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Messages: To stop scrolling, hold mouse down on text. To restart let mouse up. Garden Tour 2010 Slide Shows
(Note: Pass your cursor over the top of the 1st. Slide Show to see a caption. For Anna's show, each caption shows the last name of the host garden, the area, her last name and the slide #.) Garden Tour 2010 (Anna Kirman) Garden Tour 2010 (Dave Colwell) Garden Tour 2010...assorted (Jessica Coulter -Brown & Friends) Garden Tour 2010...assorted (Alison Colwell) Many thanks to the Host Garden Owners for their generous exhibitions; it was a very rewarding day. Stretching for Gardening ...Details of Monday 21st June Presentation at The Squamish LibraryStetching for Gardening: Heidi Drygas gave us all a comprehensive illustrated talk on the various excercises we can do to make our gardening safer and free from injury.This was followed by some group practise. For information on all our future events and meetings for the coming year Click Here
Items of InterestDale Embree's Raised Beds Show "Early Spring 2009" (Ellen Grant) "Onset of Spring" (Beth Fitzpatrick) Non Invasive Bamboos Garden Tour 2009 (Greg Wint)(For more pictures: www.gregwint.com) Garden Tour 2009 (Dave Colwell) Festival of Light (Anna Kirman) Gardening Calendar
A Worthwhile Reference Book (Submitted by Beth Fitzpatrick)
The 350 page book is lavishly illustrated and very readable. The introduction ("How Houseplants Earn their Keep") includes a plant identification guide. The following three sections discuss Blooming Houseplants, Foliage Houseplants and finally Houseplant Care. Barbara promises that if you follow her advice “you’ll never kill another houseplant.” Photos by Anna Kirman
Check out this link for Ellen's Fall pictures Click Here I often have discussions with fellow gardeners about the use of common names verses latin names. Here is an interesting link on this topic (Dave Colwell)....By the way, what do you know about "Brassolaeliocattleya" ?
Have fun here: Garden Fun.
Or Gardening Trivia?
"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" Plant of the week:...Click Here This site features different plants from week to week (mostly indoor species in our area). Also you can call up archived plants of the week...All in all, a great site to visit. |