THERE WAS PLENTY OF GREAT STUFF AT HORT EAST FOR US DESIGNERS!!

Winter Meeting 2011 Feb 10 & 11
at the Collins Bldg, NSAC, Truro, NS

The recap:
Thursday:
10 - 12 Landscape Industry Certified Designer Exam *
Only if individuals prearrange with Ellen Ruddick at ellen@pricelandscaping.ca
1 - 5 p.m. or later as required - Presentation on the work of John Higgins followed by a design workshop to finalize the John Higgins Memorial Garden project. Social and dinner at the Glengarry after.
Friday:
10-12 Arbor Nursery presentation & Eco Audit Service (their process of preparing a site audit prior to the construction phase of a landscape project)
12 - 1:30 LUNCH (on site or off)
1:30 - 3:30 AGM (election of officers, planning for 2011 including Horteast booth and workshop (possibly Hand Drawing), Annual Road trip suggestions.

2010 AALD Fall Tour, Sept 25-26, Annapolis Royal, NS

I stopped to smell the roses... Hope you did at our recent winter meeting in Truro

Duncan Kelbaugh, on the fall 2010 AALD tour at Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens

The recap:

Saturday, Sept 25
9:30 -10am: Arrival and check in
There's no big difference in price that I've found between an upscale B&B and a local
motel. I recommend the Bread and Roses B&B in town, and they offer us a $10
reduction on their off-season rates, so $89 - $110 plus hst per night. A couple of the
rooms have 2 beds. All but one are available now.
www.breadandroses.ns.ca/.webloc
I've listed some other resources at the bottom of this schedule.

10 - 12 noon: Visit and tour Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens with garden manager Karen
Achenbach. I've invited Karen to join us for the day.
Reduced fee of $6 per person
http://www.historicgardens.com/
This garden is the highlight of this trip.

12 noon - 1pm: Catered lunch in GIC, Gardens Interpretive Centre. Approx $8 per person.
Let Bob (mayflowergardens@ns.sympatico.ca know you are coming, please.

1 - 2pm Conversation, take photos, time to wander around time in the AR Historic Gardens

45 minute travel to Sandy Cove

2:45pm - 4:15pm: Visit private residence garden on the Fundy shore, a garden of perennials and
conifers, planted in 2009 by member Bob Howard. Also the owners have extensive vegetable and flower gardens.

45 minute travel back to Annapolis Royal

5:00 - 6:00pm Visit private residence garden, with extensive plant collection made over last 20
years by the owners, inspired by Jamie Ellison and Jill Covill.

60 minute break: B&B and motels nearby or whatever.

7 - 8:30pm Dinner and drinks at Bistro East in Annapolis Royal. Mains $10-18 per person.

8:30pm on: I haven't got a clear good choice yet. Candidates are: Ye Olde Towne Pub in
Annapolis; End of the Line bar (with music?) in Bridgetown. Probably the best, if it's
happening, would be the Legion Hall or the Fire Hall, if there is a music and drinks event
happening that night. I'm researching that.

Sleep: Bread and Roses B&B (walking/ short drive in town), or other B&B/motels, see "other
places to stay" listed below.
Sunday, Sept 26

Breakfast

9:45-10am 15 minute travel to Bunchberry Nursery

10 -11:30am Visit and tour Bunchberry Nursery with owner and propagator Jill Covill
bunchberrynurseries.ca/.webloc

11:30- 12noon Drive home

AALD Fall Tour 2008 took place in southern NB from Quispamsis through Saint John & New River to St. Andrews by the Sea. The dozen or so who came saw gardens big and small, great food, and a fun time.

First stop, Brunswick Nurseries Garden Centre in Quispamsis. Yours truly (Duncan) tries to explain to the AALDers visiting Brunswick Nurseries what marigolds are...

	Next stop, a residential landscape in Quispamsis done by Urban Landscaping. Neil Pond shows us the intricate hardscape, including the checkerboard patterned grass inlaid pavers.
Marion Negreira welcomed the group at the Town of Quispamsis municipal building and showed us her elaborate plantings of annuals and permanent gardens.
	Peggy Wright showed us her lovely front garden at her home in Saint John, and hosted the delicious catered lunch.
A major treat was Bob Osborne's tour of the Oland property in New River where he has done extensive landscape renovations, including much stone work. We were blown away by the amazing landscape, heritage home, and the cottage at the mouth of the river.

Field Trip to PEI Sept 1&2/07: This is what we did:

A garden tour has been planned for you with the assistance of our new member - Jamey Smith of Red Oak Landscaping in South Winsloe PEI, Ellen Ruddick of Price Landscape Services in Moncton NB, Duncan Kelbaugh of Brunswick Nurseries Ltd in Quispamsis NB and Linda van Vulpen of Van Vulpen Design in Halifax NS

We started Saturday, September 1 at 10a.m.

Met at the PEI side of the bridge at the Visitor's Centre. From here, Jamie lead the way to a series of gardens he has created and/or maintained in the Rustico & Stanhope area.

Lunch at Fisherman's Wharf in North Rustico

Overnight in Charlottetown. Supper and social in Charlottetown

Sunday morning Sept. 2:

Confederation Landing Park (Charlottetown Waterfront) 1.5hrs + private properties in Charlottetown... then the Dunes Art Gallery Brackley Beach

The Dunes for Lunch (lunch menu averages $13 plus liquids and tax)

COST: free for members & spouse (apart from your accommodations, meals and any
admission fees where applicable) $30 for non-members plus all the above

Jamey worked out our agenda and generously showcased his work. We, all of us at AALD really appreciate this

Last residential landscaping in Charlottetown	Next he showed us a huge project he did a few years ago, in a city park by the waterfront
We just followed the bright red truck through the farms of bright red soil....	...to the Dunes, where Jamey had done some intricate design in the gardens out back.
The Dunes is a wonderful cafe, art studio, and gift shop, up near Brackley Beach	The owner wanted Jamey to create a formal pond where large ornate sculptures could be mounted to spit water into the pond
Here he's teaching Ellen to make a pond like this. She went back to NB, patented the design, and is making them for a living now...not.	The whole group. We were very thankful to Jamey for showing us so many wonderful landscapes in PEI.
The food at the Dunes was on par with the gorgeous landscape and art works.	Next time you're in PEI, take it in for sure!

KINGSTEC TREE & WINE GALA March 29, 2007 Kentville NS Reported by Linda van Vulpen

"The Kingstec Tree and Wine Gala, held March 29th in Kentville, NS, was quite a spectacular, up-scale event, VERY well attended and a good cause (a fund raiser for Sierra Leone). It is obviously very popular already among the "valley" population and this is only the second year its been held. The gardens were beautiful, well crafted, well designed, innovative, fun and skillfully put together. The Kingstec Horticulture students did a spectacular job in their garden design/construction projects. Our former AALD chair & currant teacher in the Kingstec Horticulture department, Joe Bidermann's influence in the stone applications was obvious to those of us who knew him. The food was wonderful, lots of tastes to try, wonderfully crafted by students from the culinary department and the local wines were a joy to try, and try again - an eye opener to the superb wines made here in Nova Scotia. It really was an evening that stimulated the senses. We will be watching for next year's event."

Linda van Vulpen CLD
Chair, AALD

ACES 2007: LNB's All Commodities Education Session Feb 27th & 28th, Sussex NB
This was a two day event packed full of speakers, networking, and fun, like a mini Hort East (for those who are addicted)
This year Jacki Ciphery, Water's Edge Landscaping, winner of nine LO Awards of Excellence, presented her Business Roadmap I & II, as well as Landscape Awards preparation, Workplace Health & Safety, and Maintenance of lakefront properties without chemical inputs. Several other speakers and topics were also presented.

AALD Winter Meeting & Workshop took place Feb 20, 21, 2007, NSAC, Collins Building, Truro

Hilites of the two days:
Tuesday, February 20th - Executive and committee chairs meeting
Aalders and friends went out to dinner at Keggers Restaurant in Truro
Wednesday, February 21st - for all members:
9am. -12p.m. A Drawing session for the memorial garden in NSAC Alumni Gardens lead by Tracie MacKenzie.
1:15 - 3:30p.m. lecture by Jamie Ellison of NSCC Kingstec on plant material and their function in our landscape designs

Landscape Designer Conference Jan. 8, 2007 , Toronto
A full-day design seminar that could have been your blueprint
for professional success (Just ask Ellen, she went and loved it). Blueprints also available at Walmart for $19.95.

Shots from the 2006 AGM in Truro: Click on the images to view a larger photo.   Execs Ellen, Peggy, Joe, Linda   Girls make such well-adjusted students             The Shaw guys: Kevin McGinnis &Eric Johansson       Shots from our Summer Tour 2006 in Moncton, Cornhill, and Saint John, NB   Cool paving pattern at Ellen's job   Aalders with Ellen and her client         Price Landscaping Services new office   En route to Cornhill, Dunc buys a monkey when we stopped at a metal crafter's place         The daylily table at Cornhill.   Bob tells us about daylily varieties         Massive bee, massive cone, in Bob's mass of purple coneflower. I can never resist taking these shots!   Bob shows Joe the field production beds of daylilies.         Bob walks us through the daylily rows   The Cornhill tour ends with lovely lunch in their unique restaurant, including an appetizer of sauteed daylily buds!         Second morning kicks off at Peggy Wright's house in Saint John   A newly renovated and landscaped Irving building in Saint John         Next to Duncan's Currie residence project in Rothesay.   Lots of tumbled stone walls & hardscape in renovating this 1930's mansion.         The next landscape was designed by John Higgins: the Rothesay town office.   Carol Goodwin and Ellen admire the lush perennial beds         More lush beds greet visitors at the front entrance.   Last tour stop, Brunswick Nurseries Garden Centre, where Duncan fired up the BBQ for the tourists.   Fond Memories of Field Trip 2005 to Quebec Last September,eight brave AALD souls set off from Moncton in a van to visit Kings Landing, Le Jardin, Edmundston, and Reford Gardens in Quebec. A tripful of fine flowers, food, and fun was had by all. Evidence from Hort East, Jan 18-20, 2005, Moncton   Peggy and Catherine talking to the dashing Tim Amos of Kingstec   Boys oh boys, it obviously wasn't an AALD-only crowd. It took them most of the night to get this sheepish crowd up on the dance floor! Not the AALD standard of smokin' shoes 'till 2am!         Heather, Catherine, and Wendy, probably still trying to figure out what Karaeoke song to attempt. I think that decision took all night!   Ellen Ruddick and John Higgins No doubt these two were extoling the virtues of regional certification                       In our quieter moments in the past....       Every fall we take a tour. In Sept/04, Joe Bidermann hosted us in his neck of the woods. Here he's showing us a patio he built   In Oct/03, we toured the new Harriet Irving Botanical Garden at Acadia University.           And way back in fall, 2002, John Higgins gave us a great tour of the new Fox Harbour golf course, which he designed the landscape for.