Cowichan Valley Garden Club

Well, at the end of a long weekend, I will keep my President’s Report short by comparison, though please be sure to skim through for a few important items!

First of all, I hope you all enjoyed a delicious and hopefully restful Thanksgiving weekend with all your nearest and dearest. Did a last flush of blooms grace your tables? Did you enjoy vegetables or herbs from your own backyard as part of your Thanksgiving feasts? I hope many of you got to enjoy a harvest of your own making during this harvest season.

Our October meeting is this Wednesday.  Before I tell you who our speaker is, please remember to RENEW your membership!  If you did not renew last month, ’tis the (renewal) season.  Inflation may be driving up prices elsewhere, but we are still a great deal at $20.00 a year, payable by cash, cheque, e-transfer, or by card with our Square reader. Membership forms can be downloaded from the website and emailed to cowichangardenclub2@gmail.com or you can visit the membership table at the meeting.

Okay, now I will tell you about our exciting speaker this month.   It’s the fabulous Bryan Emery, proprietor of Bryan’s Specialty Plants, presenting about The Fascinating World of Succulents! Just what we need as we get into the seasons where our gardens are not quite as verdant.

For Parlour Show this month, we’ve got some exciting categories:

For design categories, wow us with your best Squash Surprise (design featuring squash) and/or Basic Bark (an “L” shape design featuring bark).

This month’s horticultural categories include fuschia, snapdragons, cyclamen, asters, pot marigolds, nerine, monkshood, and grass plume heads on the decorative side. And on the edible side of the horticultural entries, show us your apples, squash, or go all out and dazzle us with a non-judged Harvest Parade!

As always, full details for the Parlour Show schedule are available on the Cowichan Valley Garden Club website.

And finally, just a reminder that next month we DO have a garden club meeting scheduled on November 11th, and this date will also be our Annual General Meeting.

See you Wednesday,
Erin

p.s.  If you feel you should have been on the agenda for a committee report or something else and somehow got missed, you’re probably right!  I have the nagging sense I’ve left someone off but can’t find it written anywhere in my notes or in my inbox.  If this was you, my apologies!  Please reach out and we’ll add you as an addition to the agenda before starting the meeting.