No Meetings - July and August

 Enjoy your summer gardens!  We'll see you in September!

Last Chance to get your ticket for the East Vancouver Garden Tour - Sunday June 21st

 Hello, Fellow Garden Lovers!

This year's East Vancouver Garden Tour is on Father's Day, Sunday, June 21st. It's our one fundraiser for Britannia Neighbours, and the proceeds go to maintaining the Napier Square Greenway (at Napier and Commercial).

We use the money we raise to buy plants and supplies, and to pay someone to water the Greenway in the warmer/dryer months.

This year’s tour will feature about ten wonderfully diverse home gardens, both well established and newer ones.

The gardens are a mix of ornamentals, flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees. Each garden will either have the home gardener or a Master Gardener on site to chat and answer questions.

To start the tour, you check in with us and pick up your map (indicating where all the gardens are and including brief descriptions of each of them) at our usual home base at Figaro’s Garden (https://www.figarosgarden.ca) at 1896 Victoria Drive.

This year's tour will be in an area to the east and south of Figaro's and, once you get to a good starting spot (the epicentre is at about 5th and Nanaimo ), it should be comfortably walkable for most people.

How to get your tickets!

Note: As of June 2nd at 2:00 p.m., all the online tickets are sold out and there are just six still available at Figaro's!

Reminder: June 9 Meeting - Christine Allen - The Chosen Few

 Christine's Bio: 

From 1993 until 2006, Christine and her husband, Michael Kluckner, lived in Langley on a 9-acre farm, where she developed a collection of over 150 antique roses surrounded by many other plants. Since moving back to Vancouver, Christine has been creating a new garden on a 33 ft lot in the Grandview neighbourhood. This talk looks at the choices she made for a much smaller space, and her ongoing quest for a garden with year-round interest. 

We will also have Tool Sharpening! Remember to bring your tools! 

Drop your tools off 15 minutes before the meeting starts.  The van will be parked down in the parking lot at Britannia.

 BeSharp Sharpening – "Twice As Sharp For Twice As Long!"

Garden Tools

Pruners i.e. Felco $12

Bypass lopper $15

Anvil lopper $20

Garden Shears $24

Shovel $10

Axe $15

 Kitchen Knives, various prices from $12-25

 Scissors , Various prices from $15-40

 

Make sure to label your tools with asking tape.✂