~ to stimulate interest in gardening and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and plant material; ~ to assist all members in improving their gardening methods and their understanding of all phases of gardening; ~ to foster a community interest in gardening by holding shows and sales; ~ All gardeners and all thoses interested in gardening are welcome to join the club.Gardens at Shorncliff
President:
Christine Chandler, 740-9802
Vice President: June Meyer, 885-7996
Treasurer:
Monica McGrath, 740-8000 /Lorraine Blakeman (in training)
Secretary, Newsletter,& Webpage:
Rayann Alderson, 885-5850
Membership: Sandy Friedman; email: ssfriedman@dccnet.com,
Directors: Nattanya Wardel, Margaret Boyd, Elaine Clayden, Judy Marusiak, Grace Lewis
Jan 1, 2020
On our Board
May 21, 2008
MAY 2008 NEWSLETTER
Sechelt Garden Club Newsletter
May 2008
Next Meeting - MAY 26/08 – SEASIDE CENTRE – 7:00 P.M. Theme “Spring Fling Year 2” For our ‘Spring Fling’ meeting on May 26, people are asked to bring items such as decorative pots, garden artifacts, signs, books, clocks, tools- anything that will fit into a garden environment, in gently used and good condition. For our mini marketplace table - jams, jellies, chutneys, pickles, vinegars or similar condiments; also welcome are spring vegetables that we could include on the plant sale table.
Mini Show - Bobbi Kelly – ‘A Beach comer’s Paradise’ (try using a piece of driftwood).
Reports:
The rain held off for our Annual Plant Sale, we made $2000. Thank you to everyone who donated their time and their plants to this successful event.
Speaker(s) - Sandra Marriott and Pat Mills from Sunshine Coast Nursery will bring containers and plants and show us how they make planters. Elaine has donated a large Mexican clay container that Sandra will also pot up and this will be offered in a draw before the exchange.
Membership is $12.00 a person and $17.00 a couple.
A Warm welcome to our new members: Jill Bert and John Marian
News from the Committee
* Ocean Outfitters and the Boat Basin Foundation are offering an unique opportunity to visit “Cougar Annie’s Heritage Garden”, departing from Tofino each Saturday at 9:30 am aboard “The Miss B Haven”. The boat will tour through the inlets of Clayoquot Sound.
May 2008
Next Meeting - MAY 26/08 – SEASIDE CENTRE – 7:00 P.M. Theme “Spring Fling Year 2” For our ‘Spring Fling’ meeting on May 26, people are asked to bring items such as decorative pots, garden artifacts, signs, books, clocks, tools- anything that will fit into a garden environment, in gently used and good condition. For our mini marketplace table - jams, jellies, chutneys, pickles, vinegars or similar condiments; also welcome are spring vegetables that we could include on the plant sale table.
Mini Show - Bobbi Kelly – ‘A Beach comer’s Paradise’ (try using a piece of driftwood).
Reports:
The rain held off for our Annual Plant Sale, we made $2000. Thank you to everyone who donated their time and their plants to this successful event.
Speaker(s) - Sandra Marriott and Pat Mills from Sunshine Coast Nursery will bring containers and plants and show us how they make planters. Elaine has donated a large Mexican clay container that Sandra will also pot up and this will be offered in a draw before the exchange.
Membership is $12.00 a person and $17.00 a couple.
A Warm welcome to our new members: Jill Bert and John Marian
News from the Committee
* Ocean Outfitters and the Boat Basin Foundation are offering an unique opportunity to visit “Cougar Annie’s Heritage Garden”, departing from Tofino each Saturday at 9:30 am aboard “The Miss B Haven”. The boat will tour through the inlets of Clayoquot Sound.
* Members are asked when car pooling to contribute $2.00 toward the cost of gas.
* Reminder regarding the North Shore ‘Art in the Garden Tour from Saturday May 31 to June 1/08; this is a self guided tour and everyone should wear comfy shoes.
* Once again this year the Strawberry Tea will be at Pat and Charlie Comeau’s lovely garden. This year everyone is asked to make a basket from your garden fruit or flowers or vegies.
Plant Table
Thank you to everyone who brings their lovely plants to our meetings. We ask that you not bring any invasive plants and please take the plants, if they have not been purchased back home when leaving the meeting.
The clipboard will be around at meetings for members to note plants Wanted and To Share. Please be sure to put your name and phone number down.
Wanted
Euphorbia
New gardener looking for spring flowering plants
Aloe Vera
Carla Knight – 883-9807
Elaine – 885-6273
Cliff – 886-9251
To Share:
Want to trade winter jasmine for forsythia - Laurie Creak – 885-685
Evergreen hardy geraniums - Mary-Ellen – 885-5724
Garden Tips:
The District of Sechelt is sponsoring several free programs about the recently passed pesticide bylaw and using alternatives. Carole Rubin, author of "How to Get Your Lawn off Grass" and "How to Get Your Lawn and Garden off Drugs", is one of their presenters. She is an excellent speaker on the subject and will talk again on Tuesday, May 27th at 7:00 pm, check the paper for the exact location. Refreshments will be served. Carole has consulted with governments, is the past director for West Coast Environmental Law Center, past chairperson of the BC Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, and has been an organic gardener on the Sunshine Coast for years. Her talks are informative with a slide show of gardens in North America that emphasize native plants with no watering. Elizabeth
A Gardener’s Glossary
Espalier Fruit tree with a central vertical stem and pairs of branches trained horizontally in a single plane.
Cordon Fruit tree restricted to a single vertical stem usually - sometimes 2 to 4 - with fruit bearing lateral spurs.
Fan Fruit tree (or shrub) trained as a fan with several stems radiating upwards and outwards from the ground in a single plane.
These techniques, or informal variations thereof, are extremely useful for growing substantial harvests of fruit, specially apples and pears, in limited space, with dwarf trees trained against the sunny side of a fence or along horizontal wires. Superb examples of these and intricate variations can be enjoyed at the fruit and vegetable section of the UBC Botanical Gardens.
Time to:
* Stake peonies, delphiniums, bell flowers and any flowering tall perennials;
* When planters are potted use 6-8-6 fertilizer – higher compounds like 20-20-20 will cause the plant’s roots to grow too fast and become pot bound;
* Coffee filters may be used at the bottom of your pots to prevent soil from falling through the holes in the bottom;
* Feed your flowing bulbs.
“Novice gardeners grow weeds, Good gardeners grow flowers, Master gardeners grow soil.
Dates to Remember
May 26 Spring Fling
May 31 –
June 1st Art in the Garden, N.Van
June 12th Caron Gardens
June 29th Strawberry Tea
July 9th Bowen Island Garden Tour
WHERE LILACS GROW - A Poem
I LOVE to wander in the glade up near the pasture spring
Through grasses wild and overhung with fragrant purple fringe,
In dappled shade suggestive of a richly perfumed wind,
Where lilacs grow.
I cannot help but fill my arms with lush and heavy blooms
And dream away the sultriness of sleepy afternoons;
I’m loathe to leave the languor of this paradise too soon,
Where lilacs grow.
Here, tall skies festooned with cloud kiss fields of velveteen
And in these gentle hours hedged with birch and evergreen,
A brief and tender glimpse of Heaven’s glory an be seen,
Where lilacs grow.
Rachel Wallace-Oberle
* Reminder regarding the North Shore ‘Art in the Garden Tour from Saturday May 31 to June 1/08; this is a self guided tour and everyone should wear comfy shoes.
* Once again this year the Strawberry Tea will be at Pat and Charlie Comeau’s lovely garden. This year everyone is asked to make a basket from your garden fruit or flowers or vegies.
Plant Table
Thank you to everyone who brings their lovely plants to our meetings. We ask that you not bring any invasive plants and please take the plants, if they have not been purchased back home when leaving the meeting.
The clipboard will be around at meetings for members to note plants Wanted and To Share. Please be sure to put your name and phone number down.
Wanted
Euphorbia
New gardener looking for spring flowering plants
Aloe Vera
Carla Knight – 883-9807
Elaine – 885-6273
Cliff – 886-9251
To Share:
Want to trade winter jasmine for forsythia - Laurie Creak – 885-685
Evergreen hardy geraniums - Mary-Ellen – 885-5724
Garden Tips:
The District of Sechelt is sponsoring several free programs about the recently passed pesticide bylaw and using alternatives. Carole Rubin, author of "How to Get Your Lawn off Grass" and "How to Get Your Lawn and Garden off Drugs", is one of their presenters. She is an excellent speaker on the subject and will talk again on Tuesday, May 27th at 7:00 pm, check the paper for the exact location. Refreshments will be served. Carole has consulted with governments, is the past director for West Coast Environmental Law Center, past chairperson of the BC Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, and has been an organic gardener on the Sunshine Coast for years. Her talks are informative with a slide show of gardens in North America that emphasize native plants with no watering. Elizabeth
A Gardener’s Glossary
Espalier Fruit tree with a central vertical stem and pairs of branches trained horizontally in a single plane.
Cordon Fruit tree restricted to a single vertical stem usually - sometimes 2 to 4 - with fruit bearing lateral spurs.
Fan Fruit tree (or shrub) trained as a fan with several stems radiating upwards and outwards from the ground in a single plane.
These techniques, or informal variations thereof, are extremely useful for growing substantial harvests of fruit, specially apples and pears, in limited space, with dwarf trees trained against the sunny side of a fence or along horizontal wires. Superb examples of these and intricate variations can be enjoyed at the fruit and vegetable section of the UBC Botanical Gardens.
Time to:
* Stake peonies, delphiniums, bell flowers and any flowering tall perennials;
* When planters are potted use 6-8-6 fertilizer – higher compounds like 20-20-20 will cause the plant’s roots to grow too fast and become pot bound;
* Coffee filters may be used at the bottom of your pots to prevent soil from falling through the holes in the bottom;
* Feed your flowing bulbs.
“Novice gardeners grow weeds, Good gardeners grow flowers, Master gardeners grow soil.
Dates to Remember
May 26 Spring Fling
May 31 –
June 1st Art in the Garden, N.Van
June 12th Caron Gardens
June 29th Strawberry Tea
July 9th Bowen Island Garden Tour
WHERE LILACS GROW - A Poem
I LOVE to wander in the glade up near the pasture spring
Through grasses wild and overhung with fragrant purple fringe,
In dappled shade suggestive of a richly perfumed wind,
Where lilacs grow.
I cannot help but fill my arms with lush and heavy blooms
And dream away the sultriness of sleepy afternoons;
I’m loathe to leave the languor of this paradise too soon,
Where lilacs grow.
Here, tall skies festooned with cloud kiss fields of velveteen
And in these gentle hours hedged with birch and evergreen,
A brief and tender glimpse of Heaven’s glory an be seen,
Where lilacs grow.
Rachel Wallace-Oberle
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