Image description: Painted image of a garden with multicoloured flowers against a blue sky.

The Seed-to-Sky Garden Club meets in our building and expertly maintains the community garden in our parking lot. The Garden Club welcomes Cityview’s plant enthusiasts to join them in their program of ongoing learning.

On May 7th, join the Garden Club in learning about BC’s native bees!  Weather permitting, the meeting will start by exploring the flowering plants around Cityview, and participants will learn how to see, identify, and appreciate native bees. Our bee exploration will be followed by a presentation that will help distinguish bees from other insects, describe bees’ many roles and relationships to the biosphere, and much more. Participants will also learn how to contribute to citizen science and other ways to support these friendly pollinators.

Schedule:

6:30 pm – If its not raining, meet at the Cityview parking lot on Sophia to go on a “bee safari”- a walk in the garden locating flowering plants and bees.

• In case of rain, please come in through the main door on 28th Avenue.  We will have a table set up with bee info.

• 7:00 pm – check in.   Get some tea, and goodies and chat with Seed to Sky members and guests.

• 7:15 pm – Presentation by Christine Thuring all about BC’s native bees.

Christine Thuring is a plant- and urban ecologist with a passion for  enhancing conditions for biodiversity. She has specialized in green roofs and urban ecology since 2001, and conducted research on this subject for a PhD (Landscape Ecology, University of Sheffield) and a MSc (Horticulture, Penn State University). Christine is a co-founder and current President of the Native Bee Society of BC, as well as the GRIN Green Roof Infrastructure Network of BC (grinbc.org). She also runs a small consultancy, Ecotone: Restoring Biodiversity.

Please remember to bring: 

·        A donation to the draw or refreshments tables

·        A mug for tea

·        A pillow to cushion your chair

·        $5 drop-in fee for non-members

·        CASH to pay for your Seed to Sky membership unless you/ve already paid it by etransfer.