Ivy rings can revive old. hots, containers DO you have a favorite container or pot that — you would like to spruce up for an . upcoming dinner party? Putting together an ivy . ting is onc idea for an sim pressive arrangement. If you're lucky enough to have fresh ivy in your garden you 1c mble a beautiful fresh arrangement that will last up oO. two days. Otherwise there are some very. life-like artificial ivy vailable on sce wil took today. artificial i ivy. chicken wire of heavy wire may be. too sh: Mee ones too rc. ug inclined to mally faster than ‘the ‘deep.ones but also. easily dis-" ike. being caved, thawed and ize Planting biilbs in niew'soil You can use ter. and plant dually or. use the THE. “RINDSELING Weal ca BURNABY 294-6666 : OLD. pots: or other, decorative containers can be. ed: to make" attractive household focal the pieces. around the Wire arch securing the loose ends “with floral-wire. Continue to wrap the of ivy covering up any posed ' wire. Build up.thes. pit fiethod ‘where larger fs “numbers can be spaced out, and planted. In root-infestéd soil the task can be more -challenging. ‘Add some bulb fertilizer for the short. term and 2 generous quantity of slow- acting bone meal for the "long term.” - Surface feeding can be ‘done yearly. with the addi-. - tion of compo: The newly planted bulbs.” “will not break dormancy" unless the soil is this may require 4 . : soaking. Depending « on the. ms the ring is ‘complete, add pieces of ivy'to the bottom of the. pot to finish it off. These ivy rings look stun- ning when Jrapped i in mini- white lights; They.can sit “outdoors on your patio or on ing table: when you. entertain. “sprinkler, it. may take mi hours to get.the watcr-down’ to the depth of the bulbs. - Over.the years, the bulbs will multiply or sced them- selves, creating large clumps. At some point the bulbs will have to be dug and reset if . they fail to flower, . These are some of the bulb or bulb-like plants that naturalize well: Anemone . blanda, allium: chionodoxa, crocus, winter aconite, fritil- laria, snowdrops, muscari, dwarf narcissus,; puschkinia, scilla:arid dwarf tulips such as kaufmanniana, fosterania Please Come visit one of our four hardwefod flooring showrooms or call to arrange for a free home consultation. EVERY WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY: Tours of the main garden at the CBC Botanical Garden will be given by che Friends of the Garden at 1) a.m. The tour is included with the price of admission. To arrange group tours for the Main Garden and the Nitobe Garden, call 822-9666. The UBC Botanical Garden is located at 6804 Southwest Marine Dr., Vancouver, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: Celebrate Arbor Month with TreeFest ‘98, a day of free activities « at_—stthe Riverview Arboretum, the site of B.C.’s first botanic gar- den. Walks and tours are pre- sented by the — Burke Mountain naturalists and the Colony Farm community gar- deners. Enjoy tree tours and children’s activities. From 1] am. to 4 p.m. at 500 Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam. For more information call 933-6114 or 432-6351. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEM- BER 30: Discover how and when to prune the trees and shrubs in your garden from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m, The fee is "$13.38. The event is one of the fall gardening workshops offered by the West Vancouver Community Centre. For information about this and other pro- grams, call 925-7270. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 33° WV parks superintendent Bill Reid will guide partici- pants through the steps to Sunday, September 27, 1998 — North Shore News — 34 create a hanging basket full of multi-coloured pansies from 9 to 11 am. The fee for the workshop is $42.80 and includes supplics. The event is one of the fall gardening workshops offered by the West Vancouver Community Centre. For information about this and other pro- grams, call 925-7270. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4: The Vancouver African Violet Club is holding its annual Open House and Plant Sale from | p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Floral Hail at the Van Dusen Gardens, Oak Street and 37th Avenue, Vancouver. Admission is free. OCTOBER 17-18: The 8th Annual Apple Festiva! will be held over two days at the UBC Botanical Garden. Billed - as a true harvest festival, the - event has grown in stature and popularity over the ycars until it now attracts friends arid families from Vancouver, the Suushine Coast and .. Keiko. ~ from: headquarters: in . Kyoto, Vancouver Island. Call Tish Davis at 922-1984 for more information. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18: Visit the land of fungi when the Vancouver Mycological Society holds its Annual Mushroom Show at the - VanDusen Botanical Gardens. The centrepiece of the show will be a collection of fungi from southwescern B.C. in the fall. Experi. will be present to identify mushrooms the pub- lic finds bur aren’t sure of what they are. Located at 37th Ave. and Oak Street, the event will be held in the Floral Hall at 21 am. to 4 p.m. at a cost of $2 per adult. For more information call Paul at 322-0074. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25: The Ikenobo Ikebana Society of Vancouver is holding’ a flower. exhibit and. public demonstration by Professor Miyamoto, visiting, Japan. The: demonstration ® begins at 1:30 p.m. ‘at the Van Dusen Botanical Garden, Oak : Street and.” Vancouver. Admissi n is S10. GREEN GUIDE i isa weekly Sunday column. If your busi-" ness or charity is planning a gardening "venk, send in vour informatio possible to. the “North, Shore .- News, 1139. Lonsdale *. North ~' Vancouver, V7M 2H4,. Priority 's ver-Brite V Ever-Brite Aluminum Products Ltd. is pleased to announce thar it is under new ownership as of July Ist, 1998. The | management team, are all . former employees of Ever-brite. Garry Given, -. Ken Pickering and Mike Eck. 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