Upcoming Meeting dates:                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                Saturday meeting times 1-3 PM, Burridge CC;
Tuesday evenings at 7-9 when applicable                                                                                                       


July-August, Garden Tours

August 2 - Flower Show & Tea
Exhibition flower judging will
also take place that week

September 9 (Tuesday)
Lecture Room 181
Plant Swap
garden tour photos to be
submitted for newsletter -
email or on CD

October 11 (back to Saturday)
Topic TBA

November 8
Lecture Room 147
Topic: gardening photography
composition, with Sue Hutchins
& Sandra Phinney

December 13
Lecture Room 181
Christmas Program




                                                                                                                     

Gardening-related links may be added to our Free Links section,
which is open to all. Members, please check these links to see who's new!
We would especially like to have links to other garden clubs.
Dues are a bargain at only $10.
New members are welcome
at any time. Come to a
meeting and see what
we have to offer.

Welcome to the Yarmouth Garden Club's Website!

For information about upcoming events, meeting dates, and club activities, please visit often. Members are asked to submit items of interest including photos, how-to articles, gardening tips and trivia, personal gardening stories and anything else that will appeal to our members.

Text Box: In This Issue: President’s Message…………..1 Outstanding Gardener………..1 What’s in a Name? …………...2 We Have a Website………….2 Brown Street Cleanup………..3 Photo Contest Info…………...4 Garden Tours ………………..5-7 Convention Shots…………….8

Brenda Tate

Tim Horton's Tour '08 is now history! Please visit the tour page to share in this wonderful day with us.


The 2007 Club Photo Contest
(for reference when viewing winners)


Categories:


1. Open category – Picture of your choice taken anywhere of anything.
2. Container/window box from your own garden
3. Snow scene in your garden
4. Child/children in your garden
5. Critters real or fake in your garden
6. Favourite Flower in your garden
7. Wild flower(s) taken anywhere
8. Close-up of a rose in your garden
9. Close-up of any flower in your garden
10. Fall colours in Nova Scotia anywhere
11. Rocks in your garden
12. Any picture with water in it from your garden (extra  points for creativity
13. A picture from a public garden.


Rules for the annual contest:

     Photos are to be approximately 4” x 6”
Photos are to be mounted on construction paper with a 1” border
Member’s name and category to be written on the back of each entry
Only one photo per member per category allowed
Digital photos must be printed on quality paper




 



Brenda Tate