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October1991
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Civic Garden Centre
GENERAL INFORMATION
Vol. 18, No. 9
EDITOR: Iris Hossé Phillips
ADVERTISING INFO: (416) 445-1552
Registered charity number 0228114-56 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.
Lead time for inclusion of articles and advertising material is six weeks: manuscripts and material must be received by the 15th of the month to insure publication. For example, material received by October 15 will be included in the December issue of Trellis.Opinions expressed within do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre.
The Centre is located in Edwards Gardens, at Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue East. It is a non-profit, volunteer-based gardening, floral arts, and horticultural information organization with open membership.
SUMMER OPERATING HOURS
The Civic Garden Centre is open from April 1st to October 31st.
Weekdays: 9:30-5:00 p.m. Weekends: Noon - 5:00 p.m.
WINTER OPERATING HOURS
The Civic Garden Centre is open from November 1st to March 31st. Weekdays: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Weekends & Holidays: Noon - 4:00 p.m.
L.ditorial
One of the pleasures of being the editor of Trellis is my access to horticultural information. Being an organic vegetable gardener, | was interested in the results of research into non-toxic pesticides recently published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Aphids, whiteflies, and spider mites can be controlled by spraying vegetables with a cooking oil mix. To make the spray, add one tablespoon of dishwashing detergent to one cup of cooking oil (soybean oil was used in the USDA trials) then mix one to three teaspoons of the oil/detergent concentrate with one cup of water. Spray directly on plants every ten days. The spray may give foliage burn to red cabbage and cauliflower. -
The Centre is a very busy place and excitement is in the air over the upcoming Fourth Great Gardening Conference, October 18 to 20. | hope to see many members at the conference.
Iris Phillips
Don t forget to pick up a course brochure or refer to the September issue of Trellis. Take a course at the Centre this Fall.
In the Library
by Pamela MacKenzie Librarian
Many very good new books have been coming into the library in recent weeks. Here are a few of them which have ecarmarked as possible donations. The selection will be on display in the library, during October. To donate a book, you can come into the library, or do it by telephone. Call 445-1552 and ask for the library, where the stalf will be pleased to help you. We accept Visa and Mastercard: tax receipts are issued.
Rees. Yvonne. The art of balcony gardening, 1991. $25.00.
Ingwerson. Will. Alpines, 1991. $70.75. McEwan, Currier. The Japanese iris, 1990. $34.00.
Sheen, Joanna. Dried flower gardening, 1994 $22.00.
Wakjer, Theodore D. Planting desigr, 2nd ed. 1991. $34.00.
Nussbaum, Hedda. Plants do amazing things. 1977. $10.00.
Raymond, Dick. Down-to-earth gardening for the '90s: vegetables and herbs, rev. ed. 1991. $24.00.
Miller, R.W. and Donahue, R.L. Soils: an introduction to soils and plant growth; 6th ed. 1991. $67.25.
Taylor s guide to water-saving gardening, 1990 $14.95.
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Creating Garden Gold. . . Compost!
by Anne Marie Van Nest
Compost is the most valuable asset in the garden. Without its nutritive and soil-building abilities the most treasured plant in the garden will not reach its full potential. Good rich compost is the key to successful gardening. Compost, the great recycler, is more than just a source of fertilizer. It is more than just a soil conditioner. It increases the water holding ability of the soil, it helps break down clay soils, it adds organic matter to sandy soils, it slows erosion, improves aeration, moderates toxins, warms the soil in the spring and fall, and has been occurring since life first began on planet earth.
Despite the hopeful wishes of some gardeners, compost rarely can be achieved in 14 days. Fourteen weeks may also be an optimistic time. Composting requires patience and an understanding of the principles involved. The proportion of the ingredients is very important. The green materials (grass clippings, kitchen waste, hair, non-fruiting weeds) are full of nitrogen and should be used in proportion with the brown materials (shredded leaves, coffee grounds, sawdust, pine needles, straw) which are high in carbon. The ideal ratio is 30:1 carbon to nitrogen. This means that if the compost is predominantly filled with leaves and few grass clippings or kitchen scraps, the pile will be s-l-ow to decompose.
Activators are special ingredients added to the compost pile. They are as important as baking powder is to a cake. Activators can be many different materials: blood meal, nitrogen rich fertilizers, compost, soil, bacterial activators, or well-rotted manures. Activators should be layered throughout the pile to work effectively.
Some of the more uncommon items that can be composted in moderation are bread, coffee grounds and paper filters, crushed egg shells, tea bags, pond weeds, feathers, wine wastes, peanut shells, natural rope, wood ash (not charcoal) or wool rags. The following materials should not be used unless an anaerobic composter is being used such as The Green Cone:
Meat or fish scraps and bones
Salad dressing, mayonnaise, sour cream, yogurt, milk, cheese
Vegetable oil
Peanut butter
Lard
The following can ceate future problems if composted:;
Crabgrass or plants that spread by underground roots
Pet manures
Disease or insect infested plants
Thick, tough leaves such as rhododendrons
Large pieces of wood
Heavy cardboard
Inorganic pesticide treated lawns, flower or vegetable plants have the potential to contaminate the compost if they are used soon after being sprayed.
Speeding up composting is an easier task in principle than in practice. Basically, it involves increasing the surface area of the material being composted. The smaller the pieces the better for faster decomposition. In fact shredding, chopping, chipping or grinding everything will produce fast
compost. But, few people have the patience to put all their kitchen scraps through a blender and all the garden waste through a shredder. Try to create small pieces: maybe a machete would be helpful. Another helpful hint is to create many different layers in the compost pile and include an activator in the layer. Watering is another important consideration to speed up the decomposition of the pile. Too much water and your pile switches to anaerobic decomposition and smells. Too little water and the pile slows down because the bacteria needs moisture to survive. The right moisture consistency for the pile should be that of a " wrung out sponge. Speeding up the action of the compost, so far involved shredding the ingredients and monitoring moisture. The next suggestion is the one avoided by many. Turning the pile will mix oxygen with the ingredients and let ammonia gas escape. Aeration is the key to the 14 day composters which are large drums that are cranked daily. Turning the compost is a little tricky in some of the commercially made units. There is little room to maneuver a fork adequately. For these units, a compost tool has been developed. It is a long-handled tool that is
pushed into the compost. The metal flaps at the bottom stir and mix the compost as the tool is raised. To avoid turning the compost, some gardeners have created means to get air circulation to the centre of the pile. Home made tubes of chicken wire or commercially purchased aerators help get air to the inner area of the pile. Air circulation must be unobstructed on most sides of the compost pile for best results.
Composting doesn't have to exclude apartment gardeners. Some of the commercial units that fit into a strong plastic bag or garbage can are ideal for the balcony. Vermiculture or worm composting is another way to compost indoors. The red wiggler worms are specially selected for their ability to consume loads of kitchen scraps. They are an indoor worm that will breakdown vegetable and fruit peels, coffee grounds, cheese, bread and other organic wastes while producing rich castings. Very unobstrusive, the red wigglers are an alternative way to recycling wastes.
Composting helps the environment, reduces wastes and is gold in the garden. Go for it.
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VOLUNTEER CORNER
by Carolyn Dalgarno Volunteer Co-ordinator
Mistletoe Magic is the largest, most volunteer-intensive event undertaken by the Civic Garden Centre in the course of a year. We require approximately 120 volunteers to continue to make this event the success it has become. We're proud that we have been able to make this craft show the best in Toronto and hope you'll volunteer to be part of our winning team. The dates of the show are from Thursday, Nov. 7th to Saturday, Nov. 9th. We are open both Thursday and Friday evenings this year. Help is also needed for the actual setup of the show from Monday to Wednesday.
Monday, Nov. 4 and Tuesday, Nov. 5th - Morning or afternoon
Join the staging committee to help install the show.
Wednesday, Nov. 6th - Morning or afternoon
Help with signage, welcoming and assisting exhibitors or last minute staging details.
For the duration of the show we need front door ticket sellers, cashiers, raffle sales, front door greeters, general ticket sellers, help in the cafe, floaters, and volunteers to sell plants.
Thursday, Nov. 7 - Opening Day Shifts: 10am. -2 pm. 2 p.m. -6 pm. 6 pm. -9 pm.
Friday, Nov. 8 Shifts: 10 am. -2 p.m. 2p.m. -6 pm. 6 pm.-9pm.
Saturday, Nov. 9 Shifts: 10am.-2pm. 2p.m.-5pm.
If you are a person who works during the day but who would still like to help, please try to volunteer for a shift Thursday or Friday evening or Saturday.
We need each and every one of you. It's the volunteer presence that gives this show a very special character. The exhibitors and public appreciate this unique touch. This service distinguishes us from other craft shows. You can help make the difference! Please call Carolyn Dalgarmo or Marilyn King at 445-1552.
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Stalking the Comeback of the Wild Lupine
Efforts to re-establish the wild lupine, Lupinus perennis, in Pinery Provincial Park near Grand Bend, Ont., could help to bring back the endangered Karner Blue butterfly. The lupine is the sole larval food plant for the butterfly.
University of Guelph geography professor Kiyoko Miyanishi and graduate student Anna Boyonoski are studying the population dynamics of lupines to provide information on appropriate strategies for increasing lupine populations in the park.
The once-abundant wild lupine is now found in only a few sparse sites in the park. It generally grows in dry, open habitats such as oak savannas in eastern North America, which range from Georgia to Owen Sound, Ont.
The butterfly s decline has coincided with the lupine s decline in southern Ontario. Populations of the Karner Blue butterfly are in trouble throughout North America, and the two remaining Canadian populations in Port Franks and St. Williams, Ont., are considered endangered. The pale blue butterfly with a one-inch wing span disappeared from the Pinery in the early 1980s.
There is a good chance of the butterfly coming back to the Pinery if we can establish large enough lupine populations in the park, Miyanishi says.
Transplanting seedlings was tried, but was a total failure, says Boyonoski. Since 1985, thousands of lupines have been planted in the park each year, but have had a low success rate. Although the seeds germinate well, the plants die over the summer. A number of factors overgrazing
by deer, drought, competition from other plants and the park s tree-planting and firesuppression policy have probably contributed to the lupine s decline, she says.
Lupines grow in poor soils and are nitrogenfixing plants, which means they build up nitrogen in the soil. They are prone to natural cycles and have special relationships with other species, says Terry Crabe, the park s visitor services and resource management specialist. Ants, for example, are important for spreading lupine seeds.
Boyonoski's goal is to find out what is causing the plants to die and to make recommendations on lupine site plantings and treatments. So far, prescribed burnings in the park have had the most beneiicial effect on the lupine.
Fire is a natural aspect of the oak savanna environment, which makes up half of the 2,500-hectare park, says Miyanishi. A savanna is a grassland with scattered trees and shrubs providing less than 50-per-cent canopy cover. Burning helps prevent canopy closure by the trees and helps maintain diversity of herbaceous species. The park is currently trying to restore the savanna, through burnings and tree cutting.
Such habitat manipulatiori measures in protected areas like the Pinery, the Karner Blue sanctuary south of the Pinery and St. Williams will be the only hope for the lupines and the Karner Blue butterfly in Ontario, because populaticns of both specis in unprotected areas are under threat by development.
Courtesy of Media Relations, University of Guelph.
Friday, October 18th to Sunday, October 20th 1991
The Edwards Foundation Lecture
Monday, October 7th
13000,
The Honourable Helen Dillon
A Garden Designer, writer and lecturer Jfrom Dublin
IN AN IRISH GARDEN
The story of the making of a small garden in Ireiand at The Civic Garden Centre 777 Lawrence Avenue East (in Edwards s Gardens) North York M3C 1P2
* Free Parking
* Refreshments
* No Admission Charge
THE TURTLE AND THE HARE
Registration deadline: September 30, 1991 1 day
Fee: $26.65 Members, $37.45 Non-members
BASKETRY BASICS
Registration deadline: October 1, 1991
Fee: $53.50 Members, $64.20 Non-members
CREATING A WOODLAND WILDFLOWER GARDEN
Registration deadline: September 30, 1991
Fee: $21.40 Members, $32.10 Non-members
TIME OUT FOR ART
Registration deadline: October 2, 1991
Fee: $64.20 Members, $74.90 Non-members
Toronto Gesneriad Society - Meeting
Southern Ontario Orchid Society - Meeting
The EDWARDS FOUNDATION LECTURE
Speaker: The Honourable Helen Dillon, In an Irish Garden"
CARDS FOR GREETINGS 1 day
Registration deadline: October 4, 1991
Fee: $28.89 Members $39.59 Non-members
Southern Ontario Orchid Society - Newcomers Meeting
Mycological Society of Toronto, Speaker Martin Beech, Shooting Stars and Gelatinous Fungi
North Toronto Horticultural Society - Meeting
Speaker Flavia Redelmeier, The Victorians and their gardens
Ikebana International Chapter 208 - Meeting
Canadian Rose Society - Meeting
INTERIOR PLANTSCAPING
Registration deadline: October 8, 1991
Fee: $39.59 Members, $50.29 Non-members
Toronto Bonsai Society - SHOW
Toronto Bonsai Society - SHOW
Ontario Rock Garden Society - AUCTION & DRAW
Harvey Wrightman - Water in the Rock Garden
Toronto Bonsai Society - SHOW
Followed by General Meeting
Toronto Cactus & Succulent Club - Meeting
GARDENING AT THE WATER'S EDGE
Registration deadline: October 11, 1991
Fee: $24.08 Members, $34.78 Non-members
LANDSCAPING THE CITY LOT
Registration deadline: October 14, 1991
Fee: $21.40 Members, $32.10 Non-members CLEMATIS & CLIMBERS
Registration deadline: October 15, 1991
Fee: $24.08 Members, $34.78 Non-members
THE FOURTH GREAT GARDENING CONFERENCE
Fee: $160.50 Members, $187.25 Non-members
Dinner fee: Friday, $39.50; Saturday, $40.50
DESIGNING GARDENS FOR CONTEMPLATION
with Julie Moir Messervy 1 day
Registration deadline: October 15, 1991
Fee: $133.75 Members, $160.50 Non-members
THE ART OF CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING
Registration deadline: October 18, 1991
Fee: $80.25 Members, $90.95 Non-members
Evening 12-5pm 1:30 pm 12-5pm 7:30 pm 7-10 pm 7:30 - 9:30 pm 7-10 pm 9-5pm 1:30 - 4:.00 pm
Registration deadline: October 18, 1991
Fee: $24.08 Members, $34.78 Non-members
23 TREES IN THE CITY LOT 1 evening 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Registration deadline: October 21, 1991
Fee: $21.40 Members, $32.10 Non-members
27 CARDS FOR GREETINGS
Registration deadline: October 24, 1991
Fee: $28.89 Members, $39.59 Members
York Rose and Garden Society - Meeting 2-4pm
28 BASIC SOGETSU
Registration deadline: October 24, 1991
Fee: $53.50 Members, $64.20 Non-Members
INTERMEDIATE SOGETSU 6 weeks 1-3pm
Registration deadline: October 24, 1991
Fee: $53.50 Members, $64.20 Non-Members THE ART OF PRESERVING PLANT MATERIAL
Registration deadline: October 25, 1991
Fee: $26.75 Members, $37.45 Non-members
30 SHRUBS AND HEDGES FOR CITY LOTS 1 evening 7:30 - 9:30pm
Registration deadline: October 28, 1991
Fee: $21.40 Members, $32.10 Non-members
GST included.
Z!oin us on Saturday, October 26, 1991
Floral Hall, The Civic Garden Centre Edwards Gardens
z'{ ; g;/f , 777 Lawrence Avenue East at Leslie Street Don Mills, Ontario
Preview: 6:30 p.m.
Silent Auction : 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10.00 pre-sale at ere s your chance to bid on The POtte.rY Shop, one-of-a-kind handcrafted clay and glass 140 Yorkville Avenue objects by FUSION members. $12.00 at the door
Proceeds go to FUSION: The Ontario Clay and Glass Association. One dollar of each ticket sold will be donated to the Ontario Crafts Council Building Fund. The support of the government of Ontario and the Ministry of Culture and Communications and the Ontario Arts Council is acknowledged. FUSION is a registered not-for-profit charitable organization. FREE PARKING ¢ DOOR PRIZES
Squandering Our Urban Forests Wealth
by William B. Granger
Last year on Thanksgiving Sundey. my six year-old nephew and three year-old second cousin finally got on everyone's neives after dinner, and so | took them outside to play while the dishes got done. We started with a football but these little guys were not well matched as opponents; monkey-in-themiddle seemed cruel to the younger and without effort to the older. Soon we hit on the idea of raking leaves, and, having found (and fought over) the only rake in the garage, the kids spent over two hours happily piling up bright red and yellow sugar maple leaves and jumping into them. When they were finally exhausted, | pushed the leaves into the old shrub beds lining the yard, where they will happily rot away by next spring. So much for leaf-raking this season in the country.
By contrast, my neighbours in the city have been fastidious this fall about removing every single leaf (sometimes as they fall) from their pristine manicured lawns and gardens. Usually this involves noisy, dirty leaf blowers pushed along by hired gardeners, and all of the leaves are packed into plastic bags and left out at the curb for pick-up by the garbage men. Perhaps it does happen, but | have never seen a kid pile up leaves to jump in anywhere near my city home. Likewise, most of my neighbours have missed the joy of raking leaves, chatting over the hedge, having coffee with a neighbour while leaning on a rake. They are, in my opinion, much poorer for having lost touch with the most basic passage of the seasons in Canada.
Although | do rake, all of the leaves that fall from several dozen mature trees stay on my property. | even rake them in from the street and shepherd this potential humus material into my shrub beds and flower borders. Any leaves left over after the beds are well
covered for the winter are carried out back of the garage to compost. now have five bins, one of which is a new yuppified plastic model; the other four are discarded garbage cans with holes punched in the bottom. The soil in my gardens is wonderful as a result of several year's leaf mulch, dug in each spring and added through the summer as compost top-dressing. Fireplace ashes go in the compost too, along with all biodegradable kitchen scraps. Many neighbours stop by to ask about the vast volume of flowers produced by this rich soil and do have to admit that the secret is purely natural.
A collective fascination with neat-and-clean lawns in cities can be seen from Victoria to Moncton. While our landfills swell with unneeded garbage, our gardens are slowly starving. To replace the lost nutrients, we rush out to garden centres each spring to buy fertilizers, topsoil, composted manure and designer mulches, all in the name of keeping our cities green . The billions of gallons of water we pour on our green patches during summer droughts could supply entire third world countries with potable drinking water, and yet we continue to throw away the one free material that reduces our soils need for constant watering. Fifty percent humus content added to most garden soil will reduce the watering requirement by as much as seventy-five percent! In addition, leaf mulch compost (remember the old garbage cans?) applied over the surface of a vegetable or flower garden in July will hold in ground water and reduce the soil temperature.
Squandering of our urban forest leaves is practised at the highest levels. In Regina last autumn, stopped by the Legislative Buildings and marvelled at a natural woodland between the Legislature and
Albert Street, planted as an epitaph to a former Saskatchewan premier. In the middle of the wood, a rock with Frost's wonderful poem The Road less Travelled reminds visitors that:
Two paths diverged, and I, | took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.
Around Frost's Yellow Wood, the grounds crew were busy raking up leaves and carting the bagged litter away in trucks, hopefully to a compost pile, but likey not. Many Canadian municipalities do operate leaf-composts, but many leaves never get routed there. Bagging is often the culprit.
In Ontario our Legislative Assembly grounds are a former oak forest, but the forest floor and entire middle storey shrub and young tree growth were expunged years ago. No leaves remain longer than several days on the ground once they land on the perfect turfgrass that has replaced our indigenous ground cover blanket of trillium, wake robin, spring beauty, bloodroot, violets, wild leek, hepatica, jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple. A few unfortunate wildflower specimens have been plucked from the wild and transplanted to a pathetic patch of bare soil near the east side of Queen s Park Crescent, but these plants are left without a leafy cover all winter and barely survive, let alone thrive.
The landscape-in-bondage situation is similar in our National Capital parks and in every other Canadian city | have visited. Trees-ingrass parks predominate, dotted with clipped shrubs and ordered flower beds, and these could be in Washington, London, Frankfurt or Montreal. Even the notion of regional landscape diversity has been sanitized beyond recognition.
However, a small but growing number of gardeners are turning away from green revolution methods of curtailing our gardens to diminished numbers of species and truncated semblances of what our plant communities look like in the wild (or even in the country).
The largest group is the Canadian Wildflower Society, established in 1985 to
promote the cultivation and preservation of native flora, which now has a steady membership of 3500 from across the country. Some municipalities have allowed small corners of remote parkland to revert back to natural regeneration, or have planted sapling trees and shrubs INto forner turfgrass areas to encourage wildlife habitat, erosion control, landscape diversity or simply to cut costs. Wildflowers have even resurfaced in a few of these remnant woodlots allowed to revert to a wild state, such as at Driftwood Community Centre in North York, Ontario, in the maligned JaneFinch Community. This past spring, in a woodlot replanted eight years ago by community volunteers, spring beauty and bloodroot raised their blooms above the gently decomposing duff layer of leaves and twigs left by the parks staff to protect the roots of the trees and provide nutrition to all of the native plants that colour our indigenous landscapes. This autumn, the bright red and orange leaves of five foot tall naturally-regenerated oak saplings, stood over this fall's contribution of topsail rejuvenation. All of this process, of course, would be impossible to achieve in turfgrass regime.
In my neighbourhood, the bags mount at the curb. The impatiens have all died in hard November frost, and will likely be raked or machine-blown away with the rest of nature s thermal blanket. A shame. It's time for all of us to revert back to the road less travelled. In terms of our City landscapes and landfills, that will make all the difference.
William B. Granger is Course Director of Conservation and Urbanization at Atkinson College, York University.
ART IN THE LINK
October 8 - 23, 1991
Andrew Gardiner
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DATE: October 29, 1991
TIMIE: 7:15 to 9:00 PM PLACE: Civic Garden Centre
Presented by IVMIONEY CONCEPTS
Seating is limited - for reservations \. Call 481-2127 J
Toronto s Finest Christmas Sale
Nov. 7, 8, and 9th
Mistletoe Magic, the Civic Garden Centre s exciting craft show featuring distinctive work by more than 60 carefully chosen artisans will be held Nov. 7, 8, and 9th. This year, the show will be open both Thursday and Friday evenings. Every year, the Christmas elves search throughout Ontario to bring you the best and most varied selection of exhibitors with an emphasis on what's new. Over the past year, we have found many exceptional artisans and invited them to join our show. Our reputation has travelled quickly through the craft community and a growing number consider Mistletoe Magic the best showcase for their work. Each year, we move a little closer to our goal of becoming, not the biggest, but the best pre-Christmas show in Toronto.
Some of the items available are toys, jewellery, gourmet chocolates, holiday food items, women and children s clothing, pottery, glass, art, sculpture, Christmas accessories and much, much more. This year, Milne House will again sell popular dried material and home baking. The Garden Club of Toronto has taken a separate booth which will feature Christmas items, many of which were designed for the Club s Christmas house tour last year. In addition, the front lobby will be turned into a wonderful Christmas fantasy with five designer Christmas trees showing the very latest Christmas decorations of which a selection will be for sale. The Centre's own craft area, Santa's Magic Sack, will have small gifts and many Christmas items, lovingly produced by the volunteers. The cafe provides a menu for morning coffee, lunch, afternoon tea and a light dinner to add to your shopping comfort.
A visit to Mistletoe Magic can completely prepare you for the holiday season ahead. Even the most discriminating shopper will find decorations, gifts and Christmas accessories to fill every need. This show is the largest fundraising event of the year for the Civic Garden Centre. Plan to attend, bring your friends and urge everyone to come. Your enthusiasm has helped this show grow in size and content during the last few years. We need your continued support.
You are invited to attend. . .
Mistletoe Magic
Time: Nov. 7 10a.m. -9p.m. Nov. 8 10a.m. -9p.m. Nov. 9 10a.m. -5p.m.
Place: The Civic Garden Centre
777 Lawrence Avenue East (located in Edwards Gardens)
Admission: $4
Designing Gardens for Contemplation
with Julie Moir Messervy Monday, October 21, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
A garden for contemplation is a place in which to feel the quiet joy of reverie and reflection. Julie Moir Messervy will heip students explore the creation of such imaginative but palpable dream worlds by using their own personal experiences and then examining these with reference to design problems and basic elements.
intended for gardeners, designers, artists and reflective souls alike, this course will address which archetypar landscapes foster contemplation; what are the design elements of these gardens; and how does a designer choreograph emotion, sensory awareness, spiritual depth and symoolic meaning in a garden? Lectures and class discussions will alternate with short design exercises. This workshop is suitable for the amateur and for the professional. A list of required materials will be available on registration.
Julie Moir Messervy is a landscape design consultant, teacher, and author of Contemplative Gardens. Julie has taught at Harvard, Radcliffe and MIT School of Architecture and has lectured at the Arnold Arboretum, and the New York Botanical Society.
Please register me for, Designing Gardens for Contemplation with Julie Moir Messervy. Registration deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 1991.
REGISTRATION FORM IS ON PAGE 15.
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CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE SPECIAL PROGRAMS
The Civic Garden Centre is offering this new registration form to retrieve the special programme registration. We hope to cut down on space now used for this in Trellis leaving more room, in the tuture, for articles of interest. Registration may also be completed by phone using either VISA or Mastercard. Should you have any questions regarding registration, please don t hesitate to call us at 445-1552.
REGISTRATION FORM
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TREELLIS FALL BULBS HAVE ARRIVED!
BULB BOOKS IN STOCK
Taylors Guide to Bulbs
$22.95
Taylor guides will take you into the world of bulbs with lavish colour photographs, full descriptive information, and comprehensive advice from the experts. Take this handy guide along when you purchase your fall bulbs.
Adventures With Hardy Bulbs $17.95
Enter the magical world of bulbs with Louise Beebe Wilder as your teacher. You will find much inspiration in this fine book. Good descriptive detail of each bulb, its good points and bad, and advice on care are included. This book has good chapters on bulbs for Rock Gardening and Naturalizing.
Random House Book Of Bulbs $29.95
Contains full colour photographs plus excellent descriptions of over 1000 flowering bulbs. The experienced gardener will value and enjoy this book with its many unusual bulbs.
Executive Committee
President: Mrs. Susan Macaulay
Treasurer: Mr. Peter Lewis
Member: Mrs. Cicely Bell
Member: Mrs. Mary Ann Brinckman
Member: Mrs. Bayla Gross
Member: Mr. Kenneth Laundy
Board of Directors
For 1991: Dr. Brian Bixley, Mrs. Georgina Cannon, Mrs. Martha Finkelstein, Mr. Bill Granger, Mrs. Bayla Gross, Mr. Kenneth Laundy, Mrs. Ruth MacKneson.
For 1991-1992: Mrs. Mary Anne Brinckman, Mrs. Luba Hussel, Mrs. Susan Macaulay, Mrs. Robin Wilson.
For 1991, 1992 and 1993: Mrs. Cicely Bell, Mrs. Wendy Lawson, Mr. Peter Lewis, Mrs. Mary Mills, Ms. Laura Rapp. Representative of Metropolitan Toronto Parks and Property, Mr. Victor Portelli.
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May we invite you to join us?
The Civic Garden Centre warmly welcomes 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:
e Annual subscription to members newsletter
® Free borrowing privileges from one of e Discounts on courses, lectures Canada s finest horticultural libraries and workshops . . .
¢ 10% discount on purchases over $10.00 e adndivalboni R at the Trellis Shop. (Discount not availaple ~ ® Free Admission to the on sale items and some books.) Members Programmes
e Special local and international
® Access and discounts at special Garden Tours members day plant sales
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
Mail to:
The Civic Garden Centre 777 Lawrence Avenue East North York, Ontario, M3C 1P2
New Member OJ
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Single Membership $2500 .i
Family Membership SRINE 8 RN
Gift Membership
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