创会与图书馆渊源
Nanoose Garden Club 的前身是 1970 年代末期的一门园艺课程。1974 年 9 月 27 日,Nanoose Library Centre 在 Edmonds 夫妇夏季租住的木屋里正式开馆,启动资金来自联邦政府 New Horizons Grant 资助的 11,500 加元,加上 Gordon N. Greene 捐赠的 1,000 册图书。1978 年图书馆活动室落成后,馆内先后开办过手工艺、美术、健身、乡村舞会、月度晚餐俱乐部等课程,其中一门为期十周的园艺课反响强烈,学员顺势成立了每月一次的园艺交流小组,这就是俱乐部最初的雏形。
从 NAGIE 到 Nanoose Garden Club
俱乐部最初的名称是 Nanoose Amateur Gardeners Ideas Exchange,简称 NAGIE,长期在每月第一个周五下午 1:30 到 3:30 聚会。成员希望活动保持非正式氛围,只讨论各自花园中的成败得失,后来逐步加入客座讲座和会员花园互访。早期会员必须同时是图书馆会员,每年会费仅 1 加元;作为回报,NAGIE 把年度植物义卖一半利润交给图书馆,并承担图书馆花园的日常养护,虽然这笔捐赠往往还不够抵消租金。1981 年 2 月 12 日,俱乐部正式更名为 Nanoose Garden Club,沿用至今。
月度例会与年度安排
俱乐部目前每月第一个周五下午 1:00 签到、1:15 开会,地点是 Nanoose Library Hall;1 月到 6 月、9 月到 11 月共九次例会,7、8 月改在 Rathtrevor Beach 一带举办会员野餐与花园互访,12 月则是圣诞联谊。会员年费 20 加元(1 月续费),访客 5 加元现金,只接受现金或支票。例会流程包括签到、俱乐部事务、茶歇、客座讲座、抽奖、植物义卖桌和会员植物交换桌,客座讲座通常安排在下午 2:00 到 3:00。2025 年的客座话题包括家庭顺势疗法、生物动力园艺、菌根真菌、太平洋西北花园蕨类与本地传粉昆虫等。
会员福利与社区参与
会员卡可在多家本地苗圃享受优惠,也可借阅俱乐部自有的花园图书和杂志。每次例会的会员展台展示会员自种的特色植物,另设一个由会员捐赠的植物义卖桌,所得用于俱乐部日常开支。每年 5 月,俱乐部在 Nanoose Library Hall 外的草坪上举办一年一度的植物义卖 Plant Sale,这是俱乐部主要的筹款来源,会员们拿出自己繁殖的各类苗木和幼苗。年终会员可参加花园图书借阅、讲座回顾、聚餐、户外花园参观、Seed Swap 种子交换等活动,俱乐部还与周边 Qualicum Beach Garden Club、MARS(山地杜鹃协会)、AGCVI(中央温哥华岛高山园艺协会)等本地团体保持联络。
历史、规模与联系
2000 年俱乐部会员增至 77 人,2001 年起不再要求会员同时是图书馆会员,会费也调升到 10 加元。2006 年 2 月 10 日,NGC 在 Jackie Hall 担任主席期间庆祝 25 周年,Long-serving Board 成员 Loraine Wilhelm、Elaine Bohm、Hazel Muir、Linda Patterson 和她的妹妹 Myrna 一起为周年纪念准备了茶点。至今 Alice Judd 是图书馆董事会和 NAGIE 任期最长的主席之一,长达 26 年。如今俱乐部每年继续吸纳新会员,向周边的 Chemainus、Parksville、Qualicum 等社区开放,例会地点位于温哥华岛东岸 Nanoose Bay 的 Nanoose Library Hall。
Founding and Library Roots
The club traces its origin to a gardening short course held at the Nanoose Library Centre, which opened on September 27, 1974 in a rented log cabin that had served as the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Edmonds. The library was made possible by a New Horizons Grant of 11,500 Canadian dollars from the Federal Government and a donation of 1,000 books from Gordon N. Greene. The activity-room wing was added in 1978, and the library subsequently hosted crafts, art, fitness, country dancing, and a monthly dinner club; a ten-week gardening course proved especially popular and led the participants to form a monthly meeting group, the direct ancestor of today’s club.
From NAGIE to Nanoose Garden Club
The original name of the club was Nanoose Amateur Gardeners Ideas Exchange, shortened to NAGIE. It met on the first Friday of each month from 1:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon. Members kept the gatherings deliberately informal at first, focusing on shared experience of successes and failures in members’ own gardens; guest speakers and members’ garden visits were added soon after. Membership was originally open only to library members, with annual dues of just one Canadian dollar; in lieu of rent, NAGIE gave the library half of the proceeds of the annual plant sale and looked after the library garden, although that donation rarely equalled the rent that would otherwise have been charged. The club was formally renamed Nanoose Garden Club on February 12, 1981.
Monthly Meetings and Annual Calendar
Regular meetings are now held on the first Friday of each month from January through June and September through November, with registration at 1:00 pm and the meeting starting at 1:15 pm in Nanoose Library Hall. July and August are reserved for a members’ picnic at Rathtrevor Beach and informal garden visits; the December meeting becomes a Christmas social. Annual membership is 20 Canadian dollars, due each January; guests pay 5 Canadian dollars cash at the door. The 2025 speaker programme has covered topics such as homeopathy in the garden, biodynamic gardening, mycorrhizal fungi, ferns for Pacific Northwest gardens, and pollinator insects on Vancouver Island.
Membership Benefits and Community Involvement
Membership cards are honoured with discounts at a number of local nurseries, and members may borrow from the club’s library of gardening books and magazines. Each meeting features a Members’ Table displaying plants from members’ gardens and a donated Plant Sale table whose proceeds help fund club activities. The club’s main fundraiser is the annual Plant Sale, held each May on the grounds outside Nanoose Library Hall, where members offer seedlings and divisions they have propagated themselves. Members also take part in a yearly Christmas social, an annual Seedy Saturday and Sunday exchange, and outings to other local clubs including the Qualicum Beach Garden Club, MARS (Mount Arrowsmith Rhododendron Society), and AGCVI (Alpine Gardeners of Central Vancouver Island).
History, Scale, and How to Join
By 2000 the membership had grown to 77, and from 2001 membership in the library was no longer required; annual dues rose at the same time to 10 Canadian dollars. The 25th anniversary of the renamed club was celebrated on February 10, 2006 under President Jackie Hall, with a tea prepared by long-serving board members Loraine Wilhelm, Elaine Bohm, Hazel Muir, Linda Patterson, and Myrna Patterson. Alice Judd holds the record for the longest service on both the library board and as NAGIE president, totalling 26 years. Today the club welcomes new members from across the Nanoose Bay area, including the surrounding communities of Parksville, Qualicum Beach, and Chemainus on the east coast of Vancouver Island.
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