Workshops

Annual Spring Garden Festival / Show planting workshop

Come and participate in the workshops at the Annual Spring Garden Festival in Nanaimo. CVIBGS holds workshops throughout the year and all weekend long at the Festival for people to participate, create and learn.

Past and future workshops and presentations at the show include:

  • Succulent and Summer Hanging Baskets
  • Creating Hypertupha containers
  • Fruit tree and rose pruning with pruning specialists
  • Urban vegetable gardening
  • Bee keeping
  • Seed saving and collection
  • Deer resistant plant selection and solutions
  • Landscaping and Sustainable garden practices
  • Garden & Landscape Design

Annual Spring Garden Festival / Show hanging basket workshop

UPCOMING MEETINGS:


CVIBGS Board Meeting - 3rd Thursday of the month, 5:00 PM at GR Paine Centre Garden Show Committee Meeting - 3rd Thursday of the month, 6:00 PM at GR Paine Centre The Committee meeting will start after the Board business concludes.


GR Paine Centre is located at 2324 East Wellington Road in Nanaimo.


We are still looking to fill more positions on our Board and committees. If you have an interest in gardens large and small and can contribute, please join us at the meeting! Mark your calendars and be there! If you have any questions, please call Keltie Chamberlain at 250-729-0436 All Members and/or Guests are welcome to sit in at our Meetings.


Our 16th annual Spring Festival Celebration of Island Gardening Show - March 11–13, 2011 Plan now to attend!


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