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Cloverleaf meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm, with the exception of July, August and December.

Each meeting features a key speaker, followed by a flower show, and concludes with tea, coffee and baked goodies. There is also a draw table where you can win a plant or a gardening accessory.

The Annual General Meeting is held in January when the election of new officers takes place.

Meeting Location: Annual Membership Fees:

Mississauga Seniors' Centre $12 single, $20 family

1389 Cawthra Rd., Mississauga $10 senior single, $18 senior family

(between South Service Rd. & Atwater Ave.)

Members are admitted free to our monthly meetings. Guests and visitors are asked to pay $2.

The following is a list of future and past speakers at our monthly meetings,

shown in reverse chronological order.

November 19, 2008 Meeting: Pot Luck Social

October 15, 2008 Meeting:

Key speaker: Glenn Brunetti will be presenting “Herbal Harvest in the Kitchen”

Glenn lives in Hamilton, Ontario and has been an avid gardener all of his life. He started teaching at the Royal Botanical Gardens in 1995 and has since offered hundreds of herb, food and gardening programs across Ontario and the U.S. including Mohawk College, First Canada Place, McMaster University, Canada Blooms, the Ontario Garden Show, the Harbourfront Festival of Herbs. In the past, he has appeared on a variety of local, national and international media promoting the use of herbs.

September 17, 2008 Meeting:

CANCELLED due to construction delays at the Mississauga Seniors’ Centre.

July & August - Summer Break

June 18, 2008 Meeting:

Key speaker: Martin Galloway presenting "Wildlife Gardens".

Martin Galloway has a BSc biology from Guelph, M.Sc. Zoology from U of T, B.Ed. from U of T. Martin teaches Pathophysiology in health sciences at Seneca and teaches part-time at York University in Natural Science. He owns Chalk Lake Greenhouses (for 35 years +) specializing in perennials and native plants.

Martin was a segment presenter/writer on the Canadian television series Harrowsmith Country Life and was also the host of The Secret World of Gardens.

May 21, 2008 Meeting:

Key speaker: Stephanie Morris presenting “These are a Few of My Favourite Things”.

Stephanie Morris has been in the horticultural industry for 20+ years specializing in retail garden centre sales, residential garden design & consultation. Stephanie has a Certificate in Landscape Architecture from Ryerson and has been a Certified Ontario Horticulturist Teacher at Sheridan College for 7 years. She has spoken at Canada Blooms, Perennial Plant Association, horticultural societies throughout southern Ontario, and major corporations.

April 16, 2008 Meeting:

Key speaker: J.Paul Lamarche presenting “Fun & Easy Gardening without Chemicals or Water”.

J.Paul Lamarche is an avid gardener, landscape designer, and Horticultural Consultant, who practices a kind of gardening that was practiced by humans up to approximately the turn of the century.

Through the use of Herbs and Perennials, as well as the attraction of predator insects he has been able to garden pest and disease free. He gardens without the use of any type of fertilizer, except his own compost. He has never needed to use either chemicals or organic products to control the pests in the garden. He also gardens without the use of water!

The key is understanding that for every action there is an equal or even greater reaction and that nothing lasts long without a good foundation!

J.Paul Lamarche is co-author of “A Notebook for Gentle Gardeners”, a Canadian bestseller. He has spoken across North America on this topic as well as lecturing at most major schools of Horticulture & Horticultural Associations.

Even if you prefer today’s modern methods of gardening, hopefully you will find the presentation entertaining and in some degree relevant.

March 19, 2008 Meeting:

Key speaker: Paul Zammit presenting “Planning and Planting for All Seasons of Interest”.

Paul graduated from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and joined the full-time staff at Plant World, a retail garden centre, the following year. Paul is currently the manager of the Perennial Department.

Paul has written articles and provided photographs to the Epic Gardener and has appeared several times on The Indoor Gardener, Calling all Gardeners and the Gardeners Journal. Paul has been a guest speaker at many garden clubs and garden shows such as the CNE, Successful Gardening and Canada Blooms. He has spoken at a number of Horticultural trade shows both in Canada and the United States. In addition, Paul has taught horticultural related classes for the Toronto Botanical Gardens, Landscape Ontario and the City of Mississauga.

The front yard of their home was awarded first place in the environmental garden category in the 2001 City of Toronto Garden Contest and in 2003 it was awarded the Best Use of Plant Material in the City of Toronto West District Garden Contest. An article focusing on the containers in their garden was extensively featured in the August 2004 issue of Canadian Living. Another article featuring their garden appeared in a 2006 winter issue of Gardening How-To.

In July, 2002, Paul was awarded the Young Professionals award by the Perennial Plant Association. In October, 2003, Paul was elected Canadian Regional Director for this organization, which boasts over 2000 members internationally.

February 20, 2008 Meeting:

Key speaker: Sean James presenting " Xeriscaping – the Necessary Wave of the Future".

www.fernridgelandscaping.com

Sean has been gardening professionally since age sixteen, and has been speaking to horticultural societies since 1991. He is a graduate of the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture. He runs Fern Ridge Landscaping, a small, quality, full service consult, design, install and maintain company, and is President of the Milton & District Horticultural Society. Sean designed the Milton Millennium Garden. He also writes a monthly gardening column in the Halton Compass, the third largest weekly paper in Canada, teaches with Humber College and is a professional photographer (www.athyriumimages.com).

Sean grew up surrounded by nature, near Crawford Lake in Campbellville, so it was only natural that he would choose a career like landscaping.

January 16, 2008 Meeting:

Key speaker: Belinda Gallagher presenting “Mixed Border Design - Pitfalls and Hints”.

belinda@triffids.com

Belinda is an avid grower of rare, unusual, native and the more common perennial plants, as well as vines, grasses, shrubs, trees and fungus. Gardening in the sometimes Zone 5b, sometimes Zone 5a area in Halton Hills, Ontario northwest of Toronto, she experiments with plants of all hardiness ratings.

In 1998 she officially opened triffids plants and began to sell many of her unusual, rare and rarely grown plants, which are predominantly seed raised. The triffids plants 'sales' which are by invitation only, draw customers from Niagara Falls to Ottawa.

Her credentials include several years with Master Gardeners of Ontario (Halton Region group), certified horticulture and design judge, member of several gardening societies, Landscape Ontario instructor and Co-editor of the Ontario Rock Garden Society ‘Journal’. A member of Landscape Ontario and the Garden Writer’s of America, she combines local and North American garden knowledge. Belinda can be seen on THE WEATHER NETWORK in the gardening season and is serving on the Board of Directors of the Royal Botanical Garden in Burlington/Hamilton (Chair of the Science, Horticulture and Education Committee). With twenty years as a public speaking instructor, her gardening and flower design talks are both educational AND entertaining. She never forgets that humour is the only thing that sets us above the intelligence level of a Hosta!

November 21, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Dugald Cameron presenting "Choice Shrubs for flower & fragrance from Spring to Fall".

Dugald Cameron is the owner of Gardenimport Inc., a business which offers high quality, new plant varieties or rare plants to the gardening public.

“My gardening career began at an early age in my English Grandmother's garden where I'd occasionally help out with weeding & digging. I must have "caught the bug" then, because I've been interested in plants and gardens ever since. My Wife, Father and I started Gardenimport in 1983 because we couldn't find the quality or selection of bulbs and plants we wanted for our gardens. Since that time we've had the pleasure of introducing many plants, bulbs and seeds to gardeners all across Canada. Our constant search for new or scarce garden plants has led to close relationships with many of the worlds leading plant breeders and gardening authorities.

An earlier career in advertising together with a degree in biology and several years of photography at The Ontario College of Art were a perfect preparation for the mail order nursery business. Our catalogue was among the first to use full colour and we have had a website for 10 years.

I have been on the board of directors at the Toronto Botanical Garden since 1998 where I have not only had the pleasure of working on lectures and special events, but also speak and teach on many subjects. “

October 17, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Daren Schmahl presenting "Designing a Garden: A Designer's Approach”

Darren graduated from the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture and has attended John Brookes' School of Garden Design in England. He has been designing gardens for over 15 years, including Main Street, Jordan Village.

Darren is a partner at Outdoor Images Landscape Services and it’s sister company The Copper Leaf Garden Store. He is a graduate of the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture where he teaches landscape design. He also attended the John Brookes’ School of Garden Design in England, which has had a great influence on his work. He has been designing landscapes for residential gardens, commercial properties and municipal projects for the last twenty years.

September 19, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Frank Kershaw presenting "Successful Front & Side-Yard Landscaping".

Frank Kershaw received his Masters of Science from the University of Toronto and a diploma in horticulture from the University of Guelph. Prior to his recent retirement, he worked 30+ years in parks, horticulture and environment fields as a director with both the former Municipality of Metro Toronto and the City of Toronto. He has also worked abroad which has contributed to his knowledge of plants from different parts of the globe.

Frank was one of the founding members of the Canadian Wildflower Society and has served on numerous horticultural advisory committees. He has taught gardening courses at the Toronto Botanical Gardens, the Royal Botanical Gardens and lectured widely to garden groups, university and college audiences. He has been a horticultural consultant to a number of garden books and his published articles have appeared in Canadian Gardening, Family Circle, TLC for Plants, Wildflower and Trellis magazines. Over the years he has been a popular garden presenter at events in Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, North Bay, Quebec and Bermuda. He has also appeared numerous times on various TV shows.

In 1997, Frank was the recipient of the Garden Club of Toronto’s “Award of Merit” for outstanding contribution to horticulture. In February 2000, he made a presentation on behalf of Toronto to the Nations in Bloom contest in Japan wherein Toronto won first place for cities over one million population.

Frank has led numerous garden tours throughout North American, Bermuda, Caribbean and elsewhere where he has visited several thousand gardens.

June 20, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Martin Galloway presenting "Plant Adaptations".

Martin Galloway has a BSc biology from Guelph, M.Sc. Zoology from U of T, and B.Ed. from U of T. Martin teaches Pathophysiology in health sciences at Seneca and teaches part-time at York U in Natural Science. He owns Chalk Lake Greenhouses (for 35+ years) specializing in perennials and native plants.

Martin was a segment presenter/writer on the Canadian television series Harrowsmith Country Life and was also the host of The Secret World of Gardens.

May 16, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Diane Greenfield presenting "Antiques and Aliens".

Diane Greenfield is an avid gardener whose other hobbies include reconstructing log buildings (she and her husband have rebuilt 8 on their property), the collecting of plant folk lore, and speaking about her summer passion...Gardening. She is a frequent speaker at horticultural associations around the province and was a keynote speaker at the Ontario Horticultural Association’s Provincial Convention in Collingwood.

Her first gardens were historical designed to compliment their 1858 log home but temptations of exotics and new varieties have meant the gardens have evolved over the years. Her present gardens include many unusual plants from around the world with an emphasis on fragrance and texture.

Recently retired from teaching, and a Simcoe County master gardener, she has started to pursue her garden interests in offering summer workshops at a log studio located on her rural property. The sessions are called A Morning in the Garden.

This topic has a lot of fascinating plant history as well as discussion of antique perennials that are of interest to gardeners today.

April 18, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Peter Keeping presenting "Clematis".

Coming from a farming background in England, Peter started to become interested in growing vines in the early 80’s. Since then, he has collected more than 250-300 different types of Clematis. His real passion is the herbaceous Clematis, which he grows mostly from seed and cuttings. To date, he has about 35 herbaceous Clematis planted in the garden, in addition to the 300 climbing types of Clematis. He is a council member of the International Clematis Society, answering most of the questions across Canada on the NET. He is also a member of the British Clematis Society. He is a member of several horticultural societies and gives talks on all types of climbing vines. He imports rare Clematis from around the world, which he shares with other collectors.

March 21, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Belinda Gallagher presenting "Plants I'm learning to love and plants I'm learning to hate". (For Belinda's bio, refer above to January 16, 2007 Meeting).

February 21, 2007 Meeting:

Key speaker: Sean James presenting “Proud of Your Pruning”.

Sean has been gardening professionally since age sixteen, (22 years now!) and has been speaking to horticultural societies since 1991. He is a graduate of the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture. He runs Fern Ridge Landscaping, a small, quality, full service consult, design, install and maintain company, (www.fernridgelandscaping.com) and is President of the Milton & District Horticultural Society. He designed the Milton Millennium Garden. Sean also writes a monthly gardening column the Halton Compass, the third largest weekly paper in Canada, teaches with Humber College and is a professional photographer (www.athyriumimages.com). Sean grew up surrounded by nature, near Crawford Lake in Campbellville, so it was only natural the he would choose a career like landscaping.

January 17, 2007 Meeting:

This is the club's Annual General Meeting, when the election of new officers takes place.

Key speaker: Dave Elliott presenting "Statuary and Ornaments in the Garden".

Dave Elliott has been a long time member of Cloverleaf and also of two other Societies where he served as a President, Show Chairman and Newsletter/Yearbook Editor. Dave has visited many gardens throughout the world taking pictures of wonderful gardens and showing his slides, not only to Hort' Societies and Clubs, but also to many seniors groups.

Dave is well know for his innovative and creative flower arrangements and has exhibited at many shows including Canada Blooms, Royal Botanical Gardens, Civic Garden Centre, CNE as well as many specialty shows.

November 15, 2006 Meeting:

Key speaker: Mark Denee presenting "Perennial Combinations".

October 18, 2006 Meeting:

Key speaker: Douglas Markoff presenting "What's New at the Mississauga Garden Council and the Mississauga Garden Park at Riverwood".

Douglas Markoff is the Executive Director of Mississauga Garden Council.

September 20, 2006 Meeting:

Key speaker: Paul Zammit presenting "Gardening without Flowers".

Last Updated: 2008-10-08