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January 24th, 2008 |
Viola Mueller
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February 28th, 2008 |
Sherry Hayes
"Planning your Garden - Landscape Ideas and Advice"
Sherry is an Honours Graduate of the Landscape Design Program
from Mohawk College of Applied Arts in Hamilton. She is also
the founding owner and lead designer of Landscaping With Style.
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March 27th, 2008
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Jim St. Marie
"Perennials, What to Buy, Planting and the Care Of"
A slide survey of many popular and not so well known perennial
flowering plants. Purchasing, planting, dividing and caring
for perennials is touched on.
From 1989 till moving to Burlington, Jim St. Marie was the
weekly Gardening columnist for the Kitchener Record. He's
also been the author and photographer for occasional feature
articles in Canadian and U.S. gardening magazines.
Jim has Co-hosted, with his wife Lorraine, many overseas gardener's
tours. He's a former Producer/Director of CBC-TV weekly network
gardening programme: a former college night school teacher
of home gardening; since 1972 he's been a member of the Royal
Horticultural Society of England and Garden Writers Association
of America. In 1997, he gave a day-long Basic Gardening lecture,
in 165 cities from Victoria B.C. to St. John's Newfoundland
for Home Hardware dealers and their gardening section staff.
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April 24rd, 2008 |
David Hobson
"In MY Garden", inspiration for Spring (and not
without humor)!
David Hobson is a humorist, storyteller, and garden columnist
for The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, and The Guelph Mercury
— and the creator of the Garden Humour Website. He is
the author of two books of garden fiction — /Soiled
Reputations/ — hilarious stories of garden rivals Cynthia
and Riley, and /Diary of a Mad Gardener/ — a year in
the life of Dibble, a passionate, obsessive, and absolutely
“mad” gardener.
A lifelong gardener, David happily shares his passion speaking
to many horticultural societies and gardening groups, over
the fence to neighbours, innocent bystanders, in fact anyone
who will listen. He has spoken at venues such as Canada Blooms,
The Canadian National Exhibition, The International Home and
Garden Show, Ontario Horticultural Association Convention,
and The South Eastern Flower Show in Atlanta, Georgia, and
after tonight, the World Famous Haldimand Horticultural Society
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May 22nd, 2008 |
Peter Keeping, Counsil Member, Canada
"The Joys and Care of Clematis"
Peter was born in Rochester, Kent, England, moved to Fulham
in 1937 where he lived through the war. He worked for Wills
and Seagar in Knightsbridge - Florists to Her Majesty. He
emigrated to Canada in 1957 with his family. He started a
horse ranch and farmed 1500 acres until 1971 when the farm
was sold. Peter moved to Grand Valley in Ontario and then
to Scarborough in 1980.
He started gardening with Clematis in 1986 when most of the
children had left home. It was a large garden. He moved to
a 1/2 acre property in Bowmanville, Ontario in November 2000,
where he and his partner Sheila, had to start the garden from
scratch .
Now retired, Peter has more than 300 Clematis in his garden,
and has to find room for 83 new plants which he took back
to Canada with him from the U.K. after attending the International
Clematis Society Conference in Cambridge, England.
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June 26th, 2008 |
Joseph Di Ciommo
The varieties of Orchids and the Growing and Caring
Joe is a hairdresser by trade. Orchids were meant to be his
retirement project so that he could have something to do throughout
the winter months. During the summer, he's involved in soccer
as a referee or referee's evaluator.
Joe has been growing orchids for 25 years. At one time he
was the president of the orchid society at the RBG as well
as a chair of the society's show for many years. He has developed
his own hybrids, many of which have won International awards
from the American Orchid Society.
The greenhouse in his garden is 1,000 square feet with over
3 thousand orchids of many genera in cultivation. He holds
8 shows per year where he sells plants in bloom.
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July |
Bus Trip
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August |
Leslie Groves
Pic A Pot
Leslie holds two diplomas, one in Horticulture and one in
Retail Floristry. She has gone on to teach programs at Landscape
Ontario, Humber College and numerous floral courses across
Canada. With 15+ years in the industry she is a regular presenter
and educator at national trade shows and has recently opened
a new chapter in her life known as "Pic A Pot Gardens"
located in Brantford which specializes in perennials.
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September |
Brian Bergman
Presentation: Lilies, the Orchids of Perennials
When you meet me, you will learn that my passion is hybridizing
lilies for gardens. Lilycrest Gardens is located near
St. Catharines where I am growing 2,000 varieties of
lilies with a total of 20,000 plants. I have been growing
lilies since 1988, and started exhibiting at the Ontario
Regional Lily Society (ORLS) shows shortly after that.
With the support of the active hybridizing communities
in the local and national societies, I began to hybridize
to create lilies for gardens and over time have developed
more than a thousand varieties. I've selected the top
10 for commercial production.
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October |
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November |
Carolyn Dupps
Christmas Arrangements
Carolyn will be donating the arrangements she will make back to the society. She is a member of the Ancaster Society and is a designer at Shavers Flowers in Ancaster. |
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