President’s Report, November 2024
The next Cowichan Valley Garden Club Meeting will be held Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, at Duncan United Church Hall (246 Ingram Street). The meeting starts at 7:00 pm. The Annual General Meeting will follow then general meeting. Doors will open at 6:30 pm.
It sure has been wet lately, hasn’t it? But I am sure enjoying the warm temperatures and the dahlias still blooming in my garden.
Please join us for the November meeting which will be immediately followed by our Annual General Meeting when will be voting in some new board members. This is important and you don’t want to miss it!
Our speaker for the meeting is Charles André. His topic is ‘It All Began in a Garden: The Art of Garden Design’. Charles is a garden designer and landscaper who focuses on designing garden spaces to best fit their surroundings. He will tell us the unique story of how he became a garden designer. Then he will describe his approach to key elements of garden design, using photos of his work to illustrate each.
Charles’s degree is in acting and movement, and he has had a long and successful career as an actor, stuntman and stunt double. But gardening was a love since he was a small boy, and he put himself through university working as a landscaper. A turning point in his career was a chance to work with Gerhard Rehm, a prestigious German-trained landscaper based in Victoria. Gerhard’s creativity, artistic style and commitment to exceeding the expectations of his clients formed the basis of Charles’ current practice. Formerly based on Mayne Island, Charles’ landscape design company It All Began in a Garden is now based in Duncan.
The parlor show this month includes:
-Logging On – a line design using weathered wood
-First Frost – your interpretation
-Stargazing – a design of your choice featuring white flowers
Other categories include pelargonium, nerine, cyclamen, last bloom, berried branch and winter pears. Don’t forget we always have the Surprise Us and Anything Goes categories for anything we just have to see!
Please refer to the website for further details.
A reminder that anyone can donate plants to the monthly plant sale table. All donations are appreciated.
Happy Gardening!
Marlene Karmann
President
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