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AFRICAN VIOLETS

JEAN'S TIPS ON HOW TO GROW BEAUTIFUL HEALTHY AFRICAN VIOLETS: A) How African Violets are potted is important: Put them in a pot with holes in the bottom - plain 4 inch nursery pots for small...
Okanagan February 18, 2012 | Read more >>

Plant Speak: THE YELLOW LEAF

Master Gardeners answer a lot of questions of the “what’s wrong with my …” variety.  A typical exchange begins “My Hosta leaves are yellow.  What can I do?...
Victoria February 9, 2012 | Read more >>

ARE YOU PRACTICING S.M.A.R.T. GARDENING?

Many of us retreat to the garden during the growing season, finding in its toil a pleasure that connects us to the earth. Tending the rich soil, planting seeds, and placing new plants into our garden...
February 9, 2012 | Read more >>

Congratulations to our most recent Basic Training Graduates!

Vancouver Chapter is thrilled to congratulate 39 of its most recent graduates of the Basic Training Program A total of 39 students graduated (2009 - 1, 2010 - 30, 2011 - 8) Pictured here are the...
Vancouver January 31, 2012 | Read more >>

BULBS AND BOTANISTS

Visitors to VanDusen Botanical Garden and the public gardens of the West Coast may think of the glorious month of April as tulip season. For the professional gardener, though, there is another tulip...
January 23, 2012 | Read more >>

Winter is a time for Planning and Dreaming

On a visit to RHS Wisely last summer we walked through their lovely gardens and left with many ideas for new plants.  Annual poppies, like the one above,  seem to be a staple of UK cottage...
Vancouver January 20, 2012 | Read more >>

HARDY CYCLAMEN - Bill Bischoff shares his passion

(An excerpt from a Vancouver Chapter General Meeting lecture, January 2011) Bill Bischoff is a passionate plants person who with his wife Carla has created a garden of visual delight with their...
Vancouver November 30, 2011 | Read more >>

BIG DREAMS for SMALL SPACES

Imagine that you had the chance to design and build your dream garden. Where would you start?  The first step in the design process is imagination and thought.  The design of landscape, of...
Victoria October 1, 2011 | Read more >>

Gardener Apprenticeship: Teaching Teens in the Garden

For three Sundays in the month of April, a group of teens aged 14 to 18 years learned the basics of gardening. This program, called the Gardener’s Apprentice Basic Certificate Program, is...
Victoria August 22, 2011 | Read more >>

Growing Gardens, Growing Minds

"the verb cultiver retains in French these two meanings: that of growing a garden and that of becoming learned" ALBERTO MANGUEL It’s a sunny, warm August morning at the Horticulture...
Victoria August 21, 2011 | Read more >>

Grow Me Instead

A number of pretty, but very invasive, plants are taking over British Columbia's gardens, roadsides and waterways.  These harmful, non-natives are threatening our environment with their...
Victoria April 26, 2011 | Read more >>


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