JUNE 1985 i’
The CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE —Garden Topics & Events Newsletter
MESSAGE TO MEMBERS by Gordon D. Wick, Exec. Dir. Activities continue in high gear as we begin our summer season. Our show schedule includes the Toronto African Violet Society Show to wind up May, and then June begins with the Toronto Cactus and Succulent Society Show and the Toronto Bonsai Society Show on June 2nd. I would like to congratulate the members of the Cactus Club who have provided a changing group of blooming plants for a lobby display to help promote interest in this specialty. The new Ontario Rock Garden Society is attempting to fill a bus for a trip to Ottawa on June 16th. Call for further information. Just before I rush off to the Ontario Horticultural Association Convention in Windsor on June 19th to 21st, I will be preparing an entry for the invitational class in the Milne House Flower Show. The “Wizard of Oz” theme will be developed and based on last year’s theme show, this is a ‘“must see” exhibition. When I arrive back from Windsor it will be time to attend the Internatjonal Rose Show and Convention hosted by the Canadian Rose Society and held at the Westin Hotel. The Show will be open to the public on
June 27th with 3 days of lecture programs featuring the top rosarians from all over the world speaking on everything from Old World Roses to the newest hybrids and, of course, including mini roses. The following week will see the CGC involved in the educational exhibits for the other international convention hosted by our user groups this year. The American Gloxina and Gesneriad Society convention is being hosted by the Toronto Gesneriad Society at the Constellation Hotel on July 4th to 7th with the flower show open to the
public Fri. July 5 from 3:30 to 9 pm and on Sat. July 6 10:30 am - 4 pm On July 7th the York Rose and Garden and Canadian Rose Society, once again, will be presenting their
Garden Tour program.
For infor-
mation call Paul Graber 757-8809 or Audrey Meiklejohn at 633-9195. I wanted to boost our summer season with another horticultural event so we are issuing a challenge directed at (but
not limited to) all those hundreds of people who received packages of sweet pea seeds courtesy of Thompson and Morgan and Cruickshanks. We will be
holding a mini show of sweet peas on the mezzanine of the CGC lobby with
entries to come in Saturday July 20th between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Judging will then be done at 11 a.m.
Sunday June 23rd from 1 to 5 p.m.
and the exhibits will be open for public viewing until 5 p.m. Saturday
but the
and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday July 21st.
convention continues until