May 1st Meeting

 

 

The May 1st meeting is our Annual General Meeting and plant exchange.  Doors open at 6pm, meeting starts at 6:30pm. Rollo center capacity is 65 people, come early for seating!!

Plant Sale/Plant Exchange Procedure

For the plant exchange, you can bring up to three plants to exchange, well settled into their pots, and properly labelled (name, light, care, eventual size).

When you arrive, you will be directed to the deck off the lobby where volunteers will point you to the table set aside for each type of plant: annual, perennial, vegetable, herb, etc. AND, you will fill out a slip of paper with your name and # of plants you brought to put in the random draw container.

If you have plants for the sale table, those go inside the small room, and again are sorted by type of plant. We have the same requirements re labelling, well settled into their container and any other helpful info (for tomatoes, for eg., Determinate or indeterminate, variety name, cherry or sauce type, etc) on the tag too.

The plant sale will start as soon as the plants arrive. You know we can’t help ourselves….

The plant exchange will take place after the annual board reports, the election of board members for the next year and the usual tips, tools, event notices parts of the meeting. Then names will be drawn from the slips you filled out and three people at a time will go out to the deck and select their plants based on how many they brought. We encourage you to select from a variety of the plants out there and not ‘three of a kind’.

We suggest you bring a box to put your purchased and exchanged plants in and help keep the mess contained.
 

 

April 3rd Meeting

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March 6th Meeting

 

 Spotted Wing Drosophila pamphlet

Mar-Apr  2025 Garden Workshop List 

BCCGC March newsletter

February 6th meeting

January 9, 2025 Meeting

December 5th meeting

 

Thursday Dec 5th at Rollo is our final meeting of 2024.

Our speaker for December is not able to attend and therefore let’s take advantage of this opportunity to play (The cat’s away and thus the mice will play).   We can make our own centerpieces, garlands and displays.

Everyone is invited to show up with greens, wire, tape, cutters and ‘bobbles’ that we will transform into garlands, table centres and displays.  There will be refreshments, a door prize, and raffle!   Let’s chat, create and celebrate.  Let’s have fun, share and you can even renew your membership.  

Doors open at 6pm, and the meeting begins at 6:30pm at the Rollo Centre.  Capacity is limited to 65, first come first served.

 

November 7th meeting

Emony's presentation notes

Lund Gathering Place Plant list 

Keystone plant list 

Keystone plant list 2 

Our next meeting is Thursday Nov 7th and our speaker is Emony Nicholls. Doors open at 6pm, and the meeting begins at 6:30pm at the Rollo Centre.  Capacity is limited to 65, first come first served.

Emony has worked as an environmental consultant, entrepreneur and biologist for the last 25 years. For seven of those years, she owned and operated a native plant nursery in Ontario providing plants for and designing ecological restoration projects in the most easterly tallgrass prairie in North America. Her graduate research was on the relationship between pollinators and plants and how it drives the evolution of life history traits in plants (age, sex, growth, etc.). As part of her work, she did taxonomic identification of the native pollinators and fell in love with them, their diversity and individual beauty. She is now on a mission to educate others about them in the hopes that they will fall in love with them too! She recently left work with the provincial government as an ecosystems biologist and now lives and works on Salt Spring Island.

Topic of presentation:  Ecological Gardening

In this talk, we will explore the wide-ranging aspects of ecological gardening and how we can support our natural systems even on a small scale.  Seeing the garden as an interconnected ecology, we will cover topics such as how to support soil health, incorporating drought/flood tolerant garden principles, water harvesting, supporting native insects, birds, and wildlife through native plants while choosing low impact methods and materials. Let’s think to the future and ask what we can do to help mother nature!