Community and education since 1927
About our garden club
The Armstrong and District Garden Club is an active group of more than thirty members. We are a place for people in the area who like gardening to trade information, meet new friends, and learn from each other and from the speakers we bring in.
The club has been going since 1927, which makes this our99th year. Members range from people with a first tomato plant to Master Gardeners. Nobody checks your credentials at the door.
What a year looks like
We meet on the first tuesday of the month, February through June and September through December, at 6:30 pm.There is no meeting in January. Most meetings have a guest speaker. Recent talks have covered xeriscaping with the Okanagan Xeriscape Association, vegetable growing, and getting tools ready for winter.
Through the year there are parlour shows, where members bring in something from the garden and share it with the room. There is an annual photo contest across a range of gardening categories, with prizes. There are work parties, including planting the petunias along Pleasant Valley Boulevard. There are tours to garden centres and to members' own gardens.
Summer brings a social, December brings a potluck, and May brings the plant sale, which is the biggest thing the club does all year.
Where the club gives back
The club supports the community it gardens in. Each year it awards a bursary to a Pleasant Valley Secondary graduate heading into an agriculture or horticulture program. It makes donations to local causes out of the plant sale proceeds. Members plant and tend flowers at Pleasant Valley Manor and along the boulevard.
The club is a member of the BC Council of Garden Clubs, and members receive newsletters from several neighbouring clubs by email.
Other clubs in the valley
There are good clubs up and down the Okanagan and Shuswap. Members receive select neighbour newsletters by email.
Come to a meeting first
You do not have to join to visit. Come once, see whether the room suits you, and decide after.