Why flowers do what they do, better, with soot, ash & s**t.
A story of the Waterton post-fire blooms, Serengeti fertility, and Amazonian green. Join award Winning Conservationist, Educator, Naturalist and WildLife Expert Brian Keating for a story of the Waterton post-fire blooms, Serengeti fertility, and Amazonian green. Brian Keating is one of Canada’s most in demand keynote speakers. He previously held the position “Head of Conservation Outreach” at the…
Cultivating Culinary Mushrooms
Growing Culinary Mushrooms - Easier than you think! Join Tara Stephen for an afternoon of mushroom growing. Three different methods will be examined: Pearl Oysters on stacks, Wine Caps on garden on beds and Shaggy Manes on compost heaps. If you love dining on mushrooms don't miss how easy it is to grow your own. Tara Stephens is conservation biologist by day and…
MGAA Board Meeting
via Go To MeetingCHS Garden Show
The Calgary Horticultural Society is excited to announce that we are having a 2021 Garden Show! It is a virtual event, the weekend of April 24 and 25, and will be offered using an online conference platform. The conference format will allow us to bring you speakers live and host an exhibit hall. It will be…
CHS Garden Show
The Calgary Horticultural Society is excited to announce that we are having a 2021 Garden Show! It is a virtual event, the weekend of April 24 and 25, and will be offered using an online conference platform. The conference format will allow us to bring you speakers live and host an exhibit hall. It will be…
Sustainable Edible Gardening in Alberta, A Growing Movement
The Edmonton Horticultural Society Speaker Series present this Zoom Event. Growing edibles sustainably regardless of whether you are growing in a large farm, home garden, community garden plot or a few containers on the patio or balcony have many common requirements of the grower. It’s not about just growing to feed yourselves now; but it…
Gardening with Irene Parlby, A Heritage Garden
Alix Wagon Wheel Museum Presents a Zoom: Take a journey with Irene Parlby as she talks about her 1935 garden experiences on the drought locked prairies pre-garden centres. Irene is remembered as a member of the Famous 5/Persons Case. She was also a gardener! Presented by Verne Williams of VMW Gardener and "Garden Sages". Tuesday, April…
Planet & People Friendly Backyards
Planet & People Friendly Backyards - Caring for our planet and people starts right in our own backyards learn how with Claudia Bolli Caring for our planet and people starts right in our own backyards. With carefully selected edible, medicinal and native plants, we can create a garden sanctuary that heals and feeds us while providing…
Cypripedium Culture. Lady Slipper Orchids
Join Shawn Hillis on growing Lady Slipper Orchids in Western Canadian gardens. The distinctive flowers of Cypripedium and other Lady Slipper Orchids are marked by the inflated slipper or shoe-shaped lip. The name Cypripedium is derived from Kypris, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, the Latin word pedis meaning “foot” the Greek word pedilon meaning “slipper”. There are about 58…
MGAA – Creating Beauty Through Texture, with Elaine Rude
Creating texture in a garden can be a challenge for gardeners including the most experienced ones. Texture is rather an amorphous quality generating questions of: what is it really; why are some plants considered textural and not others and, how do you put plants together to create interest? While we often think of texture as…
Diseases of Landscape Trees
On Thurs May 20 at Noon (Eastern) join Drs. Nicholas Brazee, Univ of Massachusetts Extension & Cameron McIntire, USDA Forest Service, as they discuss tree-related diseases of importance that arborists & urban foresters may encounter during the 2021 growing season. Special discussion will be given to diseases of conifers, including Eastern White Pine. Attend live & receive Free ISA/MCA CEU's by…