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2021
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Tuesday, Feb. 16 Herbs – from the savoury to the sensual …. to deadly poison With Cathy Kavassalis
Tuesday, March 16 Proud of my Pruning With Sean James
Tuesday, April 20 Dirt & Bugs: the Glue that Holds Great Gardens Together With Pat de Valence
Tuesday, May 18 Building Biodiversity with Native Plants With Paul LaPorte
Tuesday, June 15 Unsettling the Garden With Lorraine Johnston
Tuesday, July 20 Retire your Lawnmower With Aileen Barclay ​
Tuesday, September 21 Golden Leaves and Goblins: easy fall and Hallowe’en -themed floral
arrangements With Michael Erdman
Tuesday, October 19 Fabulous Fungi: An introduction to Mushrooms and their Kin With David Hawke
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Tuesday, November 16 Preparing your Garden to Welcome Winter Birds With Kristen Martyn
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2020
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Tuesday, Feb. 18 Highlights of the 2019 Buffalo Garden Walk With Valerie Liney
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Tuesday, March 17 (Cancelled event) Proud of my Pruning With Sean James
Tuesday, April 21 (Cancelled event) Baffin Island With Jay and Bev Thibert
Tuesday, May 19 (Cancelled event) Building Biodiversity with Native Plants With Paul LaPorte
Tuesday, June 16 (Cancelled event) Dry, our New Normal: Great Plants that live With Marion Jarvie
Tuesday, July 21 (Cancelled event) Picture Perfect - Designing a Perennial Garden With Carol Ditomaso
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Tuesday, August 18 (Cancelled event) The Evening Garden With Wolfegang Bonham
(Online event) Getting to Biodiversity With Cathy Kavassalis
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Tuesday, September 15 (Online event) Garden of Regrets With Helen Battersby
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Tuesday, October 20 (Online event) Connecting Polar Bears to Carrots With Deborah Pearson
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Tuesday, November 17 (Online event) A Look at the Lighter Side of Gardening With David Hobson
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Monday, December 7 (Online event) Fraud and Awareness Prevention With Tom Cheel
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2019
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Tuesday Feb 19th 2019 Movie Night "SEED: The Untold Story"​
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Tuesday Mar 19th 2019 Plants You Have Never Seen Before: Kim's Nature Wing
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Tuesday Apr 16th 2019 Raised Bed Revolution- Raised Beds Rule: Tara Nolan
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Tuesday May 21st 2019 Water Gardens: Anna Leggatt
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Tuesday June 18th 2019 Carefree Roses: Gloria Broks
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Tuesday July 16th 2019 Leaning into Stone: John Shaw-Rimmington
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Tuesday Aug 20th 2019 Workshops (no speaker)
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Tuesday Sept 17th 2019 Creating an Interesting & Intriguing Garden: Wolfe Bonham
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Tuesday Oct 15th 2019 Lie of a Bee in the Urban Mosaic: Charlotte de Keyzer
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Tuesday Nov 19th 2019 Easy Floral Arrangements for the Holiday Season: Michael Erdman
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2018
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Tuesday February 20th 2018 Go Wild: Make Your Garden a Habitat: Pat de Valence
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Tuesday March 20th 2018 Time to Get Sowing: Donna McMaster
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Tuesday April 17th 2018 Fences: Their Fascinating Role in Local History: David Hawke
(Couchiching Conservancy)
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Tuesday, May 15th 2018 Edibles In An Urban Landscape : Steven Biggs
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Tuesday, June 19th 2018 Container Gardening : Anna Leggatt
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Tuesday, July 17th 2018 Raising Monarch Butterflies: Carol Pasternak
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Tuesday, Aug 21st 2018 Workshops (no speaker)
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Tuesday, Sept 18th 2018 Garlic: Bulbs of Fire: Bart Nagel
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Tuesday, Oct 16th 2018 Wild bees: Diversity and Pollination in parks, roof gardens and home gardens too!
Dr J. Scott MacIvor
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Tuesday, Nov 20th 2018 Summer Flowering Bulbs: Dugald Cameron
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2017
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Tuesday February 21st 2017 From YOUR Lawn to OUR Lake: Katlyn Young-Chin LSRCA
Tuesday March 16th 2017 Let us talk about Gardening: Donna McMaster
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Tuesday April 18, 2017: Photography for Gardeners with Ross Chevalier
Photography competition
Tuesday May 16th 2017 New and Interesting Perennials: Dawn Golloher
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Tuesday June 20th 2017 B4 Gardening: Sean James
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Tuesday July 19th 2017 Hardy Cacti and Other Succulents: Dave Naylor
Tuesday August 15th 2017 Celebration of Gardens
Tuesday September 19th 2017 Alpines and scree gardens: Nikola Warnock
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Tuesday October 17th 2017 Designing with trees and shrubs: Charlie Dobbin
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Tuesday November 21st 2017 Shade Gardening with Ken Brown: also AGM and Awards
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2016
Tuesday February 16th 2016 Orchids in our Tropics: Terry Kennedy
Tuesday March 15th 2016 Plant me instead: Ontario Invasive Plant Council
Tuesday April 19th 2016 The three tenors plus one
Ken Brown Also our photography competition
Tuesday May 17th 2016 Question and Answer period
Saturday May 28th,2016 Plant and bake sale
Tuesday June 21st, 2016 Chelsea flower show: Gloria Broks
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Tuesday July 19th 2016 The life of bees: James Murray
Tuesday August 16th 2016 Celebration of gardens
September 2016 Old fashioned favourites: James Graham
October 2016 Oddities of the plant world : Darren Heimbecker
November 2016 AGM: Unusual and underused perennials: Barry Porteus
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2015
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February 17th 2015 SECRETS OF FLORAL DESIGN: Mary-Ann Vercammen
March 17th 2015: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE GARDEN: Laura Mills
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April 21st 2015 GARDENING FROM A HAMMOCK: Dan Cooper
May 19th 2015: ONTARIO NATIVE PLANTS: Paul Laporte
June 16th 2015: THE NEW GARDENER: Carol Dunk
July 21st 2015: FAIRY GARDENS: Judith Rogers
August 18th 2015: ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW, CELEBRATION OF GARDENS AND
SILENT AUCTION
September 15th 2015 THE KITCHEN TABLE COOKBOOK:
Moira Sanders with special guest Elizabeth Baird
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October 20th 2015 PRACTICAL PERENNIALS: Sean James
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November 17th 2015 GARDEN ART FOR CHEAPSKATES: Diane and Gary Westlake
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2014
February 18th 2014 KEUKENHOF GARDENS AND PENSHURST PLACE:
A TASTE OF SPRING Barb Elend and Anne Hill
Tuesday March 18th 2014 PROUD OF MY PRUNING: Sean James
Tuesday April 15th 2014 EMERALD ASH BORER
Tuesday May 20th 2014 TAMING THE WILDFLOWER: Miriam Goldberger
Tuesday June 17th HOT NEW HOSTAS: Cindy and Carl Deutekom
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Tuesday July 15th 2014 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CACTI AND
SUCCULENTS: Dave Naylor
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Tuesday August 19th 2014 CELEBRATION OF GARDENS:
Annual flower show and silent auction
Tuesday September 16th 2014 MY LUSCIOUS BACKYARD: Sarah Nixon
Tuesday October 21st 2014 LAVENDER LORE: Kate Seaver
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2013
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February 19th 2013 GARDENS OF THE ISLANDS AND THE HIGHLANDS:
Donna McMaster and Jennifer Walton
March 19th 2013 WAKING THE GARDEN: getting off to a good start with
the garden and the lawn. Sabrina Selvaggi
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April 16th 2013 WHAT'S NEW FOR 2013:
Shannon Lindensmith from Georgina Gardens
May 23rd 2013, 7:30pm: GROWING ROSES IN A NEW ERA: Edna Caldwell
Saturday May 25th 2013 10am SPRING PLANT AND BAKE SALE:
Great plants and sweet treats. Great prices
June 18th 2013 WATER GARDENS, INCLUDING THOSE IN CONTAINERS
Nikola Warnock
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July 16th 2013, CULINARY HERBS: Sheila Shillum
August 20th, 2013: CELEBRATION OF GARDENS, ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW AND
SILENT AUCTION
Saturday September 7th: Plant Sale, Sharon Temple
September 17th 2013, GARDENS OF ITALY: Donna Fenice
October 15th 2013: NO MORE PETUNIAS - A POTPOURRI OF THE UNIQUE
AND UNUSUAL David Hobson
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November 19th 2013: Annual General Meeting DESIGN TWICE, PLANT ONCE
Jeff Mason
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2012
Tuesday February 21st 2012 BUGS IN THE GARDEN, speaker Malcolm Geast
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Tuesday March 20th 2012 FLORAL DESIGN DEMONSTRATION AND AUCTION:
Shirley Binns
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Tuesday April 17th 2012 OUR FAVOURITE GARDENING MISTAKES:
Gary and Dianne Westlake
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Tuesday May 15th 2012 CLEMATIS: Donna McMaster
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Tuesday June 19th 2012 NO GUFF VEGETABLE GARDENING: Steven Biggs
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Tuesday July17th 2012: GARDENING AS THERAPY: Sean Chubbuck.
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Tuesday August 14th 2012: CELEBRATION OF GARDENS:
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Tuesday September 18th 2012 PLANT A SPECTACULAR SPRING GARDEN NOW:
Dugald Cameron, Gardenimport
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Tuesday October 16th, 2012 SQUIRRELING AWAY FOR WINTER: Moira Sanders
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Tuesday November 20th 2012 GARDEN SEDUCTION, Ken Brown. Also our AGM
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2011
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March 2011: Success With Trees, Jeff Marrin
April 19th 2011, VERTICAL VEGETABLES: Ken Brown
May 17th 2011 IRISES, FOUR MONTHS OF BLOOM AND BEYOND:
Kate Brewitt and Terry Laurin.
May 28th 2011, SPRING PLANT SALE AND BAKE SALE
Tuesday June 21st 2011, PHOTOGRAPHY: Andy McCraw
Tuesday July 19th 2011, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEEING: Cathy Kozma
Tuesday August 16th 2011, ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW, CELEBRATION OF GARDENS
RECEPTION AND SILENT AUCTION.
Tuesday September 20th 2011 FLOWERS AND JUSTICE: Rev. David Chisling.
Tuesday October 18th 2011 Putting the garden to bed: Valerie Liney, Master Gardener.
Tuesday November 15th 2011 AWARDS NIGHT, ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, BANQUET.