James and I went to the garden club meeting. I was a little worried since there were so many mosquitoes about, but James was good, settling down under the mosquito netting, and I used Dionne's herbal mosquito repellent. Onward for the tour!
Amongst the towers of sunflowers (they help take the metals out of the soil) there was milk thistle, Campanula (can cut down and it just spreads and spreads), Skullcap, and California poppies. 
Members (Erica) seemed most interested in the ones that had calming and sleeping benefits.
Once dark, we headed inside for the meeting and enjoyed lilac cordial with pretty floating ice cubes of calendula and violas (all homemade from flowers in her garden).
We talked about:
- Building bee hotels in the future- the plant exchanges happening on the weekend
- The Open Farm Days at Northlands - Margaret continues to recommend the tours. Hopefully it'll still be around next year for others in the club to partake.
