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EDITOR: Iris Hossé Phillips
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TRELLIS is published ten times a year as a members' newsletter by the CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE, 777 Lawrence Avenue East, North York, Ont. M3C 1P2. Tel. No.: (416) 445-1552. Manuscripts submitted on a voluntary basis are gratefully received. No remuneration is possible.
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Editorial
May is a very busy month for gardeners: checking on winter losses, preparing the flower and vegetable beds, planting seeds, feeding the house plants and deciding on their outdoor location for the summer, and confirming the suitability of gardening plans made over the winter months. | certainly hope my back and muscles will accommodate the many hours that | will work in the garden.
| hope we will not suffer sudden frosts and prolonged wet and cold spells this month. | plan to put some plants in the garden a week earlier than last year. This may prove a foolish experiment and might be forced to return to the traditional May 24th weekend to bring my tomato plants outdoors.
One of my winter activities was the study of botanical/scientific names of plants with the aim to formalize their use in Trellis. Three books proved very useful in setting out the guiding principles: A Gardener s Dictionary of Plant Names by A.W. Smith and William T. Stearn; an informative section on botanical names in Perennials: How to Select, Grow & Enjoy by Pamela Harper and Frederick McGourty; and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants 1980, Volume 104, edited by C.D. Bricknell el alia.
Needless to say, my task was not as straightforward as | imagined. | understand genus, family name, species, variety, cultivars, and hybrids but the subject becomes more complex when using the Latin form for interspecific and intergeneric hybrids and their derivatives. Perhaps a short one-day seminar would educate me and answer my many questions.
Happy gardening!
Iris Phillips
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MEMBERS PROGRAMME
May 16, 1989, 7:30 p.m.
This meeting will be held in the Garden Hall Auditorium with seating for only 125.
Members will be required to obtain tickets. These can be picked up in person at the Centre or if this is difficult please send a stamped self-addressed envelope to receive your tickets. Members no charge. Non-Members $4.00. Registration deadline May 9th. Please, no telephone reservations.
Geoff and Audrey Williams, a husband and wife team from Vancouver and world travellers, will tell of their exciting adventures into the untamed mountains of Turkey. Their discoveries include rare iris, crocus, cyclamen and many other wildflowers.
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Gardens in Books: Part 1
by Androsace
Gardening is big business these days. In the introduction to his American Gardens (Simon and Schuster, 1988), Peter Loewer writes: Gardening in America is as diverse as its culture and doing quite well. In fact the total retail sales for American lawn and garden care in 1986 totaled an all-time high of 17.49 billion dollars. This is a comic index of the coming of age of the American garden. | was reminded of L.E.Jones story of travelling across Canada just prior to the Frist World War:
At Saskatoon we were entertained to a formal luncheon by the Mayor. He made us a speech in which he described the progress of Saskatoon in terms of dollars and bushels, dollars and tons, hundredweights and dollars. Our heads whirled. At length the catalogue ended. The Mayor paused; his voice took on another, more solemn tone. Gentlemen, | do not want you to think that we here in Saskatoon have only material interests. Far from it. We have also strong spiritual interests in this City, and to prove to you, gentlemen, the depth of those spiritual interests | have only to mention that we have at this time under construction in Saskatoon churches to the value of over fifty thousand dollars. (An Edwardian Youth, 1956)
Still, if we leave aside the unargued proposition (echoed in Carol Ottesen s The New American Garden, Macmillan, 1987) that these gardens are. . .all truly American in both their design and their philosophy , there is much of interest in the Loewer book.
One consequence of the multiplying enthusiasm for gardening is a spate of gardening books, many of them beautiful and enthralling, but quite a few that are repetitive, trivial and pedestrian. If one of these latter came your way for Christmas, don t throw it away. Just as a good squash player can employ usefully the time spent playing an inferior opponent, so there is
always something helpful to be gained from the study of the most mundane book. Reviewers often complain, about both speakers and writers on gardening matters, of irrelevance , but | find it difficult to understand what is meant by the charge. At best, it indicates an inability to respond creatively and imaginatively. A recommendation to use plants which are not hardy in my garden (which | know are not hardy because they have been winterkilled two or three times) is not wasted if | can employ other plants which will yield the same effect; and the same may be said of marble benches and statues, beyond the means of those of us with modest incomes, but which may suggest economical aesthetically-satisfying alternatives, and the appropriate situations in which to adopt them.
Most books lie somewhere between the extremes of accomplishment, but all, or almost all, beautiful and stimulating, dull and drab, are flawed by a certain cynicism concerning the intelligence of the reader. We are shown a bed of tulips, red and yellow, or white and purple, which we are urged to emulate. | might interject, in passing, that no one need really worry about these colour combinations, either if they are subtle and traditional, or if they are gruesomely incongruous, since in this latter case one simply talks about challenging contrasts , or exciting harmonies , or perhaps best of all since it so clearly situates the critic, a modern scheme bypassing the more traditional combinations. Truth is in the mouth of the speaker. The literature abounds with selfcongratulatory examples.
We admire the scene shown. But if we take the time to reflect, we know that such a combination can be at its best for a maximum of two weeks, or perhaps four, if we don t mind the white being tatty when the purple are at their best, or the purple fading when the white are perfect. So what happens for the other 48 or 50 weeks? Perhaps we send out the under-gardener to dig up the tulips, and replant them in the fall.
What the books usually do is show us another bed or another garden.
If we consider an area planted with perennials, the sleight-of-hand must be more deft. We have a bed planted with white peonies, white Oriental poppies, blue and white geraniums, pink thalictrum. It looks dare | say it? stunning; for three weeks. And then, since the plants cannot be lifted like tulip bulbs, there is a great deal of foliage for the rest of the season. Sometimes, after people have seen slides of the garden, they come to visit, and their disappointment is palpable. They expect to see all the plants in flower, no matter when they visit, and the responsibility for their disappointment is partially mine. For they have been hoodwinked by the continuous flow of colour in the slides in the same way that we suspend our disbelief before all those glossy illustrations.
Unless we plan to flood the garden with annuals, there are essentially four responses to the problem created by the transitory flowering period of most perennials and bulbs. The first, and perhaps most difficult, is interplanting; plants chosen so that their flowering periods are staggered (Jeff and Marilyn Cox, The Perennial Garden, Rodale, 1985; Mary Keen, The Garden Border Book, Capability s Books, 1987). If you are using an extensive palette of colours, this can be aesthetically very difficult (though remember the escape clauses suggested above). The careful use of linking plants silver-foliaged plants being the favourite example can excuse quite a few lapses in our colour sensibilities. Or if you are unsure, as | am, of when different colours combine successfully, you can either seek expert advice (Stephen Lacey, The Startling Jungle, Viking, 1986), or you might decide to restrict the range ( Some gardeners like to simplify the bewildering question of what to plant by deliberately imposing rules and restrictions on themselves writes Christopher Lloyd, somewhat dismissively, in The Adventurous Gardener, Allen Lane, 1983), though this, too, can require a sure touch. Last year, in a new bed Lychnis coronaria, Sidalcea malvaeflora, and Geranium psilostemon (armenum) flowered at exactly the same time, side by side. The combination was, well, unsatisfying.
Had they flowered at different times, so that the black-eyed magenta geranium could have leant across the silver foliage of the lychnis, there would have been less of a problem. Or had they been separated by some generous clumps of Scabiosa caucasica alba or tall white companulas or Platycodon grandiflorum album, there would have been fewer complaints. The generous-flowering Viola cornuta alba ( The best thing in my garden.. It flowers continuously, grows anywhere, and splits into a hundred children enthuses Robin Lane Fox, Better Gardening, R. and L., 1982) scrambled through the lychnis and the geranium, reducing but not eliminating the discord. Even my spouse, who is not much given to being overly critical, murmured that the combination was a trifle unhappy. Lychnis coronaria, used carefully, can be a wonderful plant, with dark rose flowers on silver foliage. Fred McGourty (and Pamela Harper, Perennials: How to select, grow and enjoy, HP 1985) refers to it as a tin-eye plant, but since he grew it next to the bright orange Lilium Enchantment , he is in no position to criticise. The lychnis is short-lived, but comes easily from seed.
Another problem that comes from interplanting is spottiness. The books show us the conventional riot of colour , but have you noticed how perennial beds are almost always photographed along their length, rather than straight on? That way, all the colours stand out, and you don't see the masses of foliage in between. Simple arithmetic tells the story simply. Suppose you consider a twelve week period roughly June, July, August, the height of the perennial period and you have 40 plants, each of which flowers decently for three weeks. Then, on average, ten plants are flowering at any one time, which means that thirty are not! Of course, the flowering of the plants may not be spaced out evenly over the twelve weeks, which makes the situation better at some moments but worse, obviously, at others.
A second method is to elude the problem by allowing various parts of the garden to have their glamorous moments, their concentration of colour, and then abandoning them. Gertrude Jekyll (Home and Garden and A Gardener s Testament,
Antique Collectors Club, 1982) was an early exponent of this, as Jane Brown has pointed out. One of the Munstead themes was that every part of the garden was capable of giving a virtuoso performance at distinct times of the year" (Gardens ofa Golden Afternoon, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982). So there was a Spring garden, from the first warm days. .until early May, when it was succeeded by a Hidden garden where the flowers were planned for the end of May and early June. Then came the June garden around the Hut, Miss Jekyll s version of a cottage garden, a riot of colour and perfumes. This eventually gave way to Munstead s renowned achievement, the herbaceous border, 200 feet long and 14 feet wide, backed by the 11 foot sandstone wall , a detail which recalls Henry Mitchell s comment that My garden would have suited me better if | had only brick pink walls, with Ely Cathedral at the back boundary, and a lake to the west (The Essential Earthman, Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1983), Miss Jekyll's border began to flower early in July, and continued for three months, a major task involving up to 27 gardeners. And finally, the largest proportion of the Munstead acreage just over half was devoted to wild or woodland gardening.
This gardening clearly requires a large garden with several compartments, so that you can avoid the dull ones. Most of us don t garden on this scale, so it is not an alternative genuinely open to us, though | have seen small-scale replicas which, if a bit claustrophobic, worked quite well. But at least we are reminded of the difficulty of maintaining interest in a garden all of which can be seen in a single glance from the back door. There is a Rosedale garden know which, for a brief moment, is an exquisite picture; but it is little more than that, a single picture. Of course, that might be exactly what you want if you're there when the picture is perfect, and at the cottage the rest of the time. You could be like Sir Philip Sassoon, whose garden at Port Lympne in the 1920s was maintained in flower show condition by at least thirty gardeners for the month of August while the Sassoons holidayed there (Jane Brown, The English Garden in Our Time, Antique Collectors Club, 1986).
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Every once in a while you come across a gem of a book that excites you and leads you to return to it again and again. This book, the editors state, offers you a world of pleasure and knowledge. It is a portal to the endless variation of the plant kingdom, a repository of the myths and legends that surround even the most inconspicuous plants, and an introduction to the fascinating world of herbal medicine.
The book starts with a section on Plants in Myth and Magic . It discusses the ABC s of plants, and looks briefly at the fascinating study of botany. The next section outlines the history of medicine and some of its early pioneers. The authors show how current medical science reaffirmes much of the old herbal lore and extends the horizons of
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What s New in Gardening?
by Ann Marie Van Nest
*New Flower Colours*
An Australian biotechnology company called Calgene Pacific reports that it is close to developing blue flowers in old favourites. Using recombinant DNA technology they expect to produce blue roses, gerberas, carnations and chrysanthemums for cut flowers within the next few years. The four new blue flowers are expected to produce $3.2 billion dollars a year in sales.
*Tissue Culture Update*
Situated in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia are state-of-the-art laboratories, greenhouses and nurseries that produce tissue culture plants for over ninety crops. Micro Elite Plant Laboratories specialize in high volume production of woody ornamentals, berry crops, and flowering house and garden plants. The tissue culture process assures high quality, disease-free plants. The high volume propagation methods allow some cultivars to be introduced when conventional methods do not work or are restricted through time limitations. Orchid growers have used this method of propagation for some years. They are now joined by growers of many indoor plants such as cacti, african violets, dracaena and poinsettias.
Tissue culture produces thousands of plants that are exact reproductions of their parents and can save years over the conventional methods of introducing new plants.
*New Rose Ground Covers*
An exciting collection of roses has been introduced recently that adds a different aspect to rose gardening. Meidiland Roses are specifically bred for low maintenance and mass planting. These roses are selected for their winter hardiness, disease and pest resistance. They form either upright, loose branched hedges or vigorous mounding ground covers. They smother weed growth, control erosion and tolerate poor growing conditions. The six ground
cover roses are ideal for covering slopes and banks. Repens Meidiland is the only ground cover rose that does not flower continuously throughout the summer. Red Meidiland has the added interest of hips in the winter. The six ground cover Meidiland roses are White (4in.[10cm] double pure white), Scarlet (12in.[4cm] double scarlet), Alba (white), Red (red with white centre), Repens (single white) and Pearl (pastel ochre).
In addition to the six previously mentioned roses, five additional new roses are designated for hedges. Sevillana and Pink Sevillana have blooms from June to October and colourful hips into winter. Ferdy is a rich coral pink bloom in the spring. This rose creates an informal hedge of 4 ft(1.2m) in height and 32 ft(1m) in width. Bonica, an AARS winner, flowers continuously from spring to frost and also has bright red hips. The final rose is Pink Meidiland, which has 2 in.(5cm) single pink flowers with a white center. It also blooms continuously, reaches 4 ft(1.2m) in height and has scarlet hips in the fall.
*Trends in Bedding Plants*
According to the Professional Plant Growers Association the best selling bedding plant last year was the impatiens. Geraniums from cuttings were the second best selling annual. The decline in popularity of the tomato continued as few growers listed them as a best seller. Vinca, pansies, alyssum, and petunias are gaining in popularity. The best selling bedding plants in 1976 were petunias, impatiens, tomatoes, and geraniums from cuttings. In 1988, impatiens ranked first followed by geraniums from cuttings, petunias, geraniums from seed and pansies. Tomatoes have dropped to ninth place.
The best performance ratings last year were given to impatiens, petunias, marigolds and
geraniums from cuttings. The poorest performers were asters, phlox, browallia, cabbage, and strawberries. All of these plants were susceptible to heat and drought damage last year.
With gardening as the number one outdoor leisure activity for North America, 1989 should be a strong gardening year.
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Botanical Illustration in Watercolour
The Civic Garden Centre is indeed fortunate in securing a return teaching engagement with the highly accomplised English artist and popular instructor, Dorothy Bovey.
This five-day art course, for experienced art students, will allow for concentrated practice, reinforced by frequent critique from the instructor. Output is also much greater than in any other lesson format.
A materials list will be provided upon registration and a representative from Curry s Art Supply will be here on June 5 with all supplies available at a 25% discount.
The instructor, Dorothy Bovey, is widely travelled and has served as botanical artist on expeditions in Africa, Australia and Asia.
She has received five gold medals from the Royal Horticultural Society of London for her paintings.
This course will run daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. here at the Civic Garden Centre.
Please bring suitable plant material, of your choice, as subject matter.
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Jean C. Thompson; Mary Carole Lant; Mr. David Hamilton; Mrs. Jenny Morgan; Mrs. J.B. Wilkes; Mr. Michael Armstrong; Mrs. C.M. McKeown; Mrs. Shirley Gies; Mrs. Ines Reidak; Mrs. Louise Black; Marion Moore; Lorraine Davie; Mrs. A. Macdonald Burka; Miss E. Newton; Shizuko Kadoguchi; Mrs. P. Holmes; Dr. R.G. Bell; Margarete Leiper; Mrs. Barbara Goldring; Mrs. Jennifer Higgins; Miss M. DeFreitas; Mrs. M.E. Bezoff; Mr. John Carroll; Mrs. Joyce McMeekin; Konrad Radacz; Miss Joyce MclLeaver; Marea Lyle; Mrs. W.O. Twaits; Mrs. Amy Stewart; Mr. Leslie Laking; Miss Isabel Russell; Mrs. Mary Thomas; Pleasance Crawford; Dr. G.M. Horne; Mrs. Dembeck; Mr. John Dembeck; Mr. R.W. Dunlop; Mr. D.A. Hargrove; Miss Mabel Geary; O.J. Muller; Mrs. R.J. Helmstadter; Mrs. Barbara Devitt; Mrs. Elinor Price; Mrs. J. Roberts; Mr. Jack S. Munro; Mr. D. Miller; Miss Isabel Nortrop; June Barrett; Mrs. R.M. Litch; Carol Rykert; Mrs. R.F. Hetherington; Mr. Donald Gilmour; Mrs. R. Boyd; Mrs. M.E. Wallace; Mr. David Andress; Merrill Kirkness; Mr. Grant Filson; Mrs. Marion Auburn; Agnes M. Gray; Ms. Susan Helwig; Mr. K. McFarquhar; Mrs. Ruth Pierrynowski; Mrs. T.M. Hanson; Miss M.K. Neely; Mrs. J. Watson; Eileen Girou; Mrs. C. Roussakis; Mrs. A.L. Brazier; Mrs. Ruth Beedham; Mr. Michael Stevens; Mrs. Susan Macaulay; Dr. Brian Bixley; Mr. Klaus Bindhardt; Mrs. Anne Bawden; Mr. Robert Saunders; Miss J. Kerr-Lawson; Mr. & Mrs. D. McCooeye; Ms. L. Doyle; Dr. Blair Fearon; Mrs. Keith Falkner; Mrs. L. Cosburn; Mrs. W. Cowan; Ms. V.S. Robertson; Mrs. MacNeill; A. Chisholm; Miss Ruth Bolt; Adair Hope; Mrs. W.R. Burnett; Anne Marie Van Nest; R.S. Freeman; Helen Olorodnyk; Mrs. Margaret Killey; Mr. Jim Crist; Mrs. W.E. Curry; Linda Low; Mr. Douglas Gies; Margaret Sharp; Mrs. Pamela Hallisey; Mrs. Anne L. White; Mrs. J. Watson; Mr. Howard Nichols; Lourdes Lalog; Mrs. |. Grosart; Mr. F. Staples; Mr. & Mrs. J. Dearling; M.J. Dunseath; Mrs. P.R. Hampton; Dr. M.F. Stewart; Pat Davies; Mr. J.D. Bodley; Mary Lou Watson; Mr. W. Grant Ross; Mrs. Celia Scott-Fisher; Mrs. Shirley A. Young; Mrs. Herta Mathes; Marion Warburton; Monica Chan; Mr. & Mrs. E.J. Treadway; Toshi Oikawa; Frances Gilbert; Mrs. W.B. Harris; Mrs. A. Flynn; Miss Margaret Smith; Gail Sanderson; Mrs. C.M. McKeown; Miss Mary Tournour; Mrs. Frank Middaugh; G. Varley; Mr. Paul R. Mitchell; Frances M. Weir; Pamela Gadd; Mrs. W.G. Munro; Miss Barbara Adams; Mrs. B.P. Dobbin; Mrs. J.P. Fisher; Mrs. C. MacDonald; Mrs. Margaret & Mr. Ted Sampson; Mrs. Margaret Graeb; Mr. B.T. Clarke; Mrs. J.D. Money; Mrs. Doreen Gordon; Mary C. & Tony Lant; U.S. Abrahamson; Miss Rita Brouillette; Mrs. G.G. Bishop; Mrs. J.F. Brooke; Mr. Richard Rekker; Mr. & Mrs. Datt; Mr. & Mrs. E. Caston; Mrs. J.M. Hunt; Mrs. P. Holmes.
ORGANIZATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
The Milne House Garden Club donated $7,700.
A committee of the Garden Club of Toronto, operating The Flowery raised $7,000.
Edwards Charitable Foundation gave a total of $55,999.94, a portion of which funded the Memorial lectureprogramme.
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation donated $25,000.000.
The McLean Foundation donated $10,000.00.
Darrell Kent Real Estate Ltd., Aimers Seeds, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, and York Printing, helped sponsor Through the Garden Gate.
WE WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THOSE DONORS WHOSE GENEROUS SUPPORT DURING 1988 ENABLED US TO CARRY OUT CURRENT PROGRAMMES AND SET ASIDE FUNDS FOR FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS AND PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT. OUR THANKS GO OUT TO ALL DONORS AND VOLUNTEERS WHO HELP RAISE FUNDS.
Lure Butterflies to Your Yard
The concept of butterfly gardening is not new; it is a very popular pastime in England and the United States. Winston Churchill was probably the most famous butterfly gardener of this century. The gardens of Buckingham Palace have become famous because they provide sanctuary for many rare British butterflies.
You can attract as many as 50 different types of butterflies to your yard, simply by adding a few new plants to your garden, says Landscape Designer Katherine Dunster of Guelph, Ont. The secret lies in providing a wide variety of flowers and shrubs. Shade-tolerant plants are as important as those that thrive in the sun. Annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees will all provide food for butterflies. Seeding part of a lawn with a wildflower meadow mix available now through seed catalogues and garden centres is a good way to start. Flower colour is important too; some butterflies prefer oranges, reds and yellows; others are attracted to white, purples and blues. * If you aim for a wide variety of color you will probably have greater success, she said. As a rule, simple flowers, rather than fancy double hybrids, are more attractive to butterflies. Try butterfly milkweed, arabis, sweet rocket, honesty, sweet William, white alyssum, cosmos, coreopsis, phlox, daisies, catnip, heliotrope, sea holly, asters, stocks, zinnias, yarrow, globe thistles, lavender, thyme, stonecrops, sweet woodruff, candytuft, verbena and gaillardia.
Some shrubs and small trees that are popular with many butterflies include butterfly bush, common lilac, mock orange, beauty bush, blackberry, potentilla, honeysuckle, hawthorn, weigela, sumac, rose of Sharon, spirea, privet, pussy willow and viburnum. Try growing some of these plants in masses, rather than as single specimens; the measure of your success will be the number and variety of butterflies you can lure to your yard.
Contrary to popular belief, butterflies do not harm flowers or vegetables; they usually visit to sip nectar from flowers just as honeybees do. In fact, butterflies are
excellent pollinators and can improve your fruit and vegetable production. At times, their larvae do cause damage in the garden; but most have very special food requirements such as grasses, common weeds and wildflowers. However, the cabbage white butterfly can be a pest. Its larvae eat plants in the cabbage family. If caterpillars are causing problems in your garden, it may be best to pick them off your plants; spraying is not recommended because it can harm beneficial insects as well, Dunster said.
Over the years, experiment with different color and plant combinations to find out which plants are best for your area. All that remains then, is to purchasea field guide to butterflies, and sit back and see who drops in for a visit, she said.
Newsclips, University of Guelph
BASIC FLOWER ARRANGING 4045A
Registration deadline: June 30, 1989
Fee: $40.00 members, $50.00 non-members Time: 9:45
6 week course on Wednesdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9
Instructor: Pearl Wilby Fulfill your artistic needs by taking this comprehensive course. The emphasis is on plants, both cultivated and wild, useful for flower arranging as well as for drying or preserving for future use. The first session is a lecture and demonstration showing the principles of flower arranging please bring notebook and pencil. The following sessions are practical work. Suggestions of the type of plant material that you should bring will be made at the first session. Containers and mechanics are available at the Trellis Shop.
THE CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE presenis
+RE THIRD. CGRERSE GCGARDENIENLR: CONFERBNCE
OCTOBER 14th - 15th 1989
GREAT PRIVATE GARDENS FROM CANADA ¢ ENGLAND » USA
SPEAKERS INCLUDE
BETH CHATTO ¢ CHRISTOPHER LLOYD ¢ FRANK CABOT
DAVID TARRANT ¢ GEOFFREY CHARLESWORTH ¢ NORMAN SINGER
PAMELA HARPER ¢ ALLEN PATERSON
PIERRE BOURQUE e PATRICIA THORPE
DINNERS
FRIDAY ¢ OCTOBER 13, 1989 $35.00
SATURDAY ® OCTOBER 14, 1989 $37.00
MEMBERS $100.00 NON MEMBERS $125.00
Please watch for further details in your June Trellis.
Please register me for: The conference ~ $100.00 [ $125.00 [J Friday dinner $35.00 [ Saturday dinner $37.00 [J
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Merlin s Hollow, English flower garden, off Qualified Plantsman Centre Street, Aurora. Open annually second Saturday in May, first Saturday and University Trained second Sunday in July, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Government Certified Entrance free. Plants and seeds for sale from the garden. 493-4702
For Sale
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Greenhouse Metal framework (only) Qm 16 across, 40 long assembled 274-6515
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Steeles Ave. W. (2 miles west of Highway 10) R.R. 10 Brampton L6V 3N2
Knowledgeable staff 7 days a week (9-5pm) mid-April - mid-Oct.
Over 3000 different hardy plants, alpines, dwarf conifers and shrubs, Hard y ferns, vines, groundcovers and native wildflowers
Gift Certificates $10. up (10-15-20 etc.{ by mail any time All Year
Send $2.00 for NEW (No.10) PLANT LIST by mail to above address
The Trellis Shop
Mayflower cups
Candlecups
White and silver, plastic and metal, to hold oasis and candles for candlestick flower arrangements various prices.
Soilsaver Composter
Recycle your garden and kitchen waste into break down the material which is kept moist FREE, nutritious compost in weeks. and well aerated within. Bacterial activity raises the temperature, destroying weed
Unique thermal construction and complete seeds and disease bearing organisms. ventilation system ensure complete rapid Convenient doors are provided to remove decomposition. Two easy access doors to the dark, sweet smelling compost whenever remove compost. Designed to be seen for it is needed. convenient backdoor composting. $129.99
To use, just lift off the lid to feed in organic waste such as fruit and vegetable Use your members card to receive a 10% trimmings, grass clippings, leaves and discount. weeds from the garden. Micro organisms
Civic Garden Centre Executive Committee
President: Dr. Brian Bixley
1st Vice-President: Mrs. Susan Macaulay
2nd Vice-President: Mr. Klaus Bindhardt
Treasurer: Mr. Robert Saunders
Board of Directors
For 1988: Mr. Charles Coffey, Mr. Mark Cullen, Mrs. Margaret Killey, Mrs. Susan McCoy, Mrs. Judy Samuel, Mr. Robert Saunders, Mr. Phillip'S. Tingley, Mrs. Dorothy Weir
For 1988 and 1989: Mrs. Anne Bawden, Mr. Klaus Bindhardt, Dr. Brian Bixley, Mrs. Eliane Hooft, Mrs. Heather MacKinnon, Mrs. Gail Rhynard.
For 1988, 1989 & 1990: Mrs. Cicely Bell, Mr. Stuart Gilchrist, Mr. Alan Grieve, Mr. Kenneth H.C. Laundy Mrs. Susan Macaulay, Mr. Victor Portelli of Metropolitan Toronto Parks and Ms. Laura Rapp.
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A CREATIVE LANDSCAPE BEGINS WITH A PLAN... AND JUST KEEPS GROWING!
Have your planting plan prepared by a professional landscape consultant who will visit your home. The Landscape Consultant will listen to your landscape ideas and provide a scale drawing of your new landscape that is easy to follow.
This service is available for only $50 per front and back yard ($100 for both) within our designated area. Fee is refundable with purchase of Weall and Cullen nursery plants valued at $400 or more ($100 refunded with a minimum $800 plant purchase). Ask at your nearest Weall and Cullen location for more details.
7 locations to serve you #8 opening in Etobicoke in May.
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We at the Civic Garden Centre warmly welcome new members. Join us, and you will make friends who share the same interest in gardening, the floral arts and horticulture that you do. In addition to the many exciting classes, garden shows, speakers, clubs-within-the-Centre, etc., that will be available to you, our membership fee entitles you to the following:
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