Our February Meeting!

Thursday, February 11th, we will welcome the marvellous Claude LeDoux, Horticulture Manager for New Westminster Parks. In his talk, which he calls "Fifty Shades of Green", he will inspire and amuse us with his perspective on the unexpected pleasures of gardening!

Our January Meeting! First meeting of 2016!

NEXT MEETING, 7:00 P.M., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14th

IN THE LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE, BRITANNIA COMMUNITY CENTRE

For our first meeting of 2016, one of Grandview Garden Club's founding members, Tammyanne Matthew, will inspire us with a presentation, "Inspiration for Contemporary Urban Garden Design," showcasing some of the most Exciting Ideas, People, Plants and Gardens of the Modern World, this talk will be a sampling of new landscape architects, garden designers and their projects, new (successful) plant hybrids, current best practices for gardening in drought conditions, and innovative uses of materials and plants.

Tammyanne is a Vancouver-based landscape designer and the owner of Tammyanne ~ Specialty Garden Design & Collaboration. Her company specializes in innovative planting concepts, creating modern, ecologically functional landscapes and vibrant annual and bulb displays. 

Tammyanne's designs can be seen at some of the most prestigious homes and well-known restaurants throughout the Lower Mainland. She has designed and personally planted over 2000 containers for high-end commercial and residential clients, including Joe Fortes Restauarant's iconic rooftop patio. Her work has been featured in Grey Magazine, Western Living, and The Vancouver Sun. Tammyanne lives in Grandview with her two daughters, Anna and Sophia, Mister William the Boxer, Jane and Lucy the cats, assorted fish, honeybees and a baby parrot.

Piet Oudolf Lecture

At our November meeting, there was a mention of the upcoming lecture by Piet Oudolf to the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

To quote Wikipedia:
 
"Piet Oudolf is an influential Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movement, using bold drifts of herbaceous perennials and grasses which are chosen at least as much for their structure as for their flower colour."

The 

​lecture​

was sold out very quickly

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but 

​for those interested it​

is now available on YouTube. Here's the link:​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Vjc-FJtH0

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Posted by Christine Allen

Mystery Plant Identified

At Tuesday's meeting, Barbara brought this plant to be identified.


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Everyone loved its silvery foliage and dark velvet-red flowers, but no-one knew its name

Since then, both our speaker that evening, Anne Worrall, and I have separately gone on an internet hunt for it, and we both found it at almost the same time.

It's Pelargonium sidoides, also known as South African geranium or Kaloba.

Now we just need to find a garden centre that sells it!

Posted by Christine Allen

Upcoming Events and bits of news.

We had a terrific October meeting with special speaker Bardia Khaledi, an expert on BC native plants.
November's meeting will feature one of our own members, Anne Worrall, who will be speaking on garden design principles. She has a delightful garden herself, and I'm sure her talk will be really inspiring.
Note, too, that we won't have a December meeting.
Everyone seems to love our new space in the Learning Resources Centre under the Brit library. It's way cosier and so much easier to set up. So... it's all good!
In the meantime, here are a few upcoming events from Christine.
Cheers,
Penny

UPCOMING  EVENTS

Saturday and Sunday, October 17 - 18, 11 a.m .- 4 p.m. 

Annual Apple Festival: Apple displays, tasting, sales of fruit and trees.

Location: UBC Botanical Garden.

Admission: $4 cash only, under 12 yrs free. No dogs.

More information: www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/node/7

Saturday, October 24, 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Vancouver Hardy Plant Group: Fall Study Day

Speakers: W. Gary Smith, landscape architect, artist, author, and lecturer

on Patterns in the Landscape and Art into Landscape Design 

Rosie Atkins, former Curator of Chelsea Physic Garden, former editor of Gardens 

Illustrated on Linnaeus and the Linnean Society and Chelsea Physic Garden.

Location:H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St Vancouver.

Admission: $45 at the door. Bring your own lunch.

More information: www.vancouverhardyplant.org/fall-study-day-saturday-october-24th-2015

Sunday, October 26, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

Vancouver Mushroom Show

Displays, information tables, recipes, talks.

Location: VanDusen Botanical Garden

Admission: $3:00, under 12 yrs free. More information: www.vanmyco.com

NEXT MEETING

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

TOPIC: A FEW DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND THE DESIGN PROCESS

Basic tools to organize your garden so that it fits your needs

SPEAKER: GGC MEMBER ANNE WORRALL

Born in Switzerland, Anne has a Masters in Architecture History. At film school in London, she met her Canadian husband. After working in film and for Radio Canada for 10 years, she realized that she wanted to work closer to nature.  She completed the horticultural program at Kwantlen University in Langley and became certified as an arborist.

Inspired by the picture for a better world, she designs outdoor spaces to invite people to connect with nature through all five senses. This is her second year working for her own gardening company.

Our October meeting!

Our next meeting is October 8th, 7:00 p.m. and the speaker is Bardia Khaledi and his topic is Native Plants.

Bardia is an educator, a native-plant advocate, and a seed-saver. He currently heads the Seedsavers group at VanDusen Botanical Garden. Bardia sees gardening, and the creation of gardens, as an exercise of symbiotic co-existence with nature. His gardening philosophy focuses on diverse groupings of plants that are valuable for their flowers, seeds, and fruits because they attract wildlife and create self-sustaining ecosystems that nourish us. 

Find out more about Bardia at his beautiful and informative website: http://plantprofusion.com/

Note, also, that we now meet in the Britannia Community Centre’s LRC (the Learning Resources Centre), which is under the VPL library branch. You enter the meeting room from the south side of the library building. 

Our meetings are on the second Thursday of the month, 7:00 p.m.

We hope to see you there!

Upcoming Events!

Pt. Grey Chrysanthemum Association — Early Chrysanthemum Show
Saturday, September 12, 12–4 pm & Sunday, September 13, 10 am–4 pm
Location: Floral Hall, VanDusen Botanical Garden  

Admission: Free 

Alpine Garden Club of BC — Fall Plant Sale 
Saturday, September 19, 12 pm–4 pm. 

Location: Floral Hall, VanDusen Botanical Garden
Admission: Free

Dried Flower Arrangers' Sale
Friday, September 25, 2–4 pm
Saturday, September 26 and Sunday,  September 27, 10 am–4pm  

Sale of dried flower topiaries, centrepieces, wreaths, bouquets and arrangements created with materials grown at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

Location: HSBC Arrival Hall in the Visitor Centre, VanDusen Botanical Garden
Admission: Free

Annual Compost, Soil and Bulb Sale
Saturday, September 26, 10 am–3 pm   

Bulb Location: Entrance Plaza off the parking lot

Compost, Soil and Manure Location: West end of VanDusen parking lot off 37th Avenue.

Products: 
Red Label Topsoil from high grade organics

Brown Label Manure: essential organic mix 

Compost from Harvest Power

Price: $5 per bag (about 20 litres / 20 lbs.)

PRE-­ORDERS: Pre-Order at http://www.heavyethics.com/VanDusen 
Pick up for Pre-­orders (west end of the VanDusen parking lot):
Wednesday Sept. 23rd, 10 am–12
Thursday Sept. 24th, 12–2 pm
Friday Sept. 25th, 10 am–12