Art and Music at Glendale Gardens

View Royal Garden Club Annual Fall Show

View Royal Garden Club Annual Fall Show

Shoreline Community School

Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm

2750 Shoreline Drive Victoria Map to Shoreline Community School
Annual Fall Show by members of the View Royal Garden Club Info. 250-478-5880 Admission: $5.00 includes refreshments and door prizes.

Summer Pruning & Workshops

Summer Pruning & Workshops

Royal Roads University

Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 10:00 am

2005 Sooke Road Victoria Map to Royal Roads UniversityBC Fruit Testers Association present a workshop at Royal Roads Orchard. Bring your pruners for hands on experience on different fruit trees. Workshops 12:30-1:30

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Bring a lunch! Follow signs to the Mews Pay parking.

Information: Barrie Agar barrie.agar@royalroads.ca or Ann Aylard tel 250 656 0815

Water Garden Tour

Water Garden Tour

Self-guided Garden Tour

Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:00 am

For the Love of Africa Society will be holding their fifth annual Water Garden Tour of some of Victoria’s finest water gardens.

Tickets for the self-guided tour are $25 and will be available May 17th at most Victoria garden centres. Information: www.fortheloveofafrica.org or (250) 891-0762.

Summer Scentsation Garden Show & Plant Sale

Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 10:00 am

Summer Scentsation Garden Show & Plant Sale

James Bay Community Centre

140 Oswego Street

Map to James Bay Community Centre

Annual show of the Victoria Lily Society. Highlights include a display of early summer garden flowers and ornamental lilies, floral arrangements, flower arranging demonstrations, and a general plant sale (to include potted lilies).

Entries by the general public are welcome for both the judged competitions and the non-judged displays.

Admission is by donation.

An elegant afternnoon tea will be available for $5.00.

Show Handbook URL: http://www.members.shaw.ca/lilynet/viclil/2011showhandbook.pdf

Thimble Farms Hellaborganza

Helleborganza

Thimble Farms Hellebore Extravaganza

February 18th-20th

Featured at this event will be an outstanding collection of Hellebores as well as other fabulous late winter blooming plants including Adonis, Corydalis, Cyclamen, Dentaria, double and single Hepatica and more.

Hard work and dedication to hand pollination has produced amazingly beautiful strains of Hellebores in which every plant is fabulous and unique.

Hellebore Gallery

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http://www.thimblefarms.com/Hellebore%20gallery.html

Thimble Farms Hellebore page

http://www.thimblefarms.com/hellebore.html

Helleborganza Event Page

http://www.thimblefarms.com/events.html

Fraser's Thimble Farm
175 Arbutus Road
Salt Spring Island B.C.
V8K 1A3

Phone/fax 250-537-5788

email thimfarm@telus.net

Seedy Saturday

Victoria's premier networking and educational event for gardeners of all abilities! Join us at the first gardening event of the year that features:
open-pollinated, organic, heritage and unique vegetable and flower seeds for sale direct from the growers specialty and native plants, perennials, bulbs, bamboos, rare trees, succulents vegetable seedlings small fruits, fruit and nut trees products from and for the garden cheese, fish, eggs, preserves, local produce, flowers, herbs mason bee boxes, honey, books garden club and non-profit displays and demonstrations Master Gardeners Bring your own saved seeds to donate or trade at the Seed Exchange. Seeds should be cleaned, packaged in clear bags, and labelled with the variety and year saved. The Free Speaker Presentations are one hour in length. Seating is limited, so be sure to come early for the topic of your choice. Click here for details. The Kids' Space will offer simple activities supervised by Victoria Compost Education Centre volunteers; parents stay with their children. Hours: 10am - 2pm.. Seedy Cafe offers snacks, beverages and light lunches from 11am - 2pm

Seedy Saturday

http://www.jamesbaymarket.com/seedysaturday/seedysaturday.htm