2011 Fall Plant Sale

Saturday, September 17, 2011
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
The Spring and Fall Plant Sales are fund-raisers for our non-profit society, Friends of Summerland Ornamental Gardens. The money helps maintain the ornamental gardens and the demonstration Xeriscape garden.
> Free admission.
> Everyone welcome! 
> Free advice.

Butterfly Garden Tour during Fall Plant Sale
Guided Butterfly Garden Tours with Tom Lowery and Dennis St. John
Meet at The Gazebo at 11 am and 1pm
Dennis St. John is an avid lepidopterist living in Willowbrook. His interest in insect conservation began with a survey of Okanagan butterflies in 1995 and continues to the present day. Dennis has produced a checklist of butterflies of the south Okanagan and spent many hours volunteering with local naturalist groups and the Southern Interior Invertebrates Recovery Team.

Tom Lowery is an entomology scientist at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre. He studies insects and mite pests of grape and insect-borne plant viruses with a focus on aphids. In his spare time, Tom had designed and installed The Butterfly Garden at Summerland Ornamental Gardens. The Butterfly Garden acts as an outdoor classroom and children from the local schools have participated in its interpretive signage, adding butterfly drawings and paintings.