KELOWNA GARDEN CLUB
Meetings
The Kelowna Garden Club holds regular meetings to share club news and upcoming activities as well as to give members an opportunity to take part in our Grow and Show and enjoy a guest speaker. View our speaker list below and check our newsletter for updates.
Meetings are held from March to June and September to December.
CLUB MEETINGS
DATES:
The First Tuesday of the month from March to June and from September to December
LOCATION:
The Evangel Church
3261 Gordon Drive, Kelowna
Just south of K.L.O. Road– enter through the southwest door
TIME:
Meetings begin at 6:30 pm. Doors open at 6:00 – Grow & Show entries must be in place by 6:20 pm.
SPEAKERS LIST
May 5:
Composting
Keli Westgate
Let’s talk about composting!
Keli Westgate is a lover of the land, water, and air, a connector of people and ideas, a support and muse for gardeners, and a wealth of knowledge and experience in arid-climate permaculture gardening. She holds Certificates in Permaculture Design, Rainwater Harvesting System (RWHS) Design, Living Green Infrastructure, Climate Adaptation Fundamentals, and Liberal Studies.
She designed and installed the hybrid food forest at the Salvation Army in Salmon Arm, is on the Board of the Society for the Protection of Kalamalka Lake, runs the free monthly Vernon Permaculture Group, and has a plot at the new agriculture park in the RDNO for which she was on the development advisory committee.
She is a happily married mother of a University student, worked formerly with Spa Hills Compost and Home Zero Collective, doing community engagement, and was a two-time BC Green candidate in Vernon with a specific focus on water, clean energy, and local food production. In the past, Keli has also served on the Boards of the Historic O’Keefe Ranch, the Sustainable Environment Network Society, and the Federal Green Party Electoral District Association, as well as being on the Solid Waste Advisory Committee with the RDNO.
March 3:
Xeriscaping & Native Plants
Sigrie Kendrick
Find out how native plants can be used in a water-wise garden.
Sigrie completed her Master Gardener course in 2014 during which time she met Gwen Steele, co-founder of the Okanagan Xeriscape Association. Her enthusiasm was infectious; Sigrie became passionate about promoting xeriscape and joined the OXA board as a director in 2015, becoming Executive Director in 2019.
April 7:
BC Native Bees
Elaine Sedgman
Find out all about our wild native bees
Elaine Sedgman is bee-sotted with our wild native bees. She has taken numerous taxonomy workshops to learn how to identify them.
She organized the Thompson Shuswap Master Gardeners (TSMG) Citizen Science bee surveys from 2017- 2019. Elaine also partnered with TRU botanist, Dr. Lyn Baldwin, to teach bee literacy to middle school students in Kamloops. She is a certified Apprentice Master Melittologist.
In addition to her impressive resume, Elaine wrote and illustrated A Bee Named BOB, a story about a cavity nesting mason bee and a second illustrated book on a ground nesting bee, Andrena, a Mining Bee. She helped develop the “Common Bees of the Southern Interior of BC” and “Gardening for Pollinators” brochures for the Thompson Shuswap Master Gardeners. In September 2024, Elaine organized a mini bee school & field day in Kamloops. Three species of bees not recorded in BC before were discovered!
Membership
To support us and access all of our club events, including meetings, speakers, garden tours and excursions and be part of our gardening community . . . come and join the Kelowna Garden Club!
MEMBER-ONLY MEETINGS
June 2 – Annual Picnic
November– Year in Review meeting
December – End of Year Member party
Club Meeting Photos
Submitted by Kelowna Garden Club members
