Information for Garden Clubs

In This Section:

• Tours
• Presentations
• Group Orders

 

(Last updated December 2008)

contact me at < lsmit@eastlink.ca >

Tours:

Garden Club visits are welcome by pre-arrangement, both during or outside of my normal business hours (but the nursery will not be closed to regular customers during my regular hours).

Due to physical constraints of the parking area, groups of more than 20 may have to park some of their vehicles on the highway shoulder or run a shuttle to alternate parking about 1 km away. In addition, there is only one of me now so I find groups of more than ten or so to be a real strain, and guided tours are pretty much out of the question for much larger than that.

Presentations:

After a few years of having taken myself out of circulation, so to speak (or actually so as not to speak), I'm once again prepared to give presentations to garden clubs. In particular, I now have more first-hand knowledge about and experience with the species Peonies. And a good crop of photos. These are mostly rather excellent plants, very much under-utilized and virtually unknown. So I would welcome the opportunity to speak about them. Basically, the round of talks I gave on this subject several years ago was more based on book research and conjecture than on personal observation; now is a good time for an update.

Group Orders:

I regret that due my downgrading from van to car I can no longer do local deliveries for group orders. Garden clubs interested in placing a group order for a single pick-up will recieve a discount.