Meetings are usually held the 3rd Monday of the month, 7:30 pm at the Lambeth United Church located on the corner of Colonel Talbot Road and Main Street in Lambeth. http://www.lambethunitedchurch.ca
(Some dates may change due to holiday weekends – see list below)
April 15, 2024 – 7:30 pm
May 13, 2024 – 7:30 pm
June 17, 2024 – 7:30 pm
July – too busy in the garden for meeting
Speakers and Designs
April 15, 2024 Scott MacDougall-Shackleton
Scott has been a professor at Western University since 2002. He serves as the Director of the Advanced Faculty for Avian Research, a globally unique bird research facility at Western. He has published almost 150 research articles and book chapters on topics including bird song, bird reproduction, bird migration, and seasonal changes in birds. At our meeting he will be discussing the topic of Birds and the Weather.
The Design Theme for this meeting – ‘A Spring Water Viewing” design
May 13, 2024 Terri Dent
Terri is from the Chatham area and has a vast knowledge of gardening that she has shared with many horticultural societies and Master Gardener groups.
Her topic for this evening is Eco Gardening and Focusing on the Goodness of Gardening – The Do’s and Don’ts. She finds this topic one of her favourites and is looking to the new friendships she will make at our meeting!
The Design Theme for this meeting – ‘Thunder and Lightning – A Vertical Design’
Premiums will be given to current (2024) members of the Lambeth Horticultural Society at this meeting. Please make sure you bring your membership cards.
June 17, 2024 Mini Flower Show
Fresh Flowers, Your Favourite Vase = A Beautiful Centrepiece For you!
We will be asking you to bring in some fresh flowers, from your garden or store-bought, and your Favourite Vase. At this meeting we will have “Flower Arrangers” to help arrange and create a stunning bouquet of flowers for your own home!!
Further details will be sent to you in the Hortigram or by email !!!
Our Previous Speakers this year:
March 18, 2024
Speaker: Glen Smyth
Topic: Crabapples ‘The Forgotten Fruit’
Some of you may remember Glenn Smith of Appleflats. He was our very first virtual speaker in November 2020 during the pandemic and he was an awesome speaker ! When we meet Glen in person March 2024, he will share with us – more of Appleflats and taste his yummy crabapple jellies and sip the cocktail mixers. This ‘Forgotten Fruit’ will be remembered and enjoyed ! Glen will also have some of his products available for sale at the meeting.
Design: “Awakening of Spring” – an interpretive design.
February 19, 2024
Speaker: Catherine Kavassalis
Topic: “Fabulous Ferns”
Catherine is a passionate gardener and conservationist. A former chemist and teacher, she did her master’s in environmental education from the University of Toronto. Now she volunteers as an educator and inspirational speaker. She is an active member of the Halton Region group of Master Gardeners of Ontario. She was a former President of Oakville Horticultural Society and member of the Board of Directors for the Royal Botanical Gardens. Catherine loves to garden and believes that caring for plants is critical for our well being and that of our planet. Catherine enjoys learning and sharing knowledge and by doing so endeavors to stimulate interest and awe in the living world.
January 15, 2024
Speaker: Paul Gellatly – “The Tattooed Gardener”
Topic: “Daylilies – Beauty for a Day”.
Learn to appreciate the garden day by day, daylily by daylily. An experience daylily hybridizer with 49 registrations to his name; Paul will share with you some of his hybridizing program and show you daylilies you didn’t know you needed! From Colour Changers to Giant Blooms, Toothy Wonders to Striped Beauties. With over 90,000 registered daylilies, discover the passion, the beauty and ignite the love for a flower that only lasts one day!