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Kimberley Garden Club Meetings
Second Wednesday of the month, 7:00 pm
Selkirk High School Library
405 Halpin Street
Kimberley, BC
If you’re interested in joining us, fees are only $12 per year,
payable in January. Members paid by the March deadline are
entitled to a 10% discount at Top Crop stores in Cranbrook and
Kimberley.
For more information, please contact our Membership Chair:
Nola McLaren
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Kimberley Garden Club is a fun
group of people who love everything about the art of gardening.
We get together to:
- Listen to guest speakers
- Learn about new plants, techniques & garden related ideas
- Visit local greenhouses
- Tour members' gardens
- Socialize |
Our club is a small one;
our membership currently stands at 40 members, including three Life
Time Members, who we honoured for
their long commitment to the club.
We meet year-round with an indoor
educational program in the winter and outdoor garden visits in the
summer. In the summer months, we try to visit three different
members' gardens, then have a quick meeting in the last one.
Summer is also a time for visiting local
garden centres. We also have an annual pot luck barbecue in August,
to which spouses are invited, as well as an pot luck Christmas
get-together, also with spouses. Every year, we have our annual
Mother's Day plant sale, stocked with goodies from our gardens. Some
of the money we earn goes toward paying an honorarium to our guest
speakers.
In our own way, we support the beautification
of Kimberley, and when we have funds available from Garden Tours or
Garden Conferences, we have tackled projects such as a garden and
gazebo for the residents of the Kimberley Special Care Home ("The
Pines"), helped the City plant the new planters in Kimberley's
Platzl, donated money to Cominco Gardens both for general plantings
and for their Slope Enhancement project facing the new senior's home,
Garden View Village. We have also given money to the Kimberley
Chamber of Commerce at their new location for landscape plants,
donated money towards the landscaping of the Kimberley Aquatic
Centre, and many more worthy projects. |
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