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Tarrant featured at Bradner flower show

FOR OVER 60 years the community of Bradner has delighted visitors to its annual flower show.

This year’s show features David Tarrant, the renowned TV person- ality of **Canadian Gardener,’’ who will officially open the show on Saturday, April 14 at 2 p.m.

The theme will be Easter Parade and there will be an Easter Bonnet Parade which will be judged shortly after the official opening.

As always, the focus will be on the many varieties of daffodils grown in the area —- some 400 different blooms will be on display. Also highlighted will be displays from other growers, including or- chids and geraniums.

Admission is $1 and the tea roam will be well stacked with sand- wiches, cakes and other goodies, all made by community volunteers. Supper will be served Friday and Saturday evenings from 5 to 7 p.m. All of the proceeds from the show go toward local community pro- jects.

Dates for the 1990 show are: Friday, April 13. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, April 15. 10 a.m. to6 p.m.

Early mornings and evenings are usually less busy.

For further information call Marion, 856-7310; Audrey, or Hazel, 669-1143.

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Native plants ure abundant and, chances are, you have several shrub, wildflower and tree species already thriving in your backyard. If not, how do you get them?

Day discourages people from digging up plants in parks and wild places — not only is it iMegal to do so in parks, but it defeats the pur- Pose of preserving indigenous plant stock. Do-it-yourself seed collecting and germination is possible, but best left to the diehard botanists. ‘‘There’s no guarantee of germination and it’s very complex to do it the right way,’* she says. The best approach

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is t0 loak to the seed guides tor wild seed, although Day points out that the Canadian magazines are lageing in this respect.

In addition to her passion for plants, Day is an advocate of garden clubs. which she believes could do their part in spreading knowledge about native plants by way of public shows. Once a direc- tor of the American Native Plant Society and founder of a Nor- thwest Coast chapter in Oregon, she asserts that a provincial native plant society could also play an important role in helping preserve threatened and endangered plants.

Day is more than willing to do

her own part to preserve wild plant stock. After years of searching, she and her husband have purchased her ‘tdream”’ garden. Situated on the east coast of Vancouver Island, it features five acres with three microclimates. where, she says proudly, ‘‘You can grow everything.””

Three years from now she hopes to have a wildflower nursery so that she can provide people with native plant seedlings. Perhaps by then, her moniker as native plant woman will really take root.

For information on RecCentre Delbrook’s landscape design course, call 984-4181.

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