Upcoming Events
Meetings are held at 7:30pm at Beban Park Recreation Centre, 2300 Bowen Road.
Guests are welcome to attend.
September 10, 2009
- Garth Wedemire: -
Garden Tours from the ARS National Convention in Everett Washington 2009
Potluck with appetizers. Note early start at 7 PM.
October 8, 2009
- Linda Gilkeson - Life After Pesticides: Enjoy a Beautiful Garden
It is perfectly possible to have lovely yards and gardens, without resorting to pesticides. Dr. Linda Gilkeson will change how you think about dealing with insects, plant diseases and weeds with her emphasis on prevention and on low-cost, simple control methods. She will discuss preventing pest problems (including weevils and diseases that attack rhododendrons), making allies out of beneficial insects and how to use low-toxicity pesticide effectively. She will also bring her books for sale: "West Coast Gardening: Natural Insect, Weed and Disease Control" - $20 ; also "Year Around Harvest" (a winter gardening manual) which is $15.
Linda earned a Ph.D. in Entomology from McGill University in 1986, then moved to British Columbia to work for Applied Bio-Nomics Ltd., a company that produces biological controls. From 1991 to 2002 she worked for the provincial government, promoting programs to reduce and eliminate pesticide use. She was head of the provincial State of Environment Reporting Unit for the next six years. Linda has co-authored pest management training manuals for the government and organic gardening books for Rodale Press. She now publishes her own titles. Her most recent books are Year Around Harvest: Winter Gardening on the Coast and West Coast Gardening: Natural Insect, Weed and Disease Control.
As a private consultant, Linda is a regular instructor in the Master Gardener programs in BC and is busy year around giving workshops on pest management and organic gardening. Linda has served as President of the Entomological Society of Canada, the Professional Pest Management Association of BC, the Entomological Society of BC and the Salt Spring Island Garden Club. She was awarded a Queen’s Jubilee medal in 2003 and an outstanding achievement award from the Professional Pest Management Association of BC in 2005. http://www.lindagilkeson.ca/
November 12, 2009
- Jeff Hallworth “Preventing Further Introductions of Horticultural Invasive Plants”.
Jeff is an invasive plant specialist with the Biocontrol Development Program in the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. Come to learn and be surprised! Questions will be addressed after the presentation, and you will find Jeff to be extremely knowledgeable in the area of native plants and invasive threats to those natives in our region. There is no charge, and you may even win a door prize!
December 10, 2009
- Christmas Party (potluck)
Please note that it will start at 6:30 rather than 7:30 PM. Members are asked to bring donations to be auctioned off, anything from plants to gifts baskets to a bottle of wine to a bird house, or…. 10% of the proceeds will go to a local food bank. If you want to donate a plant from your garden and need help digging it out, let a member of the executive know and someone will come to help. Remember to bring some sweet or savoury finger food to share (coffee, tea and juice will be provided), your own cutlery and plate and a non-perishable item for the food bank
January 14, 2010
- June Bouchard & John Deniseger
Gardening
in Zone 2 – Northern Quebec & A walk through the rhododendron
June and John traveled to Nepal in March 2009. After spending some time
in Kathmandu, they spent 2 weeks trekking in the Himalayas. Covering 125 to
150 km, and an elevation gain of 3400 meters, their journey took them
through the Rhododendron forests of central Nepal, high up into the alpine
area of the Annapurna Basin.
February 10, 2010 [NOTE: This is a Wednesday rather than our usual Thursday night].
- Richard Hebda Facing Climate Change on our Landscape and in our Gardens
Richard Hebda is curator of Botany and Earth History at the Royal British Columbia Museum. He has written a series on Native Plants of British Columbia for the Coastal Grower. Richard is interested in botany in general but in particular the use of fossil plant remains to instruct us about broad themes such as biogeography, evolution, and history of the landscape and climate. Areas of research expertise include pollen analysis and paleobotany, classification and biology of grasses, plant ecology, ethnobotany, use of native plants in gardening and ecological restoration, as well as stratigraphy and paleoecology. The field of climate change, and its impacts on ecosystems is a recent focus. Research is carried out with the help of graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Victoria where Richard has faculty appointments in the Department of Biology, and the Schools of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the University of Victoria.
March 11, 2010
- Art Lightburn Gardens of Scotland & England
This trip included a 3 week tour around England and Scotland, traveling by train. The PowerPoint presentation will include a visit to some of the more well known gardens of South England and Southwest Scotland: Wisely, Kew, Exbury and of course, the gardens around Edinburgh, including the Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh and the Glendoick Garden Centre in Perth owned by Peter & Kenneth Cox .
April 8, 2010
- TBA
May 8 2010
- Eighteenth Annual Truss Show & Plant Sale at Beban Park Centennial Building. 10 AM - 2 PM
May 13, 2009
- TBA
- Annual General Meeting and election of officers.
Last Updated: March 3, 2010