OCTOBER 15, 2026

Catherine Dale - tenured landscape horticulturist, certified SOUL organic landcare professional, educator and presenter, will share her experience and insights on some of Greater Vancouver's major landscape renovation projects: the good, the cringeworthy and everything in between.  Decisions made at ground level affect a landscape for years and decades to come, and her wisdom offers takeaways for home garden planners. She will take us on a cultural and historic journey through some of the gardens she has worked on doing her employment at the Land Conservancy in the Lower Mainland.

NOVEMBER 19, 2026

Liz Knight will lead us on a discovery journey of Darts Hill Garden Park. Darts Hill is a hidden treasure—a private garden turned public that contains unusual, rare, and endangered plants. Join Liz for a virtual tour where you will discover the garden's secrets. Along the way, you will learn why pawpaw orchards are festooned with roadkill, how lungwort got its name, and why the English prefer black tea over green.

Liz Knight retired after a 40-year career in market research, throwing herself headlong into learning everything she could about plants and gardening. She became a Master Gardener in 2019. After serving as a mentor for 6 years, she now helps design and deliver the Master Gardener course.  A tour guide at Darts Hill, she is also responsible for all plant labelling and maintaining the park’s extensive plant inventory. Liz is the Communications Director for the South Surrey Garden Club, where she was president from 2023 to 2025.

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