Our participation in the recent Garden Festival Show has brought the Centre much recognition for the co-ordination of the educational exhibit area. A second benefit will undoubtedly be a better working relationship with the numerous specialty and general gardening clubs who mounted the various educational areas. Both Dorothy Whiteman and I had a chance to get to know many of the most active people in these clubs. It was a very rewarding experience to see so many people put in contact with other dedicated amateurs who share a common interest through gardening.
The exposure aspect for the Centre is an important consideration in deciding where we can best participate in outreach displays and sales. Public response to the availability of the gardening books and floral supplies was excellent. Sales in the 5 days matched our routine budgeted sales for half a month in the Trellis Shop. To accomplish these sales, we once again called on our volunteers, to help in preparing the goods for sale ahead of time as well as to man the actual sales area giving out helpful information on the products and books.
The Centre s information booth was also manned mostly by volunteers, promoting memberships, course registrations and talking up our library, and resident clubs such as the Green Thumbs and the Men s Garden Club.
Once again our volunteers really came through and I would like to add my public thanks and congratulations on a job well done to all our volunteer helpers and to Dorothy Whiteman, our volunteer co-ordinator for her dedicated work in supervising and co-ordinating the entire exhibit despite her recent illness.
Dorothy is currently busy lining up our information desk volunteers for the Garden Club of Toronto s Spring Flower and Garden Show, April 11 to 15th. With up to 20,000 people expected over the 5 days, the Centre will be a real beehive and our volunteers will be hard pressed to meet the extra time demands in manning the information desk, shop and library.
After the Garden Club s show, the Centre volunteers will again be pressed into service, organizing and manning the Spring Plant Sale - our major spring fund raiser. Please see the article on page 6 for more details.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
To approve accounts, elect directors, appoint an auditor, and transact any such business as may come before the meeting.
7:30 p.m. - Tuesday, APRIL 24, 1984 in the Garden Auditorium Civic Garden Centre, 777 Lawrence Ave. E. Don Mills
Hal Price will be looking after our donated plants and we will be trying a new plan it will be sticking to perennials only and you can pick up a list from Hal to let you know what types we are looking for. We want to get the clumps immediately after the Garden Club show so we can divide and pot up suitable size plants.
I am pleased to report our 1984 budget was approved with only minor revisions.
In addition to the budgetary proposals I presented, the preliminary feasibility report by Proctor and Redfern has been received and reviewed by the finance committee, the executive, and the full board. The board has voted to proceed with the improvements suggested by the study report in the knowledge that the Dunington Grubb Foundation have approved a further grant in addition to the cost of this feasibility study itself.
Lecture and slide presentation available e Dwarf Evergreens e ® Heathers ®Japanese Maples ® ® Rhododendrons ®
(416) 562-4836
P.O. Box 98 ® Martin Road Vineland Station, Ont. N ga o Jde,
The Dunington Grubb grant will cover the full cost of the modifications to the stage lighting system, including the dimmer control panel. The board of the Civic Garden Centre has authorized the expenditure of up to $25,000 for further improvements within the main area of the floral hall, Improvements will include metal halide fixtures to produce an even brightness throughout the central area. Provision of feature lighting along the South, East and West wall areas and provision of ample electrical outlets around the entire perimeter as well as drop type coils for hydro outlets in the centre of the hall.
The new lighting promises to be cooler operating as well as much simpler for the user groups to work with. Improved overall light levels will make the room much fairer for judged shows as well as brigher and more cheerful for the general public.
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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Mar. 25 Ikenobo Ikebana Soc. - Toronto Chapter - 21st Annual Flower Show from 1 to 6 p.m.
26 Creative Nature Crafts - demonstration and lecture on Pine Cone Animals and Corn Husk Crafts
28 Hobby Greenhouse meeting 8 p.m. - Speaker will be Rick Brooker on Organic Fertilizer
29 Advanced Corsage Workshop from 10 am to 3 pm for anyone who has taken a Basic Corsage
Apr. 1 Toronto Gesneriad Soc. meeting 2 p.m. - A slide programme by Gordon Wick on Selection, Planting & Care of Hanging Gesneriads
1 S. Ont. Orchid Soc. meeting 1 - 5 p.m. A short talk on Orchid Basics and a slide program on Visit to Growers in the Western U.S.
3 Mens Garden Club meeting 8 p.m. The program will beInsecticide and Weed Control by Barry J. Watt of Ciba Geigy
7 Vegetable Garden Lecture - Saturday morning 10 am to 12 noon
11 - 15 Garden Club of Toronto - SPRING FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW Times on Wed. to Fri. 10 am to 9 pm Sat. & Sun. 10 am - 6 pm
17 North Toronto Hort. Soc. meeting 8.15 pm - Topic will be Marjorie Mason on Geraniums
18 Photography course starts for 6 weeks at 7.30 p.m.
24 C.G.C. ANNUAL MEETING - 7:30p.m. - To approve accounts, elect directors, appoint an auditor, and transact any such business as may come before the meeting. Also Audrey Meiklejohn will give a talk and show slides titled Island Hopping in the South Pacific
25 Hobby Greenhouse meeting 8 p.m. - Jim Baxter will be talking on Irrigation Systems
26 Can. Chrysanthemum Soc. meeting 8p.m. - A representative from Kodak will talk and show slides on flowers
May 1 Mens Garden Club meeting at 8 p.m.
5 Junior Garden Club (Green Thumbs) 9:30 am to noon
6 S. Ont. Orchid Soc. meeting 1 - 5 p.m.
7 Rhododendron SALE 7.30 p.m.
8 North Toronto Hort. Soc. meeting 8.15 p.m. PLANT SALE
9 Ikebana Int. Toronto Chapter 208 - Spring workshop,bring material
10 Can. Chrysanthemum Soc. PLANT SALE 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
12 ORCHID SHOW - S. Ont. Orchid Soc. - Open to public 12 noon - 6p.m.
13 ORCHID SHOW 9a.m. - 5p.m.
13 Toronto Gesneriad Soc. meeting 2 - 4 p.m. - Reviewing Show Schedule and Preparation of Plants
14 Toronto Bonsai So. meeting 8 pm Practical workshop meeting Hands-On session - styling of trees, potting & wiring
May 16 Civic Garden Centre PLANT SALE - Pre-orders 5p.m.- 8p.m.
17 & 18 C.G.C.s SPRING BOX PLANT SALE - Open to Public 12 - 8pm
The CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE
President Mr. Colin Ierrington
1st Vice - President Mrs. Camilla Dalglish
2nd Vice - President Mr. Donald McLaren
Secretary = Mr. Gordan iD.. " Wick
Treasurer Mr. Donuald G. McLaren
Board of Directors:
For VON 3 Mr. Colin I'errington, Dr. Albert M. Fisher, Mrs. Janeth Cooper, Mrs. Shirley Irvine, Mrs. Helen Skinner, Mr. Douglas Thomas, Mrs. Dodie Wesley
For 1983 & 1984: Mrs. Camilla Dalglish, Mrs. Rae Fowler, Mrs. Mae MacMillan, Ms. Nancy Mallett, Mr. Donald McLaren, Mr. Grant Ross, Mr. Fidenzio Salvatori, Mr. Howard Stensson
For 1983, 1984 & 1985: Dr. Brian Bixley, Mi. i Charles . Cotfev.v Mr. - Peter - :Hand, Mrs. Hazel Lyonde, Mr. Monte Watler, Mr. Robert G. Bundy
General Information
Volume 11, No. 4
ISSN 0380-1470
Editor: Gordon D. Wick, Exec. Dir. Assistant Editor: Grace Tughan Advertising Inform. (416) 445-1552
Trellis is published ten times per year as a member s newsletter, by the Civic Garden Centre, 777 Lawrence Ave. East, Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1P2 Telephone (416)445-1552
The Centre is located in Edwards Gardens, at Leslie St. and Lawrence Avenue East, at the geographical centre of Metropolitan Toronto. It is a non-profit, volunteer based, gardening and floral arts information organization with open membership. Opinions expressed within do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre. Printed by Munns Press Ltd., Whitby, Ont.
Civic Garden Centre - Spring Hours Shops and Library: Mon. to Fri. 9:30 -5, Sat, Sun.12-5
Administration: Mon - Fri. 9:30 - 4:30
COMING EVENTS AT THE CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE
Art at the CentreIn the Link Gallery:
Mar. 16 - Apr. 4 - Maude Wilkie watercolours and oils of flowers landscapes and scenes of Nigerian village life
April 18 - 30 - Lena Wilson Endicott and June Thomson - Painters in watercolour and acrylic, landscape, still-life and portrait
May 2 - 20 - Eva Tannahill watercolours titled Nature s Way
May 15 - 31 - Paul Scrivener photographer - The Secret Garden
Apr. 18 Photography course6 week course at 7:30 pm
Apr. 18 Container Gardening4 week course at 8 p.m.
Apr. 26 Basic Corsage workshop at 1:30 p.m. or 7:00 p.m.
May 3 Japanese Beginners Flower Arranging (Sogetsu School) 8 weeks at 1:30(see inside Trellis for details)
May 10 Basic Flower Arranging 5 week course at 9:45 am 1:30 pm or 8:00 pm
May 16 Beginners Japanese Flower Arranging (Ikenobo School) 5 week course 8 pm ONLY (see inside Trellis for details)
A MEDICINAL GARDEN FOR
Royal Botanical Gardens
Hamilton, Canada
Royal Botanical Gardens is delighted to announce that a major grant of $25,000 has been offered by Associated Medical Services Inc. for the construction of a medicinal garden. It is expected that work will begin on the garden in 1984.
The first Botanic Gardens in Europe, as is well known, were set up to support schools of medicine at Renaissance Universities at a time when plants were the firm base of curative and preventive medicine. Virtually all our current culinary herbs were included there ,as were many of the most poisonous plants known to man. Those European gardens concentrated upon European plants and every civilization seems to have such a folkmedicine base.
The first settlers in North America brought with them their traditional European plants and quickly incorporated the Native People s cures into their pharmacopaeia. The neglect into which this plant based medicine subsequently fell in the western world has no such parallel in China and India, both of which countries continue to use a wide range of species.
Today, here too, there is a revival of interest in medicinal plants at a range of levels which a living collection of them can serve. Interest may be antiquarian, it can be concerned with social history, it can be chemical, it is bound to be botanical, and of course, it can be of current medical relevance. Thus, seed lists from Botanic Gardens all over the world are being searched for the required species and this effort is supported by a donation of $500 from the Ontario Diploma in Horticulture Graduates Association with which RBG s Director was presented at the ODH Dinner in June.
Mini Rose Nursery
Collector of Miniature Roses
I'or list and map Write Florence Gahagan
P.O. Box 873, Guelph, Ont. NIH 6M6
Cherry Tree Gardens
Consultation - Design
Small Garden Specialist 922-5179
NEW SPRING HOURS
Trellis Shop and Library
Open Mon to Fri 9:30 to 5 pm Sat and Sun 12 noon to 5 pm
We care about your gardening problems. Come and see us at our unique Garden Centre and Greenhouses.
Trellis Shop
We have received many requests for wildflower seeds. Those of you who enjoy wildflowers, and one would expect that to be just about everyone, will be pleased to hear that any day now we will be receiving a shipment of Aimers wildflower seeds for landscaping. Mr. Aimers is responsible for the beautiful wildflower planting at the Prime Minister s residence and many of you will have heard Art Drysdale s complimentary comments about him on a recent Saturday morning programme. Mr. Aimers has agreed to provide the Centre with reasonably priced seed mixtures to vary for different conditions. Each mixture will include seeds for Spring, Summer and Fall viewing.
Just a reminder that we have an excellent selection of seeds in stock now as well as the ingredients for preparing your soil mixtures. We have, also, a new selection of gardening aprons in cotton and plasticized cotton for easy cleaning, gardening gloves and trowels, etc.
For flower arranging, we have received a shipment of one-of-a-kind, hand crafted containers, for Ikebana, priced from $15.00 to $30.00. For flower arranging and interior decorating purposes, we have jars of clear glass marbles in three sizes.
Many other new and interesting items are arriving every day and at reasonable prices.
SPRING PLANT SALE
All the little elves of the Civic Garden Centre who magically plan and prepare for events at the Centre have been hard at work planning our annual Spring Plant Sale.
The dates have been set; at the crack of dawn on Wednesday the 16th of May we will receive all of the plants and with the help of numerous volunteers (we hope) we will spend the day preparing the pre-orders ready for pick-up that same day, between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The actual public sale will be on Thursday the 17th of May from noon to 8 p.m. AND on Friday the 18th of May again from noon to 8 p.m.
As you may remember our public sale usually lasts only one day but we have tried to accommodate those of you who will be eager to be off for the first long weekend of the year.
The Spring Plant Sale is an important source of income to the Centre so please tell your friends and neighbours about it and encourage them to come.
Pre-order forms will be available every day at the Centre and everyone is welcome to use them.
As usual when we have an event like this we have to ask for help from our volunteers and members. On Wednesday the 16th of May we will need plenty of help especially from those of you who know an impatiens from a cabbage. The 17th and 18th of May we will need cashiers and sales help as well as some muscle power to help keep everything tidy and organized.
If you can spare a few hours (we promise not to overwork you), please call me (Dorothy Whiteman). Remember we need you.
The CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE
SPRING PLANT SALES
Pre-Orders - Wednesday, May 16th, 1984 5 pm to 8 pm
Public Sale - Thursday & Friday, May 17th & 18th, 12 noon to 8 pm
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The plants listed on this order form are nursery grown for the Civic Garden Centre. Take advantage of our pre-order and pick up offer to ensure the full range of plant materials. - Please order before APRIL 30th, 1984. Total payment must be included with your order. Your special selection is to be picked up on Wednesday, May 16 th between S pm and 8 pm ONLY. Please see the clerk in the cloak room at the bottom of the entrance ramp.
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Over 2000 different hardy plans, alpines, dwarf conifers and shrubs, Hardy ferns, vines, groundcovers and native wildflowers
Send $1. for a plant list by mail to above address
BOOK REVIEW
WILD AND OLD GARDEN ROSES
by Gordon Edwards Cloth $16.25
The Wild and Old Garden Roses of the title are a variety of rose, both sturdy and disease resistant, appealing particularly to the gardener who wants the beauty of a rose garden, without the dedication and work demanded by the more difficult hybrids.
The author describes some 240 such roses and gives instructions for soil preparation,
planting, pruning, care and pest control. The book, which is attractively illustrated with full colour plates and line drawings, is larded throughout with quotations, snippets of history, examples of Mr. Edward s dry humour, and both readable and informative.
This, the American edition, contains an appendix, listing gardens in the USA where wild and old garden roses may be seen and more information can be sought and includes an extensive bibliography of further reading.
The book is available from the Giftshop.
Where Great Gardens
At your closest Sheridan Garden Centre you will find the finest selection of nursery stock in Canada, including more than 750 varieties of plants and trees grown on Sheridan s own farms.
Begin. And Sheridan s nursery stock is guaranteed for one full year. At Sheridan Garden Centres you will also find qualified nurserymen who will be pleased to help you in any way they can.
LANDSCAPE DEPARTMENTS: Metropolitan Toronto 621-9111, East Toronto/Markham 477-1499, Kitchener/Waterloo 743-4146.
SPRING FLOWER ARRANGING COURSES
4045 BASIC FLOWER ARRANGING
5 week course on THURSDAYS MAY 10,17,24,31 and JUNE 7th, 1984
TIME and INSTRUCTORS
9:45 morning - Mary Linney
1:30 afternoon - Ella Irving
8:00 evening - Pam Wright
FEE: $20. mem. $25.non-mem.
Particulars: Please Bring To The First Class
1. Small low container about 10 in diameter (oblong or round)
2. Small pincup or holder
3. 5 or 7 blooms (some to be in bud) also a few leaves of foliage
4. 2 or 3 slender branches, beauty of line NO SHORTER THAN 18
5 Sharp knife or garden snips and carton to carry home finished arrangement
Flower Arranging Equipment Available for Purchase At The Civic Garden Centre Shop - Open during the Day. Flowers & Branches Not Available.
4046 BEGINNERS JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGING
PLEASE NOTE AN EVENING COURSE
5 week workshop on WEDNESDAYS MAY 16,23,30,JUNE 6 and 13th, 1984
TIME: 8:00 p.m. EVENING
FEE: $20. mem. $25. non-mem.
Instructor: Mrs. S. Kadoguchi, Renowed Sensei, of the Ikenobo School assisted by Mrs. Ella Irving
First Evening - Please Bring -
1. Flat type container - Not Glass
2. Pinholder - heavy
3. Clippers
Flowers and branches will be provided at approx. $2.50 per evening
NEW COURSE NEVER OFFERED AT CENTRE BEFORE
4042 JAPANESE BEGINNERS (SOGETSU SCHOOL)
8 week course on THURSDAYS MAY 3,10,17,24,31, JUNE 7,14 ,and 21st, 1984
TIME: 1:30 p.m. Instructor: Ada Smith
FEE: $30. mem. $35. non-mem.
First Day - A lecture and demonstration and what to bring the following week Please bring notebook and pencil.
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HINTS FOR GARDEN DESIGN
by Peter Thomas, Landscape Architect
Garden design is basically a functional & visual division of space. Functional aspects vary with each individual gardener or family. As a first step in design, I think it is a good idea to hang a piece of paper in a convenient location and fill out a list of needs as you think of them, much like a grocery list. This sounds simplistic but is surprising how we so often fail at the first step. The next task is to very carefully analyse the sun and shade conditions and the nature of the soil. Soil is easily ammended and spare no expense. Manure is my favourite. It is hard to get but the effort is well worth it. The sun/shade situation is anothr.¢ story. Northern and eastern exposures are shady but I have found that trees are by far a greater nuisance since they affect moisture and soil nutrients as well. Do not try to battle shade but use it as a resource. There are many plants that thrive in shade. Incidently, grass is not one. This early analysis of site conditions must be done thoroughly or failure is inevitable.
Before you can move to the next stage, you must understand a few basic design principles. Always remember that plants are only a small part of the solution.
For brevity, I will list some elements:
1. space - containment of visual environment by fences, walls, shrubery, hedges.
2. development of foreground, midground, background and overhead plane (sky).
development of focal points/vistas.
4. symetrical and asymetrical design.
5. understanding of colour - what colours go together
These elements are not easy for the lay person to deal with and quite frankly the assistance of a design professional is more than worth the cost. Many people feel that small gardens are easy but really they are not. One must be very economical, often making one area work for several purposes, or skillfully creating illusions of space. Garbage cans, compost piles, tool storage, etc., must be carefully disguised.
DRYSTONE \WALL
More specifically, I would like to elaborate on structure in the garden. I believe that stone walls, fences, trellises, pergolas, hard curbs and changes of level are the backbone of the garden and the foil for the plant material. Plants can be part of the garden structure but several problems can occur. First, the effect is not immediate so we often overplant or use species that grow fast and eventually overwhelm. Smaller scale plants crow slowly and will perform better in the long run. There is also a tendency to avoid hard pruning because of the desire for a large plant for privacy. This results in leggy poor specimens. A sad example is an overgrown forsythia - it looks leggy, and does not even produce blooms. A well grown forsythia is probably less than 6 feet (2m) high with no branches over 3 years old.
In my opinion, if you want privacy, build a fence. If you want shade, build a pergola for now and plant a tree that will be in proper scale when it is mature. Some pears and hawthorns are my favourites. With trees, be patient!
My final comments concern the use of grade (level) changes and hard edges to define and organize spaces in the garden. Grade changes under 30 (Im) can easily be handled with drystone walls or wood walls (treated). These are easily built by the nonprofessional. Wood edges using 2x4 s (6 s or 8 s) staked every 3 ft. (1m) are easy. Cement bricks can also be used although they are subject to frost
heaving. None of the above require frost free foundations which makes installation easy. Pressure treated wood has revolutionized the use of wood structures for fences, decks, edges and walls. It lasts at least 20 years and, if you don t mind a colour which is green at first, fading to silver grey, never requires painting. There is a cost premium but it is well worth it. The sketch below is a small garden using several of the design elements discussed and I hope a picture is worth a thousand words because I am limited to a page or two.
Peter Thomas is available for consultation and design of residential and commercial gardens. Telephone (416) 365-1855
Now isthetime . s
by Ernest Pope
APRIL GARDEN SCHEDULE
April 1st - 5th
Rake the lawn with a soft tined rake and feed it with a high nitrogen fertilizer such as 10-6-4 or 21-7-7. It may be necessary to seed bare spots in the lawn now but general seeding is better done in September when there are heavy dews at night and less competition from weeds.
April 6th - 10th
Fertilize shrubs, flowering trees and perennials with a general purpose low nitrogen fertilizer such as 4-12-8, 6-12-12 or 7-7-7. Use it on the tulip beds just as soon as the shoots appear above the ground. Broadcast it over the bed and the spring rains will wash it into the ground. Spread a few handfuls very lightly over the rockery.
April 12th
Remove winter protection & mulches from all early flowering bulbs and perennials, especially in the rock garden.
April 15th
Time to spray iris clumps with Cygon 2E to eliminate the borers. Do it again April 20th. Failure to protect your plants from this pest will often result in their complete destruction.
Hardy Annuals From Seed
Bells of Ireland
California Poppy
Larkspur
Matricaria
Phlox Drummondi
Sweet Alyssum
April 15th
Time to start Hardy vegetables from seed. The varieties listed below can be sown outdoors as soon as the soil can be worked and will not be damaged by late frosts. They make their best growth when the weather is cool.
Beets Lettuce Radish
* Broccoli Onion Swiss Chard
* Cabbage Parsnip Spinach
# Cauliflower Parsley Turnip Carrot Peas
* Because of the long growing period needed this vegetable is usually started from seeds sown indoors about Mar. 15th, or from plants purchased from a nursery.
Tomatoes
April 1st is a good date to start this most popular of all vegetables. Earlier seeding will produce severely elongated plants. To prevent this, plants can have their tips nipped out when they are five or six inches tall. However, if they still have a tendency to fall over, all is not lost because when they are planted out the long stems can be laid down and covered with soil, leaving only two or three inches of the main stem tip showing above ground. Tomatoes are stem rooters and the additional roots will give you equally good results. The short sturdy stemmed plants, available at nurseries, are created by being sprayed with growth retardents such as Cycocel or B-nine.
Tomatoes in the home garden should always be staked - not only to provide maximum sunlight to the plants, but to get the crop off the ground, where they will otherwise be ruined by slugs. Even then they will often climb up into the lower branches of the plants. To counteract this, slug bait should be placed at the bottom of each plant, just as they start to change colour and repeated, if they persist, every 10 days
Name pronunciations -
Aubrietia - AW-BREE=TAH
Browallia - BRO-WAL-EE-AH
Cleome - KLEE-O-ME
Cyclamen - SIK-LA-MEN
Yucca - YUK-A
Pansies
Plant pansy plants in early April. They are immune to spring frosts. They bloom best in the cool days of April and May. They deteriorate during the hot summer weather, with the flowers becoming increasingly smaller. They can be purchased now at nurseries. If you wait until mid May, when the plents are in full bloom, you may experience a short blooming period. They are not an annual but a biennial, hence their hardiness.
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Impatiens Show Stopper
Probably the most striking impatiens to date, with its beautiful 1% to 2 bright pink blooms, with deep rose eyes and dark green foliage. The seed was introduced by Ball-Superior, who refer to it as the hanging basket impatiens . A basket of this variety in full bloom is indeed a show stopper. The plant is self branching, so requires no pinching. The writer has only grown it in containers but there is no reason why it shouldn t do well in flower beds (as is the case with cascade petunias). It is extremely free flowering and is a must for every garden. It is, of course, too late now to grow them from seed, but plants should be available at nurseries.
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