PoCo Garden Club
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The PoCo Garden Club is a non-profit gardening club in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The club encourages the beautification of Port Coquitlam as a city of gardens and enhances the enjoyment of gardening for its members and the community through educational speakers at monthly meetings garden field trips special events.
PoCo Garden Club
2w ago
What an important topic, especially considering the changes in climate and precipitation that seem to be the “new norm” lately! Deborah Jones was inspired (or rather dismayed!) when she saw this article in the Vancouver Sun, many years ago. After ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
6M ago
It was wonderful to have Diane Watson from the Invasive Species Council of BC (ISCBC) speaking to us, especially since our Port Coquitlam area has recently been designated as a regulated area due to the very problematic Japanese beetle that ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
8M ago
You may have seen posters at local garden shops about an invasive “bad bug”, the Japanese Beetle. It was found in Vancouver, False Creek area, in 2017 and has now reached our neighbours in Port Coquitlam and Burnaby. This year ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
9M ago
Renee Prasad is a dedicated advocate of the benefits of gardening and is an Associate Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley. (Our PoCo Garden Club proudly makes a significant donation to the Horticulture Program every year!) Renee’s students ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
11M ago
Josh Thompson, founder of PlanBee Native Plants, has an important mission to use his knowledge and his passion to help the declining bee and pollinator populations. Many common gardening practices are actively hurting the environment and Josh is working to ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
1y ago
Creative Containers in the Seasons & Small-Scale Gardening by Candice Ferguson Candice Ferguson’s enthusiasm for Container Gardening is infectious! She loves doing the seasonal displays at Amsterdam Garden Center and warned us that this type of gardening involves more than ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
1y ago
If you ever thought that ground covers were simply a utilitarian strategy for covering dirt and outpacing weeds, you would have been awestruck by our speaker, Gary Lewis! Gary’s passion has grown over decades of experience and 19 years of ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
1y ago
What a treat to have Lori Greyell, Organic Master Gardener, back to do another presentation! (You can read about her presentation on “Companion Planting” in an earlier post.) We were eager to learn about the topic of “Permaculture” from Lori as ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
1y ago
Dwight Young is the proud creator of “Growers Delight Soil Activator”, now in its 5th year of production. His enthusiasm for his product was very evident and he was pleased to announce that it has been OMRI certified organic and ..read more
PoCo Garden Club
1y ago
Megan Davis, creator-owner of “Perennial Gatherings”, certainly had a timely presentation … we have all been starting to bring in our favourite blossoms before the fall rains squash everything flat! Megan’s journey began to “bloom” around 2016 with a foraged ..read more