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Seedy Saturday – February 23

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Saturday, February 23, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 31 King Street, Picton.

Have some seedy fun! Help Move your community’s food future! Talk to Seedy People (about Seeds!) Secure your OWN Food security! Enjoy a friendly atmosphere! Buy Seeds. Swap Seeds. Donate Seeds! Demo’s, Discussions, and Advice from local experts! Raffles! Food! Garden Inspiration! Vegucation! Q & A’s on gardening and seed saving!

Visit the Seedy Saturday Facebook page.

Society Meeting – January 30

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President Colleen Green opened the meeting by welcoming everybody and speaking briefly about society business and plans for events later in the year.

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Colleen introduced January’s featured speaker – Kurt Crist – who gave an interesting ‘illustrated’ talk about bird seed and bird feeders with plenty of seed and feeder examples on view. His talk sparked some interesting questions and observations from the members.

The most unusual item Kurt presented was a concrete feeder from Germany – the yellow feeder at the end of the table in the picture below. The concrete feeder was the raffle prize for the meeting.

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The Mini-show, organized by Gwen Reilly, was a good fit with the featured speaker’s presentation – ‘Any flower presentation featuring a winter bird’.

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Mini-show entries were judged by the members at large. 1st place went to Mary Jenkins, 2nd place to Kim Katanik-Kuris, and 3rd place to Gwen Reilly.

2012 Award Winners

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At the recent AGM, presentations were made by out-going vice-president Joyce Young to the winners of various Society awards:

Phyllis Turpin Award for Floral Excellence
Awarded to the club member with the most points at the Gardeners Gala
Winner – Pat Stuckey

Best Design at the Gardeners Gala
Winner – Pat Stuckey

Best Iris at the Gardeners Gala
Winner – Judith Young

Horticultural Award for most points at the monthly Mini-Shows
Winner – Kim Katanik-Kuris

Judith and Donald McClure Peony Award
Winner – Sandra Dowds

Red Rose Trophy for best rose at the Gardeners Gala
Winner – Kim Katanik-Kuris

Youth Award
Winner – Nicholas Young

Vegetable Display at the Gardeners Gala
Winner – Sherrie Brown

AGM – new executive elected

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Welcome and welcome back … the new executive elected at the Annual General Meeting.

Past president Ingrid Bronson, new president Colleen Green, and some of the newly elected executive at the Annual General Meeting.

Front Row:  Left to right
Kim Katanik-Kuris, Colleen Green, Arline de Bourbon, Judy Young, Gwen Reilly, Anne Reeves, Howard Hunter

2nd Row: Left to right
Mary Jenkins, Darlene Johnston, Gayla Campney, Charles Lacey, Ingrid Bronson

Absent:
Liz Bowers and Elizabeth Cowan

Festival of Trees – your contribution is requested.

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Your contributions are requested for the Society’s tree for the Festival of Trees.

The Festival of Trees is a fund-raising event organized by the Hospital Auxiliary for the benefit of the PEC Memorial Hospital. We will be decorating a tree with all things horticultural to donate to the silent auction.  We need seeds, bulbs, pots, gardening books, tools (new items only  please) , anything with a horticultural connection, to decorate our tree. It doesn’t matter if the item is too big to actually go on the tree, it can stand beside it and be part of the package.

This year the trees will be on display at the Isaiah Tubbs Resort, West Lake, Nov. 30 – Dec. 1 | Fri. & Sat. 10am-9pm; Dec. 2 –  Sun. 10am-2pm.  Admission is free and in addition to the Silent Auction for the trees, there will be a  Bucket Draw, a Second Time Around Shop Sale and a Bake Sale.

Please bring your items to the Oct 31st meeting. Failing that, please contact any member of the executive and let them know you have a contribution. They will advise you where it can be dropped off.