Meeting Activities: Speaker, Flower Show, Master Gardeners (available for questions). Click here for Flower Show Details.

Guest Speaker: Dugold Cameron

Topic: The Fragrant Garden

Fragrance is one of our strongest memories. Childhood memories of a garden’s fragrance remain ageless, reawakening recollections years later. Perhaps this explains that irresistible reflex to sniff flowers. I’m a big fan of fragrant gardens and will discuss the seasons of fragrance you can add to your garden. We’ll examine various fragrant flower bulbs, perennials, annuals, shrubs and vines including where to plant them and what they need to thrive.

Our Speaker’s Bio: “My gardening career began at an early age in my English Grandmother's garden where I'd occasionally help out with weeding & digging. I must have "caught the bug" then, because I've been interested in plants and gardens ever since.
My wife Lynn Pashleigh, Father and I started Gardenimport, a mail order nursery in 1983 because we couldn't find the quality or selection of plants we wanted for our gardens. Offering a top quality selection of the latest seeds, flower bulbs and plants to Canadian gardeners from a catalogue and website. After 32 years of business Gardenimport was closed in 2014”.

Dugald was on the board of directors at The Toronto Botanical Garden for 13 years and continues to volunteer there, teaching and writing for the Trellis magazine. He speaks on many subjects to Horticultural Societies in Southern Ontario and has sat in for Ed Lawrence on CBC’s Ontario Today. He was the founding president of the Greater Toronto Bulb Society and is a member of numerous horticultural societies. His diverse gardening interests include spring & summer flowering bulbs, shrubs, perennials and clematis.