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July 2010 Newsletter

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Meetings will now start at 6:45 pm. on the third Monday of the month, unless otherwise stated. Our Garden Tour Pictures are posted below.

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 Library

    Stetching 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

    Those of you who might be interested in a "virtual trip" to the Garden Island of Kauai, Hawaii (courtesy of Dave and Alison Colwell), go to our Members Page and click on the Link!

    Items of Interest

  • Dale 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)

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    Maple Leaf Garden Centre
    West Vancouver

    Maple Leaf Garden Centre
    North Vancouver

    A Worthwhile Reference Book (Submitted by Beth Fitzpatrick)





    One of my nicest Christmas gifts was a book titled The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual (2005); written by avid gardener and prolific garden writer Barbara Pleasant. What immediately caught my attention was the book’s description: "Essential Know-how for Keeping (not Killing!) More than 160 Indoor Plants".

    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.”






    Summer! (Swallowtail and Bird's nest)
    Photos by Anna Kirman


    Iris presentation document

    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" ?

    http://theseedsite.co.uk/common.html

    For more details on the many events going on at the VanDusen Gardens Click Here
  • 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.