Learn how to deck your walls, fences, pillars and pergolas with climbing, spreading and trailing plants. The Bowen Island Gardening Club's March speaker, Christine Allen, will explain how best to enhance a garden with colour and variety - all growing up. She will provide the pros and cons of everything from winter jasmine and ivy to summer's rambling roses and scarlet runner beans.
Christine Allen is a member and past president of the Vancouver Rose Society. She teaches courses on rose care and cultivation at VanDusen gardens in Vancouver and is a regular contributor to several gardening magazines. She has also authored three gardening books: Growing Up: Climbing Plants for the Pacific Northwest (illustrated by her husband, Michael Kluckner), Roses for the Pacific Northwest and Gardens of Vancouver. She will bring along copies of her books for sale.
AINSLIE MANSON
B.I. GARDEN CLUB
