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SEMINARS
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In addition to offering quality plants, unsurpassed service, gardening products and gifts, Bylands Garden Centre conducts seminars covering a variety of topics from landscaping to seasonal decorating. Keep an eye on this webpage for seminar dates and times. Our current list of seminars:
All the below seminars are held at Bylands Garden Centre
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Tree and Shrub Prunning..
Date: March 14, 2010
Time: 1-2:00
Cost: Free
Take the mystique out of this important activity in the garde. Learn about the basic pruning techniques of shade tree, flowering shrubs, conifers roses, as well as fruit trees and small fruits.
Instructor: Don Burnett
Pathways in the garden
Date: March 21, 2010
Time: 1-3:00
Learn how to create beautiful pathways in your garden by using different materials. Workshop will be outdoors so please wear appropriate clothing.
Instructor: Nick Goreas
Pest and Disease Management in the Home Garden
Date: March 28, 2010
Time: 1-2:00
Learn how to manage your own garden to maximize it's potential. Learn about pests and weeds and their cycles to help you keep your garden in a state of harmony.
Instructor: Ken Salvail
Xeriscaping
Date: April 11, 2010
Time:1-2:00
Cost: Free
Drought tolerant plants have different ways to adapt to our dry climate. Okanagan xeriscape specialist, Gwen Steel will show examples of these and tell you how to learn more from the searchable plant database to be found on the Okanagan Xeriscape Association website (www.okanaganxerisscape.org) Learn how to use plant material that need less water in the garden.
Instructor: Gwen Steel
Hosting the District of West Kelowna Workshop: Tree and Shrub Pruning
Date: April 17, 2010
Cost: $20.00.
Registration : Please phone 778-797-8800
time: 1-3:00 must pre-register
Take the mystique out of this important gardening procedure by listening to Don Burnett’s instruction on basic pruning techniques. Shade trees, flowering shrubs, conifers and roses will be covered as well as fruit trees and small fruits. 2 Hours
Instructor: Don Burnett
Growing beautiful Roses
Date April 18, 2010
Time:1-2:00
Learn what roses to use locally and how to look after them with very low care.
Instructor: Don Burnett
Hosting the District of West Kelowna Workshop: Planters Hanging Baskets and Soil Health
Date: April 24, 2010
Cost: $20.00
Registration: Please phone 778-797-8800
Time: 1-3:00 must pre-register
Don Burnett will show you how to create a beautiful moss basket, a traditional annual planter with the latest introductions and then step outside the box and create a planter from plants in the nursery not normally seen in containers. 2 Hours
Instructor: Don Burnett
Outstanding Planters and Baskets
Date: April 25, 2010
Time: 1-2:00
Cost: Free
Have the best planters ever with the best techniques including soils, fertilizing and plant selection. Learn all of Ken's secrets to success in this 1 hour seminar!
Instructor: Ken Salvail
Pond Building demonstration
Date: May 2, 2010
Time:1-300
Cost: Free
Get great ideas of what materials can be used and how to use them to create you own pond.
Instructor: Nick Goreas