Squamish Gardeners

10/17/2026

10/06/2026

Autumn at Local Roots 🍂

Grab some farm-fresh produce and stock up for Thanksgiving! 🍎🥕🥒

Join us for FREE 30-minute workshops to get your garden ready for fall.

October 10 Workshops:
10 AM  Build Your Own Autumn Planter
Plants and pots are available for purchase. 

2 PM  Intro to Fall Pruning with Stirling Hart

Our greenhouse has been transformed for the season, bringing a little piece of the Practical Magic world to life. 🔮✨

Open October 10-31, we invite you to wander through, explore the details, take photos, and shop our collection of autumn porch décor, pumpkins, fall plants and more.

There’s more autumn fun on the way, stay tuned for next week’s workshops! 🍂

10/06/2026

🍂🐝𝔹𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝔹𝕖𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔽𝕒𝕝𝕝 ℂ𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕟 𝕦𝕡:

Bumble bees need three types of habitat to survive: plants on which to forage for pollen and nectar, nesting sites, and places to overwinter.

𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 "𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 & 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝" 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝.

Did you know : 🐝bumble bee colonies are ANNUAL, with only the new queens living through the winter.

New queens remain with the nest until they have mated and the season is over. At that time, the new queens leave the nest in search of an overwintering site. Once she finds her site, she will dig down a few centimeters, usually in soft earth, form an oval cavity, and settle in until the following spring. The remainder of the colony, including the foundress, dies off at the end of the year.

These queens emerge from hibernation in the early spring and immediately search for a nest site. Nests are often located underground in abandoned rodent nests, or above the ground in tufts of grass, old birds’ nests, or cavities in dead trees or under rock piles.

ᴘᴏʟʟɪɴᴀᴛᴏʀ ᴄᴏɴꜱᴇʀᴠᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ʀᴇꜱᴏᴜʀᴄᴇꜱ: https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/nesting-resources

Bumblebees pollinate your food. 🍅🫐🍓

🖋️📷 🌱VMG Heather N.

09/29/2026

Our annual fall flower show at the latest meeting was such a treat! So many members proudly displayed from their gardens & we barely had space for them all. What a sight to behold! Enjoy!

09/26/2026

All ready to greet you & answer your questions at Local Roots Farm Market Get ready for your fall garden in come visit us - we’re here until 3pm! Vancouver Master Gardeners Gabriella Brass

09/26/2026

Our first meeting of the season featured guest speaker Ron Long who for over 5 decades has been researching & photographing BC flora. He showed us dozens of his amazing photos & described the traits & habitats of the native plants, mostly lady slipper orchids found throughout our province. Astonishing!

09/22/2026

Garden centres make a small fortune every spring. Meanwhile, I'm usually out in the cold deliberately snipping bare, dead-looking twigs off my shrubs. There's a quiet trick to multiplying your garden—figs, hydrangeas, roses, you name it—right now, when everything looks completely lifeless. You don't need a heated greenhouse or any fancy kit. You don't even need that expensive chemical rooting powder. In fact, to get them going, I just dip them in a couple of everyday things you probably have sitting in your kitchen cupboard right now. Snip them, dip them in this pantry mix, stick them in the dirt, and literally walk away for a year. Plants want to grow, mostly you just have to give them the excuse and then get out of their way. I’ve put together a list of about 40 plants that actually prefer to be treated this way, plus the exact kitchen ingredients that trick them into throwing out new roots. Grab your secateurs and save yourself a few quid next year. I've left the details in the comments.