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SUMMARY:Edmonton Horticultural Society Plant Share
DESCRIPTION:Edmonton Horticultural Society Plant Share \nGardeners love to share! The EHS’s semi-annual Perennial Exchange is a great opportunity to find new homes for your extra plants\, exchange them for new ones\, and buy locally hardy plants at reasonable prices. You can donate and buy garden tools\, too. \nThis event is held twice a year—each spring just as you are getting started and may have extra plants\, and during fall clean-up when you may be dividing perennials or have seeds to share. \nHere’s how it works:\nFor every plant you bring\, you get one credit. During the exchange\, you can trade your credits for plants that someone else brought. After the exchange portion of the event\, remaining plants are sold for very reasonable prices. There are vendor and display tables to browse and the popular Garden Tools table\, where EHS members and others can donate gently used unwanted garden equipment to be sold to benefit EHS. \n \nGallardia \n\nWhy participate? \n\nTo get new plants that grow well locally\nTo share your excess plants with others\nTo meet fellow gardeners\nTo have a good time\n\nPrepare before you come.\nGuidelines for preparing your plants:\n\nPlease pot healthy plants in individual\, sturdy containers (not paper or plastic bags\, please). Bulk\, bare root stock (such as iris) is permitted but must be identified as to the quantity of tubers\, bulbs\, or corms\, as well as the labeling requirements listed below.\nPlants must be labeled. Please identify plants by botanical name\, if known\, and common name. It’s very helpful if you can also indicate height\, spread\, bloom colour\, location preference\, and bloom time.\n\nQualifiers\n\nNo guarantee is offered that there will be plant material available of equal value to your plants.\nNo credit is given for Chives or Goutweed.\nWe do not accept plants designated as noxious or prohibited noxious. For a complete list see the fact sheets at abinvasives.ca
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/edmonton-horticultural-society-plant-share/
LOCATION:Edmonton Horticultural Society Office\, 10746 – 178 ST NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Edmonton Horticultural Society
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SUMMARY:CRAGS (Calgary Rock and Alpine Garden Society) Plant Sale
DESCRIPTION:CRAGS ANNUAL PLANT SALE: SATURDAY JUNE 3\, 2023 \nCRAGS Plant Sale Saturday June 3\, 2023: \n\nOpen to the public noon to 4pm.\nVolunteers get early pick from about 11:15am to noon.\nSetup starts about 9:45am.\nBuyers: Please try to bring a tray or box for your purchases.  Each vendor handles his or her own payments\, so please bring some small denominations of cash.\n\nCRAGS has been holding an annual plant sale for over 30 years!  2023 will be the 32nd year we’ve had a sale.  The club’s portion of the proceeds go to pay for our speaker series\, which features local and international speakers. \nOver the years we’ve relied on our own members who produce specialty rock garden plants.  Commercial vendors have come and\, sadly\, gone.  We all miss the late Willi Roth and also Roger Barlow of BC.  Lately we have at least one wildflower specialist and an orchid specialist who usually come to our sales. \nBut the variety and quantity of plants at our sale continues to amaze.  Many member growers offer plants that have been started from seed under lights only a few months prior to the sale\, or one to two years prior.  These small plants are often successful transplants into a trough\, crevice garden\, or other rock garden\, after a short period of hardening-off.  Some members bring small self-seeded plants or divisions from plants in their garden\, so you can be sure those are hardy in our areas.  And the prices are below what a commercial nursery would charge\, as their offerings are usually much larger and older. \nThen there are the happy surprises such as Martagon Lily divisions from established perennial gardens\, and even tomato seedlings\, because even rock gardeners have other types of garden plants in their yards. \nHolding the event outdoors since 2021 has been very pleasant\, though the set-up is a little more work. (Volunteers always welcome for that!).  We have the option to move indoors at the Lakeview Community Hall if the weather is bad. \nIf you are a grower planning to offer plants at the sale\, or a member wishing to volunteer for setup\, teardown\, or other work such as cashiers\, please contact Patti at president@crags.ca \n 
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/crags-calgary-rock-and-alpine-garden-society-plant-sale/
LOCATION:Lakeview Community Association Hall\, 6110 – 34th Street SW.\, Calgary\, Alberta\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:MGAA Board Meeting
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URL:https://mgaab.org/event/mgaa-board-meeting-12/
LOCATION:via ZOOM
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SUMMARY:MGAA Study Day
DESCRIPTION:  \nOur First In-Person Study Day \n  \nThe MGAA Learning Committee is very excited to present our first Study Day on June 17 in Calgary.  This is an opportunity to increase your knowledge with Jane Reksten\, a perennial expert and highly respected horticulturalist.  After the morning presentation\, participants will spend the afternoon touring two incredible local gardens. These two spaces are truly unique and showcase a level of horticultural excellence not often seen. \nThis is a member’s only event but we invite you to bring along a guest.  Tickets are $25/person.  Space is limited.  For more information and to purchase tickets send an email to learning@mgaab.org. \nHope to see you there! \nEcological Gardening – perennials and their garden habitats \nGardeners that look beyond their garden gate will have found it hard to ignore the trend towards what is variously known as:  ‘naturalistic planting design’; ‘designing with plants’; ‘new wave perennials planting’ or ‘wild-scaping’.  They describe a philosophy of gardening which requires seeing plants for more than their flowers\, embracing their form\, structure\, and how well they earn their keep after they have died back in the fall. Gardeners that follow this movement aim to use plants based on ‘ecological rather than purely aesthetic principles\, which ultimately should lead to low-maintenance\, sustainable gardening spaces. \n  \nIn this workshop we will go beyond the simplified information typically found in plant catalogues and on tags.  We will dig deeper into the true habits and growth patterns of plants\, and discuss the importance of their origins – all of which allows us to use plants successfully.  We will make a close examination of garden habitats\, and study the difference between highly bred border perennials and native perennials\, and their suitability for the garden. \n  \nJane’s bio \nJane Reksten has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Victoria in Microbiology and Environmental Studies and a Diploma in Horticulture from Olds College. She worked in the landscape maintenance and development industry for five years before joining the Calgary Zoo and Botanical Gardens\, first as the Schoolyard Naturalization Project leader\, and then the Botanical Education Coordinator and Manager of Continuing Education.  Jane joined Olds College in 2011 and managed the Botanic Gardens and Greenhouses until 2020.  She is now an independent consultant\, and the Head Gardener for Lougheed House.  Jane is a regular writer and speaker on a variety of gardening topics and has a particular interest in perennials and design.
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SUMMARY:International Master Gardeners Conference 2023
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URL:https://mgaab.org/event/international-master-gardeners-conference-2023/
CATEGORIES:International Master Gardeners
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