Events 2010

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May 8, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Plant Auction, Grass Park, Brooklin, 10:00 am.

May 8, 2010, Pickering Horticultural Society’s Annual Plant Sale, The Gazebo in Esplanade Park, Pickering 9 am to 11 am (or until all the plants are sold). Bring your extra plants or buy someone else’s. Help raise money for the Society. Knowledgeable gardeners will be on hand!

May 10, 2010, Oshawa Garden Club Plant Sale
Topic: City Farmer
Lorraine Johnson, is president of the Canadian Wildflower Society and the author of several books on gardening and environmental issues.

May 11, 2010, Pickering Horticultural Society Meeting, O’Brien Rooms at the Pickering Recreation Complex, 8:00 pm.
Speaker: Lorraine Johnson
Topic: “The Naturalized Garden”

May 26, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Meeting, Brooklin United Church Hall, Cassels Road East, Brooklin, 7:30 pm. Gardening—It’s a Family Affair, featuring Brian, Dianne, Emily & Lauren Jones, Pearl Gardens, Greenbank.

June 2, 2010, Durham Organic Gardeners Meeting, Durham District School Board Administration Building, 400 Taunton Road East, Whitby, 7:30 pm. Make sure you don’t miss the annual PLANT AUCTION, our most popular event! Get lots of great, healthy plants and seedlings at bargain prices!

June 9, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Meeting, Brooklin United Church Hall, Cassels Road East, Brooklin, 7:30 pm. Naturally Wild Gardens, featuring Bea Heissler, Natural Themes Native Plants Nursery, Frankford.

June 14, 2010, Oshawa Garden Club Meeting, Lviv Hall, 38 Lviv Blvd., Oshawa, 7:30 pm.
Topic: 1001 Great Gardening Tips: 100 at a Time!
Trish Symons, of Hockley Meadows Farm, is a writer, judge, speaker, instructor and photographer of all things floral.

June 22, 2010, Pickering Horticultural Society Meeting, O’Brien Rooms at the Pickering Recreation Complex, 8:00 pm.
Speaker: TBA
Topic: TBA
Design Theme: Summer Distractions

June 23, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Meeting, Brooklin United Church Hall, Cassels Road East, Brooklin, 7:30 pm. Magnolias & Other Exotics—A Natural Choice, featuring Dave Hinton, Rhododendron Woods, Orono.

June 28, 2010, Oshawa Garden Club Meeting, Lviv Hall, 38 Lviv Blvd., Oshawa, 7:30 pm.
Topic: Strawberry Social & Silent Auction

July 3, 2010, Pickering Horticultural Society Bus Tour
Destination: TBA
Price: TBA
Contact: TBA

August 25, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Meeting, Brooklin United Church Hall, Cassels Road East, Brooklin, 7:30 pm. Daylilies 101, Everything You Need to Know, featuring Gary Carlson, Daylilies of the Field, AHS Display Garden, Orillia.

September 11, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Harvest Festival Plant Sale, Grass Park, Brooklin.

September 13, 2010, Oshawa Garden Club Meeting, Lviv Hall, 38 Lviv Blvd., Oshawa, 7:30 pm.
Topic: Beauty of Bulbs
Ken Brown is a horticultural consultant, writer and photographer, who has worked as the Superintendent of Horticulture at the Toronto Zoo as well as an instructor at Durham College.

September 14, 2010, Pickering Horticultural Society Workshop, O’Brien Rooms at the Pickering Recreation Complex, 8:00 pm.
Speaker: Sheila Shillum
Workshop: ” Using Herbs”
Design Theme: Reflections

September 22, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Meeting, Brooklin United Church Hall, Cassels Road East, Brooklin, 7:30 pm. Garden Trends: Past, Present & Future, featuring Denis Flanagan, PR Director, Landscape Ontario.

October 12, 2010, Pickering Horticultural Society Meeting, O’Brien Rooms at the Pickering Recreation Complex, 8:00 pm.
Speaker: Lenord Teengs
Topic: “Holiday Decorating”
Design Theme: Fall Fantasies

October 18, 2010, Oshawa Garden Club Meeting, Lviv Hall, 38 Lviv Blvd., Oshawa, 7:30 pm.
Topic: Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds
Dr. Bridget Stutchbury is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at York University. She will bring her studies of the social lives of birds to us. She is author of the book Silence of the Songbirds (2007), and the upcoming The Bird Detective (2010).

October 27, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Meeting, Brooklin United Church Hall, Cassels Road East, Brooklin, 7:30 pm. The Gardens of Malaysia, featuring Veronica Sliva, National Director, Garden Writers, Ajax.

November 8, 2010, Oshawa Garden Club Annual General Meeting – Elections – Craft Sale and Workshop

November 12, 2010, Pickering Horticultural Society Meeting, O’Brien Rooms at the Pickering Recreation Complex, 8:00 pm.
Annual General Meeting and Pot Luck Dinner
Join us for the election of officers and directors, at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Pickering Village. Socializing and punch cocktails at 6:00 pm followed by dinner at 7:00 pm.

November 24, 2010, Brooklin Horticultural Society Annual Meeting, Brooklin United Church Hall, Cassels Road East, Brooklin, 7:00 pm.

December 6, 2010, Oshawa Garden Club Annual Christmas Social – 6:00 p.m.
Members and guests welcome.