Archive for March, 2011

10th Annual NOVA/Palliative Care Garden Tour

July 10, 2011 9:00am - 1:00pm

10th Annual NOVA/Palliative Care Garden Tour

A self guided tour of some of the West Island’s most beautiful gardens.

This annual tour is a fund raiser, with proceeds shared between NOVA West Island and the West Island Palliative Care Residence.  Tickets are $20.

Tickets will be available as of June 4, 2011 at the following Thrift Shops for Nova locations:
• 43-3 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (514-457-1642)
• 449 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield (514-694-8417)
• 2750 St. Charles Blvd, Kirkland (514-697-6692)

Members’ Garden Tour

June 12, 2011 9:00am - 12:00pm

Members’ Garden Tour

A tour of  BGC members’ gardens
Free for members; $5.00 for non-members

The tour will start at Joelle Crane & Ivan Dow’s garden, 580 Pine Beach Rd., Dorval NORTH [between Cardinal & Surrey] [map].  From there you will receive addresses and a map to the four other gardens. Please car pool as much as you can.

Christmas Pot Luck Dinner

December 14, 2011 7:30pm

Christmas Pot Luck Dinner

Meeting: “Annuals and Perennials Worth the Hunt” with Paul Zammit

October 12, 2011 7:30pm

Annuals and Perennials Worth the Hunt

Paul Zammit
Director of Horticulture at the Botanical Gardens of Toronto

Meeting: “Small is Beautiful” with Wanda Mitkiewicz

November 9, 2011 7:30pm

“Small is Beautiful”

Wanda Mitkiewicz

Meeting: “History of the Ornamental Vegetable Garden” with Gwynne Basen

September 14, 2011 7:30pm

“History of the Ornamental Vegetable Garden”

Gwynne Basen

Meeting: “Elsie’s Paradise- the Gardens of Elsie Reford” with Alexander Reford

March 9, 2011 7:30pm

“Elsie’s Paradise- the Gardens of Elsie Reford”

Alexander Reford
The Reford Gardens (formerly Les Jardins de Métis) is one of Canada’s most historic landscapes, thanks to both its creator, Elsie Reford, and her great-grandson, Alexander Reford.