JANUARY 1983
“For all your gardening needs ...all year round.”
NURSERY GARDEN CENTRES
CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE HORTICULTURE AND GARDENING MAGAZINE
Activities Program L 1983 January toJune
MESSAGE TO MEMBERS from T. W.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Thompson
It was a happy year, spent with Tovely people doing all manner of nice things, mostly horticultural.
"Why then," you say, "did vou leave as of November 1?". There are a number of reasons,
perhaps the most important being that I was drawn more and more to the wonderful world on the other
there is goldenrod, I will probably find the spindle gall. 1I'11 learn that it is the home of a moth caterpillar but I won't remember its name, Gnorimoschema gallaesolid-
aginis; it's just too difficult. I will remember that where ever I see monarch butterflies, I will expnect to find milkweed; that in the wet-
To accomplish this, there must be an inspired staff who find competent lecturers and instructors; who can answer the everyday auestions of the public with skill and confidence, and who can bring membership to a high level because it's worth every cent of the fee to be a member.
lands, the three-sided stems of The appropriate staff will not be grass-like arowth is not a grass at bought; they will struggle through all but rathe one ofa number of many of the diff1cu1t1es atithe s =Somm “eadgasfi.an at where I hear the L\;Tower end o salary range befrog in ear]y spring, it will not be cause they believe the place has a For the greater part of three long before marsh marigolds will beam greater purpose than most strucfrom the still pond water. score years and ten, I had longed tures. Their responsibilities will to have the freedom to watch spring not be circumscribed by job descripemerge, not only in the gardens, I simnly must spend time with all tions; rather they will be versatile but perhaps more importantly, in these wonders and, now and then, and do what needs to be done. There the meadows, along the hedgerows, take some people with me to introwill be no ivory towers; no empire duce them to my friends, some of in the woods and beside the creeks building by special groups. These and marshes. I wanted to respond which can't even move, and those empires are not a whole in themthat do, can't talk. to the call of the frogs, the song selves; together they are the whole. of the robins and the buzz of the bees. Every day that passes brings And so I have not done at the Centre But the Centre cannot operate withme closer to that great spectrum of what really needed to be done and I out volunteers. I cannot overstate life, represented by the flora and know it. The Centre has a alorious the value they are in a great numfauna of our native landscape. opportunity to be truly the best ber of ways. The Garden Club of They are my friends and I must know source of horticultural information Toronto and the Milne House Garden them better. around. Demonstrations, lectures, Club have provided a sterling sercourses and seminars ought to be the vice and many others have made The time is short, and their numbers never endina oroaram. From the their contribution too. You only are so great. I will never recogentry to the exit, it should breathe have to be here on a day-to-day nize them all by name. I will begin the breath of the plant world so basis to realize their interest and to know what to expect according to that the question, "What is this the ecology. I will know that where place?" could never be asked. continued page 2 side of the window in the large
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