Category: Miscellaneous

The meeting started at 7:15 with President Colleen Green introducing Erika Wolff, a raw food expert, who gave a talk and demonstration on “Sprouting – the Power of Raw”.

Erika brought a variety of sprouts – broccoli, peas, sunflowers amongst others – for us to try. She explained that sprouts carry plenty of vitamins, minerals, proteins and enzymes, plus they are always fresh as they will keep growing until you eat them. Home sprouting is inexpensive, and can supply us with fresh produce at home even in winter, eliminating the need to buy produce that has travelled long distances to reach us.  Erika gave us an informational handout on sprouting, plus copies of “Healing our World”, a magazine from the Hippocrates Health Institute. Erika is a Certified Health Educator and Holistic Nutrition Coach and lives in the County. She can be reached through www.powerofraw.com.

Ingrid Bronson, past President, is opening her garden on the afternoon of Sunday Sept 27^th to anyone who would like to help themselves to some of her perennials. Ingrid is at 8 Catherine Street, Picton.

John Kaiser, one of our new members, is interested in obtaining quince suckers for a bonsai project. If you have any quince suckers you would like to get rid of, please let John know at the next meeting.

Angela Palmer brought in a whole batch of crab apple jelly she had made from the crab apples from a tree in the Hospital grounds. Any funds raised from the sale of this jelly will be split between the Horticultural Society and the Hospital.  Thanks, Angela, for your hard work and initiative – we really appreciate it and the jelly tastes great.

There was a raffle for pea sprouts, generously donated by Erika. One batch was won by Liz Bowers, and the second one went to Virginia Cresswell-Jones.

The formal part of the meeting being over, everyone enjoyed coffee and snacks while catching up with friends.

2014 Fall Rose Show Results.

Single Rose – 1 bloom
1. Red : no entries
2. Light pink: Pat Stuckey
3. Deep pink: no entries
4. Yellow: Sandra Dowds
5. White: no entries
6. Orange and orange blends: Sandra Dowds
7. Blend and/or bicolour: Sandra Dowds
8. Any colour not in 1 to 7: no entries

Cluster Roses – 1 spray
9. Red and red blends: Colleen Green
10. Yellow and yellow blends: Pat Stuckey
11. Pink and pink blends: Sandra Dowds
12. Apricot, orange and blends: no entries
13. White: Pat Stuckey
14. Any other colour: Pat Stuckey

15. Floating Rose (foliage unnecessary): Pat Stuckey
16. Arrangement of at least 3 Roses in a container: Sandra Dowds
17. Miniature:1 bloom or spray: Sandra Dowds
18. Most Fragrant Rose – 1 bloom: Pat Stuckey
Best Rose: Pat Stuckey
Most Ribbons: Pat Stuckey

photo credits: Bert Jenkins

To see the Bert Jenkins’ photographs of roses from the show – » click here

Our Annual Fall Rose Show will take place on Wednesday, September 24th at the Society’s September meeting at the Fire Hall on Ross Street.
Entry set-up time is from 6:30 pm until 7:00 pm (when the meeting officially opens), with judging from 7:00 until 7:30 when the meeting’s formal program begins.

Judging will be done by Marvin Chapman from Flowers by Marvin.
Roses should have foliage attached and be named if possible.

Categories

Single Rose – 1 bloom
1. red
2. light pink
3. deep pink
4. yellow
5. white
6. orange and orange blends
7. blend and/or bicolour
8. any colour not in 1 to 7

Cluster Roses – 1 spray
9. red and red blends
10. yellow and yellow blends
11. pink and pink blends
12. apricot, orange and blends
13. white
14. Any other colour
15. Floating Rose (foliage unnecessary)
16. Arrangement of at least 3 Roses in a container
17. Miniature:1 bloom or spray
18. Most Fragrant Rose – 1 bloom

SPECIAL – Best Rose

For more info call Sandra 613 393 5577 or email to centuryhouse@sympatico.ca

Christine Gill, the Delphinium Lady was awesome. She had a very interesting talk and great advice about growing delphiniums.

Christine says it is best if you grow your own delphiniums from seed. Most of the seeds in garden centres are developed in California. Plants grown from these seeds will not be at all prolific in seed production in future years due to climate differences. You will do better long term with seed produced in Canada or the UK. She recommends Pro-Mix for the seedlings rather than a soil/compost mixture and says you should use deep pots so the plants can produce long roots. In the spring, get the plants ready for the big outdoors by putting the pots outside for a few hours a day for acclimatization. Seed started by the end of March should be ready to bloom by July/August the same year.

Delphiniums come in lots of colours and shades – blue, purple, white, dark red, pink and lavender. They can grow to as much as 8’ to 10’ high and plants can be as much as 3′ across.

You can join the Ontario Delphinium Club. Their website address is: www.ondelphiniums.com The annual membership is $10, which gets you four newsletters a year and a free packet of seeds. You can email them at: info@ondelphiniums.com for more information.

Christine finished by producing some delphiniums she had raised and brought in for us to buy. She had obviously stoked everyone’s enthusiasm for these flowers as she sold out of plants very rapidly

We tried a different format for the meeting with the speaker starting at 7:00 and breaking for 15 minutes after the speaker was finished and then continuing with the business part of the meeting. The response to this format was very positive and so we will continue with this in September.

After the social break, the meeting moved to ‘normal business’ and announcements.

Garden Show Update from Anne Reeves

• All the vendor space, inside and out, has been snapped up. We have 50 vendors total.
• Cookies and squares are needed for the Victorian Tea Room.
• Posters and rack cards are ready for distribution.
• There will be 3 speakers at the Show: Susan Meisner from Spindlewood Gardens, Peter Fuller from Fuller Nurseries, and chef Tina Morey to talk about cooking with herbs. We are selling tickets for these speakers. They cost $7 to hear one speaker and $15 to hear all three.

Arline de Bourbon made an appeal for volunteers for the Hospital Gardens to help with a major cleanup

Mini-Show

This month, the mini-show had entries in only one category: ‘A miniature design using fresh flowers’.

As customary, the entries were judged by the members present at the meeting: Pat Stuckey [left image below] came first, with Angela Palmer second [centre], and Mary Jenkins took third place [right].

Click the images to see larger versions.

photo credits: Bert Jenkins