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Please join the Millbrook & Area Garden Club on Wednesday March 6th for the first meeting of 2019, a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. We will welcome guest speaker Gabby Nichols of the Ontario Invasive Plant Council. Gabby coordinates the Early Detection and Rapid Response Network of the OIPC, a citizen science program which aims to prevent the next big invasive species. There are over 400 invasive plant species in Ontario, and we are all too familiar with the waving grassy plumes of Invasive Phragmites along our roadside ditches, and Purple Loosestrife, and the unstoppable Dog-Strangling Vine. Founded in 2007, the Ontario Invasive Plant Council is a non-profit group of individuals and organizational representatives which provides leadership, expertise, and a forum to engage and empower Ontarions to take action against the threat of invasive plants. This is a great opportunity to learn how to manage these invasive species as well as the planting of non-invasive garden plant alternatives.
The Millbrook & Area Garden Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in St. Thomas Anglican Church Hall, 16 Centre St., Millbrook. Please park in the back parking lot. Admission is $3.00 at the door. Cups will no longer be available, so be sure to bring your own mug. For more information, contact Glen Spurrell, nate@nexicom.net, 705-932-1231.
