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Prices for apple trees, crabapple trees, rootstocks, scions, and apples have no GST or PST and don't include shipping. There is a $15 handling charge for shipping trees and rootstock.

The rootstocks vary in price: M9, Bud 9, M26, M7, MM106, MM111, Antonovka, SJA and Quince are approximately $3 each. It is cheaper if you buy 50 rootstocks of the same kind. Contact me for prices for 50 and more rootstocks. All orders for rootstocks must be received by the end of December. Rootstocks will be available for pick-up in mid-March.

Scionwood. $4 per scion (6-8 buds).

Apple & crabapple whips $28 each.
Branched apple and crabapple trees: $28 plus $1 a branch.
Apples (in October and early November): single variety 10 lbs for $15; mixed bags 10 lbs for $20

Blue Orchard Bees (live) available in February, March and early April only. 20 cocoons for $15.

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Apple Festivals in South Coastal B.C.


August/September TBA, 2010. Saanich Fall Fair, Saanich Fairgrounds, Stelly's Crossroad

September 18 and 19, 2010. Devonian Botanical Gardens Fruit Festival. For more information contact Wayne Fuhr by email: ‘fuhrwe’ and the symbol for ‘at’ and ‘telus.net’.

September 25, 2010. Historic Stewart Farm Apple Day.13723 Crescent Road, Surrey. 12 noon to 4 pm. Apple trees, other fruit trees, blueberry and currant bushes, grape vines, honey & bee demonstrations. No admission fee.

September TBA, 2010, Milner Gardens, Qualicum

October 2, 2010. Apple Day at Derby Reach Regional Park (GVRD), Allard Crescent, Fort Langley. 11 am to 2pm. Across from the main Historic Area Parking Lot. BC Fruit Testers will have an apple display of apples grown in south coastal B.C, a bee and honey display, and a cider-making demo. There will be apples to taste. No admission fee.

Sunday, October TBA, 2010. Ioco Ghost Days. No admission charge.12 noon to 4 pm. On the old Lawn Bowling Green, First Avenue, Ioco.
Coming from Highway 1, exit Hwy 1 just west of the Port Mann Bridge. Exit 44. The signs will say something like: Hwy 7 Lougheed Hwy Eastbound to Port Coquitlam.
Drive east on the Lougheed Hwy (Hwy 7) past Riverview to a major intersection with traffic lights at Coquitlam Centre Shopping Mall.
Turn left onto the Barnet Hwy (7A). Drive westbound on this six-lane hwy passing Lansdowne Drive, and Falcon Drive to Ioco Road (a major intersection with traffic lights). You’ll see a Tim Horton’s on the right at Ioco Road.
Turn right onto Ioco Road. Continue on Ioco Road past three lights close together, and turn left at the fourth light. This is where Ioco Road veers left. Do not go straight ahead!
Follow Ioco Road (two-lane and winding) for about 4 km to its end at First Avenue. You will see a field (old bowling green) with tents with a quaint little church on the left. A school on the right has parking spots.

Sunday, October 3, 2010. The 12th Annual Salt Spring Island Apple Festival. 9 am to 5 pm. Theme: Kids and Apples - A Magical Combination. Suggested starting place: Fulford Hall, 2591 Fulford-Ganges Road, Saltspring Island, B.C. This is your chance to finally realize what an apple treasure house we have on Salt Spring Island. I know of no other place in North America where they grow over 350 varieties of apples organically. Let's support our local growers to ensure they stay in the business.. A chance to visit Apple Heaven while still on earth! Tickets $10 each, Students $5, Children under 12 years free.
http://www.saltspringmarket.com/apples/ SEE PAST Salt Spring Island APPLE FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS AT
http://www.appleluscious.com
see also http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=218450961491&ref=nf

Saturday, October TBA, 2010. Richmond Fall Fair. 10 am to 3 pm. Richmond Museum/Art gallery/Cultural Centre at Brighouse (Granville Avenue and Minoru Boulevard). No admission charge. This event is billed as a part of Richmond World Food Day celebrations. WFD is a UN day equivalent to International Women's Day or Earth Day and is intended to raise awareness of the importance of agriculture. The theme this year in Richmond is 'celebrating local food growers'. This is a new event for the BCFTA!! We will have our apple display and a bee/honey display and we will answer questions from the public about fruit-growing in south coastal B.C.

October 16 & 17, 2010. University of B.C. Apple Festival run by the Friends of the UBC Botanical Garden. 10 am to 4 pm, 6804 South West Marine Drive, Vancouver. B.C. $2 admission fee for 18 yrs and up. Apples for sale, Apple trees for sale, apple tasting, all sorts of things associated with apples! The B.C. Fruit Testers will have a display of apples grown in south coastal B.C., grafting workshops, cider-making demos, pollination and bee displays, apple identification (bring six good apples picked from the sunny side of the tree). Apple identification is very difficult with about 6000 apple varieties grown world-wide. We know the varieties which were grown locally here prior to World War II. We may have to keep your apples and take them to a workshop we will run to identify the ones we could not identify at UBCAF and we may not be able to identify them.

October TBA, 2010. BC Fruit Testers Annual Fall Fruit Show . West Shore Centre Mall (previously called CanWest Mall), on Jacklin Road in Langford, Vancouver Island. Saturday 9.30 to 5.30, Sunday 11.30 to 3.30. A big display of apples grown in south coastal B.C., apple identification (bring six good apples picked from the sunny side of the tree), heritage fruit information, Master Gardener's to answer questions, pollination and bee displays, demonstrations of various aspects of fruit growing, insect and disease displays, etc. For more information, contact Ann Aylard at 250-656-0815, or <anaylard (symbol for at) islandnet.com>

Saturday January 30, 2010. 9.30 am to 12 noon Mason Bee Workshop
Brian Campbell provides an introduction to Mason bees: what they are and how to attract and keep them in the home garden.
Learn why and how to wash the cocoons to keep your mason bees happy and productive.
VanDusen Botanical Gardens Floral Hall or Classroom, 5251 Oak Street (37th Avenue), Vancouver.
Register in person at the registrar's office at 5251 Oak St. or over the phone by calling 604-878-9821
More information about classes and registration can be had at www.vandusengarden.org
Members VDBG $40, Non-members $55. To register:
http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/vandusen/website/adultEducation/ registration.htm

Saturday February 13, 2010. Pruning Your Orchard I
9:30-3:30. Historic Stewart Farm, 13723 Crescent Road, Surrey.
Instructor: Mary Dunn
Morning lecture in the classroom, learning about basic pruning techniques, tools, references, different methods of training fruit trees, restoring neglected trees. Afternoon is a hands-on practical session pruning in the heritage orchard. Bring a lunch, bring secateurs, loppers, and/or small pruning saws, dress warmly.
The course number is: Pruning I 1057970
$40
Register
http://www.register.surrey.ca
or by telephone: 604-501-5100

Saturday February 27, 2010. Pruning Your Orchard II
12:30-3:30. Historic Stewart Farm, 13723 Crescent Road, Surrey
Instructor: Mary Dunn. No lecture, all practical.

A supervised hands-on practical pruning class in the heritage orchard. Student must have taken
Orchard Pruning l, or the Langley Pruning class (see above).
Bring your own secateurs, loppers, and/or small pruning saws.
The course number is: Pruning II 1057971
$20
Register on-line
http://www.register.surrey.ca .
or by telephone: 604-501-5100
(Note: only two vacancies remain Feb 4, 2009)

Saturday, February 27, 2010. Seedy Saturday. 10 am to 4 pm.
This is the 21st Anniversary of VanDusen's Seedy Saturday. A celebration of heritage varieties of fruits, vegetables and ornamentals, plus organic gardening, featuring more than 30 growers, seed companies, exhibitors, and a heritage seed swap.
Admission by donation.

Saturday, March 20, 2010. B.C. Fruit Testers AGM. 9.30 am to 2 pm.
Spring Plant Sale and Annual General Meeting for members only.

Membership is available at the door. $20.

At North/South Saanich Exhibition Grounds, 1528 Stelly’s Cross Road, Saanich

What’s Happening?
9:30 – noon: Membership renewal, whip and bud grafting workshops, displays
Coffee, tea, juice, muffins and doughnuts available

Seminars: 9.30 am Bob Duncan - All You Need to Know about Growing Figs

10.30 am Brian Campbell - Bumblebees and their Relations

11.15 am Dan Thompson - Fruit Tree Viruses: Recognition and Prevention

Simultaneously, 10:00 – Noon: Order pick up and shopping for scionwood – large selection, heritage and PICO
cash table – New – Albion strawberry, Goji berries, vines, berries, rootstock, grafted trees, supplies – grafting knives, tape and more. Master Gardeners and Other Experts will be there to answer fruit-growing questions.

12:15 – 1:30 Annual General Meeting. Reports, Election of Executive

Sunday, March 21, 2010. The Edmonton Seedy Sunday Event. 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
at Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 9210 118 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta.

There will be various horticultural groups represented as well, including Heritage Seeds and other plant material not often commercially available. This yera we will have more space, a separate room for speakers, and better parking!

There will be a Seed Exchange table available as well as seed vendors, kid's table, and a cafe. Here is the place to pick up some of those rare and heritage vegetables.

For more information contact Wayne Fuhr: by email: ‘fuhrwe’ and the symbol for ‘at’ and ‘telus.net’.

http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/

Saturday, March 27, 2010. Grafting Class and Workshop 1:30 to 4:30 pm
Instructor: Leonard G. Basaraba, B.C. Fruit Testers Association
Grafting - the only way to reproduce a fruit tree. The knowledge and techniques are easily within anyone's grasp.
Attend this combined seminar and workshop to learn the theory behind grafting and how to perform simple grafts,
the why and how of this ancient art. The class is a delightful combination of botanical theory and hands-on practice,
culminating in combining dwarfing rootstock (M9) and scionwood to produce a viable apple tree for your home garden.
Learn about grafting tools, and when and how to collect and store scionwood.
Rootstock and a selection of scionwood will be available at cost for those who wish to create additional trees.
Some grafting tools and materials will be available for sale. Handouts, dwarfmg rootstock, scionwood, grafting tape
and wood for practicing will be supplied. Bring a sharp knife suitable for whittling.

Len will have a selection of scionwood at the class, but if you have a special apple tree or your neighbour has one you'd like to
duplicate, just bring scions from the tree. See page 2 of this website for instructions on 'Collecting your own Scionwood'.

You must register with Vandusen Botanical Gardens before the class. Members of VDBG $50, Non-members $65 including GST.
Tel: 604-878¬9821. For more information: www.vandusengarden.org
http://vancouver.ca/parks/parks/vandusen/website/adultEducation/ registration.htm

Saturday, April 10, 2010. Bumblebee Workshop 1 to 4 pm.

Instructor: Brian Campbell

Waht's the buzz about bumblebees? These hardworking, gentle creatures are one of our most important pollinators and deserve their space in the urban garden. Participants in this workshop will make their own bumblebee nest for their garden, discover the needs and preferences of bumblebees, and go out to look for bees in the Garden.

You must register with Vandusen Botanical Gardens before the class. Members of VDBG $50, Non-members $65 including GST.
Tel: 604-878-9821. For more information: www.vandusengarden.org

Saturday, May 1, 2010. The University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden Fruit Growers Group has organized a scionwood and seed exchange at The Devonian Botanic Garden. This is just outside of Edmonton, south on the Devon Highway # 60. 11 am to 4 pm.

http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/

Apples, Pears, Plums, Apricots, Grapes, Cherries, Honeyberries, Gooseberries etc.

Happy (Looking Forward To) Spring? to all those associated with our DBG Fruit Growers Group!
I am reminded that it is time to collect the scion wood for the spring grafting season.
I have collected some of my cultivars but have a lot more to gather up.

I encourage all of our regular associates to bring your common as well as the more rare scion wood.
It would be helpful if everyone would bring a list of all the scion wood varieties and a wish list for easy reference.

This event is a great opportunity to meet and network with a like-minded horticultural crowd and perhaps pick up an idea or two for the upcoming growing season.

I really look forward to seeing the old and meeting new growers each year.

For the last few years, our booth has been one of the most popular of all the attending associations, so there appears to be a growing interest in growing fruit trees in our area.

The request for grafting demonstrations was much in demand so I would request that you bring some material for this purpose. It is much easier to explain with a little show and tell.

You may wish have some business cards to give out to new contacts in case they have future questions about fruit growing.

Although it was a bit of a zoo last year, I think that we shall keep the format the same for the exchange.

I thought that perhaps we would hold the exchange meeting for our associates, privately before we begin the public opening, at say about 10:30 AM.

The price guide should be $2.00 per stick of 3 to 5 buds as a guide.
Bring lots of Toonies!

If you have rootstock seed for sale bring that as well.
I have some apricot and black walnut seed from last summer, of which I will have a limited supply available.

There will be coffee available but you may wish to bring some snacks for the day.
If you have any thoughts or questions please e-mail me.

For The DBG Fruit Growers Group,
Wayne Fuhr

For more information contact Wayne Fuhr: by email: ‘fuhrwe’ and the symbol for ‘at’ and ‘telus.net’.

Friday, June 11, 2010. Espalier- Pruning and Training of fruit trees 12:pm to 3 pm
Instructor: Tony Maniezzo UBC Botanical Garden Horticulturist
Students will learn the theory behind training trees into elaborate shapes. After in class lecture students will get some
hands on experience pruning existing espaliers in the Food garden. Bring hand pruners. Rain or Shine.
$33 UBCBG member, $40 general public
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/education/courses_register.php

July TBA, 2010. The B. C. Fruit Testers Association will be hosting a free fruit tree pruning workshop from 10-12 AM at the Royal Roads University orchard. Members will guide you through the fundamentals of summer pruning and its positive effects on overall fruit production. Bring your pruners and learn hands on techniques.

Demonstrations as well as opportunities for “Hands-on” pruning” of fruit trees will be done on dwarf, standard and espaliered (branches trained on a wall, lattice or single wire) fruit trees, as may be needed. Bring your hand pruners and practice under the supervision of experts, or watch whichever you prefer. Disinfectants will be provided.

Parking is available within the orchard for those with walking disabilities only. All other participants should park in the public parking area, Lot #3, the lower one near the water (pay parking, one loony required).

To get to the Pruning Workshop, drive to Royal Roads University along Sooke Road. The orchard is located behind the university’s buildings. Follow the signs from the main gate to Parking Lot #3. If you are coming from up Island, use the Sooke Road off ramp. Once at Lot # 3 look west for the Big Banner at the edge of the woods at the floral gardens. Follow the signs thru the gardens to the Orchard and onwards to the workshop site.

Coffee and tea will be available on site.

Any questions phone Michael Cowan at (250) 382-3552, Cell (250) 818-0803 or E-Mail at <edibella@islandnet.com>

Saturday and Sunday.September 18 and 19, 2010. Devonian Botanical Gardens Fruit Festival
For more information contact Wayne Fuhr: by email: ‘fuhrwe’ and the symbol for ‘at’ and ‘telus.net’.

Sales venues in 2010

Seedy Saturday, VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver: February 27, 2010, 10 am to 4 pm. Admission by donation.

Seedy Saturday at Historic Stewart Farm: April 10, 2010. 12 am to 4pm, 13723 Crescent Road, Surrey, B.C. No admission charge.

VanDusen Plant Sale: Sunday, April 25, 2010. 10 am to 4 pm. 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver. B.C. No admission charge.

South Surrey Garden Club Plant Sale: Saturday, May 8, 2010. 9 am to 12 noon. 12952 - 20th Avenue, Surrey, B.C. No admission charge.

Stewart Farm Apple Day, Saturday, September 25, 2010, 12 noon to 4 pm. 13723 Crescent Road, Surrey, B.C. No admission charge.

Apple Day Celebration, Derby Reach Regional Park (GVRD): October 2, 2010. 10 am to 1 pm. Allard Crescent in Fort Langley, B.C. (across from the main historic area parking). No admission charge.

Ioco Ghost Days. Sunday October TBA, 2010, 12 - 4 pm. If you come from Port Moody or Port Coquitlam on the Barnet Hwy turn north onto Ioco Road. There will be three traffic lights, I think. Turn left at the third light (do not go straight ahead and up the hill!). This is where Ioco Road makes sharp left had turn. Drive about two miles and you'll see a church on the left and a sharp right hand turn onto First Avenue. On the far right hand corner of this intersection you'll see the (old) Ioco Townsite's Bowling Green, now a grassy meadow. This is where Ghost days takes place. No admission charge.

UBC Botanical Gardens Apple Festival: October 16 and 17, 2010. 10 am to 4 pm. 6804 S W Marine Drive, Vancouver, B.C. $2 admission charge.

References

Directory of Apple Cultivars, Martin Crawford. 1994. 234pp. ISBN 1-874275-24-6
The Book of Apples. Joan Morgan & Alison Richards. 1993. 303 pp. ISBN:0-09-177759-3.
The Apple Book. Rosanne Sanders. 1988. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-8022-2559-4.
Fruit, Berry & Nut Inventory. ed. Ken Whealy. 560 pp. ISBN:1-882424-57-3.
The Grafter's Handbook. Robert J Garner. 1993. ISBN: 0304342742 (grafting and budding).
Pruning. Christopher Brickell. ISBN 0-85533-145-3 (espaliering)
The Lorette System of Pruning. Louis Lorette.1946 (translation). 239 pp
Intensive Orchard Management. Bruce H Barritt.1992. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-9630659-1-2.(rootstocks, staking, training)
How to Manage the Blue Orchard Bee for Orchard Pollination. Jordi Bosch & Wm Kemp. 2001. 88 pp. ISBN 1-888626-06-2
The Mason-Bees. J Henri Fabre. 1914 (translation). 315 pp.
The Forgotten Pollinators. Stephen L Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan. 1996. 292pp. ISBN: 1559633522.
Note: many of these books will be available in your local library or the library can bring them in from a nearby library.

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