February 26 @ 7pm Zoom: Anna Leggatt, “Gardening During Climate Change”

Join us in welcoming Anna Leggatt into our homes via ZOOM!

Please welcome Anna back to our meeting.  Anna presented to us in February 2022 and we’re glad to welcome her back to speak to us about her latest passion:  Gardening During Climate Change – Lowering Your Garden’s Carbon Footprint.  This presentation will explore how carbon is stored and how we can reduce our own carbon footprint, including some plant suggestions to cope with a changing climate. 

Anna is a self-proclaimed “mad gardener, gardening in a comparatively large garden in Toronto with lots of shade and visiting mink, deer and groundhogs.” She comes to us with lots of great qualifications:

• Former High School teacher: Botany, Chemistry
• Worked for 30 years at the Kortright Centre for Conservation
• Past Chair of the Ontario Rock Garden Society and former editor of its Journal 
• Former Program Director for East York Garden Club (now Life Member)

Anna is also a Toronto Master Gardener and has written articles for Toronto Life Gardening, Landscape Ontario and The Globe and Mail. She has travelled widely, photographing wildlife and mountain plants (+scenery and culture) in New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Western China, Japan, India, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, the Rocky Mountains, Bering Sea, Arctic Canada, South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Europe – U.K., Spain, France, Greece, Dolomites, Iran, French Polynesia, Bali.

Anna loves shrubs, bulbs, rock gardening, wildflowers, Japanese effects, working with stone and changing her garden design. She wants to grow vegetables. However, deer and groundhogs would like her to as well!