Last Year's Tomatoes

A look back at warmer and yummier days last fall...

Great production from this variety this summer. Better Boy (vfn). Uniform ripening in the store room picked a few weeks ago before the first real killing frost.

 

Roma

Tomatoes ripening nicely.Here are a few Better Boy var.(VFN) larger red tomatoe, Lemon Boy (var), (yellow) tomatoes, and a few remaining Patio tomatoes (var ?). Still firm and delicious.

shared by members Olivia Shumski and Ken MacDonald

Cardinal Basil from Last Fall

Decorative and delicious Cardinal Basil. Grown in a herb basket, Full sun, with rosemary and tarragon. Very pungent and flavourful. Good for sauces, soups, on pizza, or chopped and served with sliced tomatoes. This variety can be grown in borders and has a colorful deep purple bloom. Very forgiving in comparison to Sweet Basil, and will tolerate dryer conditions. Like when you forget to water it! Leaves are slow to dry but  when ready are crushed and stored in glass jar for use.We are keeping this plant growing inside for part of the winter!

shared by member Olivia Shumski

Rhododendron Update

 Photographed earlier this spring with a few blooms, this Finlandia variety has done well and summer has been good for the plants. Regular feeding, plenty of  and frequent watering, has resulted in good growth, and a large number of buds for next spring's bloom. The plan is not to mulch for winter, but to keep covered with snow. (hopefully the cats will deter mice dining on them).

shared by member Ken MacDonald, October 16, 2012

2014 Membership coming due!

Membership renewal for the 2014 year is coming due. They can be renewed :

• at the Christmas party
• by renewing online at reginahortsociety.com and paying through paypal (after Dec. 1st)
• sending printed renewal form and payment by mail to: RHS c/o Alan Mlazgar, Box 1521, Fort Qu'appelle, SK S0G 1S0

The fees for the upcoming year have remained the same and are as follows:

• Family (2 adults and children under 16) $25.00/year
• Individual $20.00/year
• Senior (over 65) $15.00/year
• Junior (under 16) $5.00/year
• Corporate $75.00/year

For further inquiries/questions please e-mail Alan at membership@reginahortsociety.com

Extending the Season!

I am experimenting with a purchased cold frame to extend our growing season

 

I anchored the cold frame in early October in one of our garden beds. I prepared the soil by adding compost, but kept the kale and some small carrots that were already there. As I anchored the base, I also ensured that it was level. That way, the top pieces would fit better.  After seeding with a variety of lettuce and radish, I build up a bit of soil on both the inside and outside of the cold frame walls. Over the course of the next few weeks, I added leaves and grass cuttings to insulate inside and out, but I added some rigid Styrofoam pieces outside as well.

 

As the weather grew colder,  I covered the unit with a transparent clear plastic sheet. Last week, I topped that with some landscape cloth, to see if I could use that to heat the inside garden during the day. So far, so good

 

We are enjoying a fresh salad every day. The only drawback is that the leaves are very fragile once they are plucked, and have to be prepared right away. Oh, but the taste is wonderful!

 

We will most likely harvest everything before the end of the month. We will use this again in early spring.

 

shared by member Susan Nadon

'California Wonder'

 

 This is one of six 'California Wonder' pepper plants grown in 10" pots. They are very productive, have a large root system so tend to need water every second day in the heat. Love fertilizer. A great summer for them. First fruit picked in July. Fruit goes from green to red, tasty either way! Some are still in our store room, seem to keep well but aren't changing colour. Many went for stuffed peppers in the freezer.

shared by member Ken MacDonald

Morning Glory Madness

 

Planted in  mid June, three plants of this morning glory (multi-petal, small purple flower) were planted with the hopes of just filling up some of this trellis, as the sweet peas weren't doing so well. Tendrils were everywhere, growth was profuse, leaves enormous. They took over!

Somewhere in this planting are two planter boxes of wave petunia, dwarf petunia and bacopa. Anyone grow morning glory this year?

Shared with us by our editor, member Ken MacDonald. Photo taken on October 16, 2012.

New Gallery Photos

New gallery photos are posted. From nostalgic images of winter gardens to morning glory that were blooming last October, members have shared some of their garden photos with us. Check them out by clicking here!

This photo was taken by our membership director, Alan Mlazgar in his garden on January 4, 2013. The gallery version is much larger and stunning in detail.

Thank you to all the members that share their photos with us! We love to browse garden photos.

Tomato Vegetable Soup

Tomato Vegetable soup recipe, served and enjoyed at the SHA convention, from member Beth Graas. We hope you enjoy!

Tomato Vegetable Soup 3 tbsp. butter 1 cup diced onion 1/2 cup diced potato 1/2 cup diced carrot 3 Tbsp. flour 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 2 cup chicken stock 14 oz. canned tomatoes crushed 1 tsp. sugar 1/2 cup cream or top milk Put butter, onion, potato, and carrot in saucepan. Saute until onion and carrot are soft and clear. Mix in flour, salt, pepper. Add chicken stock (slowly). Stir until it boils and thickens. Simmer 10 minutes. Add tomatoes and sugar. Heat through. Stir in cream. DO NOT BOIL after adding cream. Makes about 4 cups. I do not use the cream as I find it "creamy" enough without. Does give it a different flavour though. I do not use canned tomatoes - just cook the fresh ones from the garden until they are the consistency I want them and add to the soup when required.

Groundcover: Forget-Me-Not

Forget-me-not makes a fantastic groundcover for areas that get a lot of shade. It will bloom in part shade or full sun but it does tend to wither in full Saskatchewan sun. It is a biennial that self-seeds so it does not take long to grow from a few plants into a very large patch. My patch has white and blue flowers. The blue flowers fade to pink so at more than one point each year, there are 3 colours of blooms in this spot. I grow Forget-me-not in 2 spots here. This shady spot, under trees and with Hosta and in a sunny spot where it needs afternoon protection provided by an old slide. One of the nicest things about Forget-me-not is that you can pretty much ignore it and get at least 3 waves of blooms in a single patch. If you treat it nice, you will get more! 

contributed by member Danielle Carrier

Anyone still harvesting?

A little while ago, member Denise Mlazgar sent in these photo's. Sharing her harvest and the fun that her daughter Chanelle and grandson, Aidan had while helping put the garden to bed for the season. For me, little Aidan reminds me of all the things I loved about gardens when I was a child.

 

I look at these and then out my window, where pots of daylily and bags of iris rhisomes still need to be planted, and I wonder... is mine the only garden not ready for winter?

New Gallery Photos

Be sure and check out our gallery. Member Beth Graas has shared some of her garden photos with us. Check out her kitchen view in March vs. September!

Annual General Meeting

RHS Annual General Meeting Notice is up on the website now. Details are: Thursday, October 24,7:30pm
Neil Balkwill Centre,2420 Elphinstone Street (map)

Mark your calendars! We hope to see you all there!

Groundcover: Pinks

The name is deceptive since Pinks are not always pink. There are many varieties of what we commonly call Pinks and all of them are great groundcover.

One of the nicest things about Pinks is that their foliage does not look weedy at all. It is clear, even when they are not blooming, that they are a plant. And quite pretty foliage it is.

Flower size and colour can vary but none of them become large, tall plants or have big flowers. There are pink, red and white blooming varieties. Foliage ranges from blue to dark green and most shades of green between. This makes them very versatile in every garden.

Some of them are spring blooming and slow spreading while others bloom all season long and spread faster with seeds that germinate easily in the garden. All of them are delightful!


contributed by member Danielle Carrier

Misprint - Birds in the Backyard

Just a heads up that the Prairie dog incorrectly published the date of our "Birds in the Backyard" event.  It is Thurs. Sept. 12 at 6:30 (Meeting at the entrance of the Neil Balkwill).  Thanks to one of our members for catching that!

Birds in the Backyard
Thursday, September 12, 2013  |  6:30pm
Neil Balkwill Centre, 2420 Elphinstone Street (map)
Meet at the front entrance.

Trevor Herriot, of CBC Radio's Birdline, will lead us on a short walk from the Neil Balkwill Centre across Rotary Park to his home to talk about backyard bird feeding. Returning to the Balkwill Centre, he will show slides and talk about common back yard birds for people who live in Regina and area. Bring binoculars if you have them.

Join us for this three part session! 1) Short walk and talk. 2) Tour of Trevor's backyard feeders. 3) Short presentation.

Trevor Herriot is a prairie naturalist, illustrator and award winning writer. His new book is Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds. It won two Saskatchewan Book Awards, and was short-listed for the Writer’s Trust Non-fiction Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (non-fiction).

His first book, River in a Dry Land: a Prairie Passage, won the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Best First Book, as well as the Writer’s Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and two Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was also short-listed for a Governor’s General Award. His second book, Jacob’s Wound: a Search for the Spirit of Wildness, was short-listed for the Writer’s Trust Award for Non-Fiction.

His writing has appeared in the Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic, Nature Canada, and several anthologies. He has written two radio documentaries for CBC Ideas and is a monthly guest on CBC Radio Saskatchewan’s Blue Sky.

Trevor’s blog, Grass Notes, discusses many of the stories and issues raised in Grass, Sky, Song.

He lives in Regina with his wife Karen and their four children. They spend as much time as possible at a piece of prairie south of Indian Head, which they share with two other families.

Groundcover: Anemone

My other favourite is Anemone. It reseeds itself and can become quite invasive if you don't keep an eye on it. I don't know much about it, just that my father always grew them and I planted this one in his memory. I think it might be Snowdrop.

 

contributed by member Hazel MacMurchy

 

Editor's Note: I grow Anemone as well and it likes sun or shade. It is very reliable but finishes blooming early in the season. Luckily, the foliage is quite pretty on its own.

Birds in the Backyard

We have an exciting event coming up on September 12! Learn all about your backyard Birds with Trevor Harriot of CBC Birdline.

SHA Convention - September 27 & 28

 

Friday & Saturday, September 27-28, 2013  |  All Day Event
Westhill Park Baptist Church, 8025 Sherwood Dr. Regina, SK. (map)
Registration and Coffee 8:30am to 9am on Friday and Saturday

RHS is proud to be hosting the 2013 Saskatchewan Horticultural Association Convention.

Friday
The Intricacies of Saving Seeds by Jim Ternier
Tour of Government House
Prairie Gardens by Victor Cicansky and Bernie Zaharich
Saturday
Growing Fruits Organically by Dean Kreutzer
Strategies for Growing Membership by Danielle Carrier

Lunch will be served both Friday and Saturday
Friday evening Banquet Refreshments and Socializing 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Banquet starts @ 6:30pm, entertainment to follow.

New this year: Mini Trade Show on site!

Fund Raising: Silent Auction items greatly appreciated.
We are also asking attendees to bring some perennials to sell.

For more information click here!

Garden Festival !

 

Garden Festival information is updated on our website. Hours are: Friday, August 23, 9am - 9pm and Saturday, August 24, 9am - 4:30pm. We want to thank the Golden Mile Shopping Centre for their continued support of this event. Come on out, check out what grows here and let's get growing!

Groundcover: Goutweed

Goutweed is often confused with Snow-in-Summer but there are big differences. For one, goutweed is very, very invasive. I do not recommend planting it where you cannot contain it. If you have a spot to contain it, it can be absolutely lovely and fill a lot of empty space really quickly. In addition, if kept out of our hot afternoon sun, it looks good all season as well.

Goutweed is a part shade plant. Leaves will burn and curl in very hot sun. It grows about 24" but does not sit up that high. Instead it kind of flops over into mounds of minty green and white.

The flowers are insignificant white, airy things that sit well above the leaves on thin stalks that shoot upward. It is best to cut these off before they go to seed because Goutweed will spread both by root and by seed and it spreads fast!

I grow it all along my drive edge at the lower level where it lives under the cover of a lot of trees. Only goutweed would do this well along this wall. I do have to ruthlessly pull it back from overtaking the drive about twice a year. The display is worth the effort.

Warning: Do not plant Goutweed in your garden proper unless you want only Goutweed growing within a year or two. It is difficult to get rid of once established.

contributed by member Danielle Carrier

Pictures are up!

Pictures are up from our 2013 RHS Bus Tour. You can see them in our gallery by clicking here!

Groundcover: Alyssum

One of my favorite perennial groundcovers is perennial Alyssum. Mine is 'Pot of Gold'.

 

Started from seed and does need cleaning up in the spring of dead parts but will bless you with lots of lovely yellow blooms. Lasts most of the summer, but is finished blooming by mid August. It needs sun and of course some water, but is generally an easy keeper.

 

contributed by member Hazel MacMurchy

RHS Bus Tour a Huge Success!

Our Bus Tour was a huge success and we would like to thank everyone who came out for this event! A couple of you wrote to say just how much you enjoyed it and we wanted to share those kudos here...

" Thank you for organizing the garden tour on July 18th. The tour was well organized, interesting, informative and fun. This was my first garden tour with the Regina Horticultural Society. I am so glad that I signed up. It was a wonderful day. The variety of the places we toured was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the tour and plan to attend other tours. I have told family, friends and co-workers of the great tour as I want others to participate."

- Leta  

"Thanks so much for all your time and energy in organizing! It was a fabulous trip and I enjoyed all of it."

 

 

Happy Dancing,

Linda 

Prairie Permaculture Event Yorkton - Vertical Gardening and Raised Beds

Another August event by Prairie Permaculture. If you can't make one, maybe you can make the other!

Urban Permaculture
Vertical Gardening and Raised Beds – August 25, 2013

Space is limited! Reserve your spot early by contacting Rob or Stacey by telephone at 306.782.1613 or email Stacey.
  “It’s not about how much land you have, but how much land you can control”“so grow as close to home as possible, use vertical intensive systems at the doorstep”

Urban Permaculture lends itself well to creativity. Your garden can be one of whimsy and high productivity. In this workshop you’ll learn about different intensive systems (including a herb spiral) and how to build raised beds. You will gain knowledge into what works well together (companion planting) and how to use guilds for maximum productivity. There will also be a presentation on Urban Permaculture. (the one I gave at this years’ Seedy Saturday)

Time: 2-4pm
Where: 151 and 155 Gladstone Ave. North, Yorkton (parking on road)
*meet at 155 Gladstone Ave. North
When: Sunday August 25, 2013
Cost: $25

Groundcover

No garden is complete without a groundcover or two. Mine has several more than two! Groundcovers fall into many, many categories. There are traditional groundcovers, some bloom, some don't, some are tall, some are small, some are self-seeding, some spread by root, some spread by root and self-seed, many are invasive and must be contained. And then there are all the plants that are not actually groundcovers but can easily be used as such.

Groundcover can be used to line a fence, wall or path. They can be used to drape down a wall or cascade out a plant pot. They can fill in bare spots or completely take over your garden. I have been thinking a lot about groundcover lately, as I try to contain some of the more invasive ones in my garden and look to divide others. What I have found is that it is always a good idea to think before planting with groundcovers. Although the slow spreading types can be played with, moved around and highlighted in the garden, the invasive types are almost impossible to get rid of once they take hold. One of the big benefits is that all groundcover are very good at keeping weeds at bay.

Consider adding a few groundcovers to your garden! Stay tuned for our plant profile posts featuring groundcovers!

This article adapted from that originally published in Let's Get Growing!July 2013. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, sign up here!

Prairie Permaculture Event Yorkton - Food Forest Design

Check out this awesome event being held by Prairie Permaculture in August!

Food Forest Design
Personal Projects August 10 or 11, 2013

Gain insight and experience into the process of Food Forest design – this workshop includes design time for you to work on your own design. We will be there for guidance, consulting and questions. This workshop is a follow up to our June workshop – Food Forests for the Urban Space. Yard tour included as we discuss what guilds and perennial systems we are implementing to expand on our Food Forest design. Contact us for more details as there are some things you need to get ready for your design work! Our plan for this year is to help people put together some food forest designs for themselves (with our help of course!) and then organize some permablitz implements for the following year! You could have your design come to life and planted in 2014 for FREE.

Cost: $60 person* – lunch included
*20% total price discount if you reserve your spot for both Food Forest Workshops!
SAVE $20 off the total cost of both Food Forest Workshops
with 20% discount you pay only $80 for both workshops!
When: Offering both days Saturday August 10 and Sunday August 11
(so pick one of the days!)
Time: 11am – 4pm
Where: 155 Gladstone Ave. N, Yorkton

Contact Rob or Stacey by telephone at 306.782.1613 or email Stacey to register!

It Works!

Despite the long winter, my compost bin project has proved to be successful. It has provided several wheelbarrow loads of well rotted compost for this spring's flower bed top dressing.

The neighbours generous contributions of leaves, last falls' garden waste and winters' household fruit and vegetable trimmings, has produced a good quantity of rich dark rotted organic material. Perfect for spring and summer soil amending.

Blog post and photo by member Ken MacDonald. See more member photographs in our gallery.

Getting by with a little help from a friend.

Here is a project I just finished for a friend. She was sad because health issues made it impossible for her to bend down to garden. I asked if I could design a raised bed garden for her. She was quite delighted. The two of us strongly believe in recycling, so I began with a lavender bath tub my son was only too glad to get rid of. I built a frame with 2x6's to support the weight and clad the outside with cedar siding from my grandmother's abandoned home. It matched her house quite well. We filled it with a combination of top soil, 20 year old manure, peat moss and perlite. She went out and as she put it "got carried away" with filling it with tomatoes, eggplants and oregano (she is Italian after all). It is waist height so she doesn't have to bend at all.

Blog post and photo by member Alan Mlazgar. See more member photographs in our gallery.

Edenwold Up Close: An Update

An update to our post Edenwold Up Close:

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is providing transportation and lunch to conservation volunteers to come help out in a bioblitz at the NCC Edenwold property on Saturday, July 13!

Wear a hat, some good hiking boots and meet the bus at 7:50am at Victoria Park. We hope to leave at 8am sharp!

Please RSVP at conservationvolunteers.ca or email Sara.Burns@natureconservancy.ca or phone (306) 347-0447.

See you there!

Taming the Wild

There are many considerations to moving wild plants into your garden. First and foremost are the rules around moving plants in the wild. You should never dig plants from public spaces or from private property without permission. Then you have to consider invasive plants that are not native to our area which, despite their beauty, often threaten our local ecosystems. Finally, wild plants can be very temperamental to move. But when you find the right opportunity and the right plant, the results can be awesome.

Prairie Coneflower blooms in late June-July and can be found growing in the wild all over the Qu'Appelle Valley. It does not multiply quickly though and it would not take many of us digging to make it disappear. So we do not dig it.

I was fortunate two years ago, when a neighbour was building a barn, to have the opportunity to rescue three plants. They are very pretty when blooming but can be leggy when they are not. They were extremely difficult to move and I had to baby them for an entire season while they looked sick and a little hopeless. Although I was rewarded with masses of blooms in year two, by year three, I find I only have one plant left. Surprising considering how many seeds those masses of flowers dropped. No self-seedlings have appeared.

Lady Slipper, an early June bloomer, is another I have been able to try. Another friend building on their property, this time further North, had moved one to their city lot instead of squashing it with the new shed. When it started to multiply last year, I begged and was handed a shovel. Having learned from the Prairie Coneflower experience, I dug the largest root ball I have ever dug. I could not even fit the root ball in a bucket and had to use a plastic bag to transport it instead. When I got into my garden with it, I dug a huge hole, filled it with compost by about half and then plopped the root ball into it. I watered like crazy and crossed my fingers. No luck was necessary. The Lady Slipper took hold immediately and never skipped a beat, in spite of the fact that it was in full bloom when I dug it. I didn't want to wait in case the offer came off the table. Happily, she has returned to my garden this year!

This article was originally published in the RHS monthly newsletter, Let's Get Growing! June issue. If you would like to receive our newsletter in your inbox, click here to sign up!

Our Members Rock!

We would like to extend a hearty thank you to all of our member volunteers who make our events such a success!

First, from our President, Charlien Britton: "I would like to thank Ken McDonald and Jill Vaisey for organizing the annual plant sale at the Golden Mile Shopping Centre. Many thanks to the volunteers that gave their time and plant material we had a very successful sale without such dedicated members our sale would not be run so smoothly. A special thanks to our corporate sponsors’, The Plant Ranch, Cherry Lane Greenhouse and Doorn’s Greenhouse, for all the plant material donated for the sale. The winner of the planter basket, donated by Doorn's was Carol Reyda of Regina. Many thanks to the Golden Mile Shopping Centre for providing us with the venue to hold our event."

RHS would also like to thank all the volunteers who came out to lend a hand at our Annual Members Only BBQ. Despite the weather, we all had a wonderful time and it would not have been possible without all of you and your hard work!

Annual Members BBQ

On June 20, members of RHS gathered at the Senior Citizens Centre for our Annual Members BBQ. We would like to thank all the members who braved the storm that left all the flooded intersections, in order to attend! The rain had stopped by the time our BBQ kicked off and, although we ate indoors, a good time was had by all.

Thank you also, to all of the RHS members who volunteered at this event and helped make it so much fun for all of us. The food was wonderful and our President, Charlien, did an amazing presentation of planting garden vegetables in containers. An excellent idea for all the urban gardeners who are often pressed for ground to dig. Winners of the garden pot and salsa pot created by Charlien were Yvonne Casson and Olivia Shumski.

Identity Crisis

This iris photo just in from the yard of member Hazel MacMurchy. Isn't it beautiful? Anyone know what it is? There is a possibility it is 'War Chief' but we are not sure.

Edenwold Up Close!

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Edenwold, East Parklands Natural Area

Closest Town: Edenwold, Saskatchewan
Meeting Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Meeting Location: Details to be provided prior to event.

Transportation provided to the site.
Special Feature: Native grasslands, wetlands and woodlands

Join NCC Saskatchewan staff as a Conservation Volunteer at the Edenwold Property in the beautiful East Parklands Natural Area. Help us identify plant and animal species while we document many of the property’s unique features. NCC’s Edenwold 1 and 2 properties comprise 640 acres (259 ha). Lend conservation a hand while experiencing native grasslands,woodlands, wetlands and viewing many wildlife species.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada would like to thank the Imperial Oil Foundation for generously supporting this Conservation Volunteers event.

You may be hiking considerable distance so be sure to wear good hiking books and a hat. Also grab your binoculars and any bird or native plant books you wish, as you enjoy the East Parklands. Eat a hearty breakfast, pack a lunch and drinking water. NCC will add to this with complementary snacks and beverages.

If you have reference books, binoculars or other field equipment for data collection, you are encouraged to bring it. GPS units would also be helpful and appreciated. Tools and gloves will be provided.

 Free to attend but please RSVP online by clicking here!

Annual BBQ - Members Only

Calling all members! Our annual BBQ is coming up next week on Thursday, June 20. We are holding it at the Senior Citizens Centre from 6-9pm. We are planning a really great time and hope you all can make it. It will be an evening of food, fun and frivolity. Food provided by RHS, fun and frivolity to be provided by our members :)

All you need to bring is yourself and your partner! We hope to see you there.

 

Facebook Spotlight

We take questions on Facebook! We thought we would share one here.

Our Facebook friend, Tim, came upon these beauties near his workplace and posted this picture. We were able to help him identify the plant and provide him with a link to more information.

Check out this and other questions on our Facebook page. Give us a like and post your question!

Walk and Talk Tours at Government House

RHS is proud to be guiding the Walk and Talk tours this year at Government House. Join us and enjoy the beautiful Edwardian Gardens. We hope to see you there!

Open House! Wascana Centre Authority Greenhouse

You can't beat free admission! Once again this year, Wascana Centre Authority is opening the Greenhouse to the public for tours - today and tomorrow only! Don't miss out on this event.

White City Garden Club Plant Sale

Thursday, May 30 to Saturday, June 1

Click here for details

 

 

Annual Plant Sale Success

Our annual plant sale was held at the Golden Mile Shopping Centre on Saturday, May 25. We all had a busy time but it is always fun to talk plants with other gardeners!

We would like to thank our volunteers for all the hard work and everyone who came out and purchased plants at this RHS fundraiser. Your support is always appreciated!

Take a look at a few snapshots from this event in our photo gallery and don't forget our next event coming up this week.

We hope to see you there.

U of S Hort Week: July 6 - 12, 2013

Hort Week is an in class gardening and horticulture workshop series held every Summer on the University of Saskatchewan campus, in Saskatoon. Classes are open to everyone: general public and master gardeners.

• Hort Week provides informative workshops, classes, tours and lectures.
• Workshops are suitable for beginning to master gardeners.
• Hort Week workshops are available for everyone and can be used to supplement your University of Saskatchewan Master Gardener Certificate.
• Weekend, evening & daytime classes start at 9:00 am, 1:00pm and 7:00 pm.
• Topics vary from year to year but are often centred around gardening, insects, landscaping and more.

Stay up-to-date with Hort Week by clicking here.

SHA Bus Tour: July 20-21, 2013

Our member, Denise Mlazgar, has been working very hard with the Saskatchewan Horticultural Association and has organized a wonderful bus tour for the weekend of July 20. The tour is focused on the beautiful Qu'Appelle Valley and there are day and overnight options. This is an SHA fundraising event.

There are visits scheduled to Fort Qu’Appelle Fish Culture Station, Rocky Acres Orchard, Over the Hill Orchard and lunch at the Historic Bell Barn. Meet members of the White City Garden Club, the Indian Head Horticulture Society and RHS. A BBQ and bonfire are planned and there will be tours of market gardens and private gardens - including our own, Denise and Alan Mlazgar's amazing garden!

If this sounds like fun to you, please contact denisemlazgar@hotmail.com for more information.