Archive for September, 2009

BGC Meeting: “Public and Private Gardens to Visit in Quebec” with Julie Boudreau

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May 12, 2010 7:30pm

“Public and Private Gardens to Visit in Quebec”
by Julie Boudreau, Horticulturalist, Author and Media Personality

Click here for a list of some favourite gardens.  Some of them have fabulous web sites too.

BGC Meeting: “Spring Wildflowers of the Montreal Region” with Rick Fraser

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April 14, 2010 7:30pm

“Spring Wildflowers of the Montreal Region”
by Rick Fraser, Professor, McGill University

BGC Meeting: “All about Trees for the Garden” with John Watson

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March 10, 2010 7:30pm

“All about Trees for the Garden”
by John Watson, Forest Operation Manager, Morgan Arboretum

BGC Meeting: “The Layered Garden” with Mike Hodgins

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February 10, 2010 7:30pm

“The Layered Garden”
by Mike Hodgins, Landscape Architect

BGC Meeting: “Attracting Birds to the Back Yard” with David Bird

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January 13, 2010 7:30pm

“Attracting Birds to the Back Yard”
by David Bird, Professor of Wildlife Biology, McGill University

BGC Meeeting: “An Insider’s Secrets about Houseplants” with Chris Chimbers

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October 14, 2009 7:30pm

“An Insider’s Secrets about Houseplants”
by Chris Chimbers

Chris Chimbers began working in horticulture in 1976. He worked in greenhouse growing, garden centre, and especially in interior plantscaping. He studied indoor plants at jardin botanique de Montreal, and interior plantscaping at Royal Botanical Garden, Burlington, Ont.

During the past eight years he was senior technician responsible for training and quality control at Planterra. In July, 2009 he started his own business,  C C Indoor Plant Care, with a website at www.ccservice.ca.

BGC Meeting: “Saving Seeds” with Greta Krgyer

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September 9, 2009 7:30pm

“Saving Seeds”
by Greta Krgyer

Greta Kryger was born and raised in Denmark, spent a few years in Switzerland, then on to Montreal and by 1991 moved to a hobby farm in St. Isidore, Ontario, where she had a market garden and a CSA. At this time she was also introduced to Heritage Seeds and a few “weird tomatoes” which she started saving seeds for. She was  growing  different things  as a market gardener, she soon realized that seed companies don’t carry all their seeds for long and had to produce her own seeds if she wanted to grow them. By the mid nineties she sent out her first seed catalog and now it is a full time business. She is a member of Seeds Of Diversity Canada and Canadian Organic Growers and part of setting up the Eastern Canadian Organic Seed Growers Network. She operates her own organic seed company in Ottawa, Greta’s Organic Gardens.