This year, Richmond Garden Club is proudly celebrating 60 years of gardening in our garden-focused city.
As it is Canada’s 150th birthday, we have partnered with the City of Richmond to create some ‘garden celebrations.’
This past fall, Richmond Garden Club planted 400 red and white tulip bulbs (Canada Eh), donated by the city, into the gardens at Paulik Park. We encourage everyone to visit Paulik Park this spring to view the vibrant display honouring Canada’s birthday.
Our garden club and the city are well underway with planning a unique, community-wide, Richmond-based, unique, private gardens tour this summer (if you would like to showcase your garden to fellow Richmondites, send us an email at: [email protected]).
Richmond Garden Club is actively promoting garden education in our city. We offer ongoing gardening education series through a partnership with Richmond Public Library.
Our popular winter gardening series has covered an array of topics, such as preparing your garden for spring, vegetable gardening, pruning principles and on March 20, we will be teaching how to pot up spring plants in containers.
British author of 20 garden books and landscape designer, using a naturalistic approach, Dr. Noel Kingsbury, will be visiting Vancouver this month.
City of Richmond and Richmond Garden Club are very proud to host an evening with him on Monday, March 13 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Richmond Cultural Centre (7700 Minoru Gate).
Dr. Kingsbury will present an entertaining look at whether women and men garden differently. This popular presentation will infuse a bit of gentle sociology, illustrated with a variety of historical visual material.
Dr. Kingsbury writes a very provocative blog (Noels-Garden.blogspot.ca).
Kingsbury has been described as the “voice of authority with renegade undertones,” which his blog certainly demonstrates.
His most recent blog speaks about the decline of college courses teaching horticulture.
In his opinion, there has been a serious decline in adult gardening education in Britain. He feels that there is a whole generation growing up not knowing the basics of gardening.
To register for this event visit online at Richmond.ca/Register and enter barcode 1908338 or phone 604-276-4300.
So, join us in our celebrations this year. We will continue to make darn sure that we keep educating people on how to garden for years to come.
Lynda Pasacreta is the current president of the Richmond Garden Club. For more information visit RichmondGardenClub.ca
