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Please feel free to come and visit our meetings; if you enjoy yourself and think you might want to try and grow some Gesneriads we welcome you to join us as a new member. Feel free to bring along a friend whom you think might be interested.

Meetings are held on the 3rd Sunday of each month, September through June, at 2:00 p.m.  As of November 2007 we are meeting at Meadowville Garden Centre 265 Edinburgh Rd. N. Guelph, Ontario N1H 1E2 (please see the map below). The meeting room is accessible at the extreme back of the store. . A complete list of our upcoming meeting dates and topics can be found below.

Our meetings will run usually for 1.5 - 2 hrs. including guest speakers, special topics, slides shows, snacks and beverages, a mini show if members bring their plants in or a show and tell of new and interesting Gesneriad plants you are growing. It is a chance to have a lot of fun with new and old friends and learn a lot too.

(If you have any questions you can find contacts on our membership page)

2007/2008 Schedule (meetings start at 2pm)

Sept. 30th - hands-on workshop – potting up seedlings, splitting plants, repotting fall cleanup/ freshen up for the new growing season. Feel free to bring problem plants or seedlings from last years projects.

Oct. 21st - Gesneriads in the wild (GS Program) - Presented by Bevin Anderson

Nov. 18th - Annual General Meeting (Treasurers Report, Membership Report, Presidents Report, New by-laws to be discussed and voted on, annual elections to be held, Other business either arranged or points brought up from the membership)

Nov. 24th - Not a regular meeting - Field trip to Harster Greenhouses (follow link to learn more about them), A guided behind the scenes tour. (limited # of guests allowed email us indoorgardening@gesneriadgarage.com ASAP for availability)

Dec. 16th - Holiday Social meeting / Pot Luck (cancelled due to extreme weather)

 Jan. 20th - Alpine Gesneriads (GS Program)

Feb. 16th - Columnea - Hanging out with an old friend – making sense of the names and having fun with hanging baskets. Speaker Bevin Anderson

March. 16th -  Tentative Topic/speaker TBA

April. 20th - meeting will be held in Fergus with host Paul Lee. A regular meeting with the bonus of the hospitality of our host so we can visit his various beautiful commercial plants. Directions will be given in the newsletter previous and added to the website.

May. 10th - Our 1st Annual  OGS Plant Exhibition (no formally judged show) Location: Meadowville Garden Centre (one day only times TBA)

June. - Topic/speaker TBA

Aug. TBA - Our 2nd Annual Year End Pot Luck Social Picnic - This year will be hosted by our Second Vice President at his home in East Aurora, just a short trip south of the border in the outskirts of the Buffalo area. An excellent grower and host, this will be a fun time with lots of stories from July convention where we will be chartered.

Meadowville Garden Centre 265 Edinburgh Rd. N. Guelph, Ontario N1H 1E2

Click on image for link to map and individual directions from mapquest. Note: The old meeting location is marked by the red arrow and the red star is our new meeting location.

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