May General Meeting and Flower Show
Monday, May 12, 2025
Speaker: Dugald Cameron
Topic: Clematis – flowers from spring to fall
Did you know that there are clematis that don’t climb: that there are some only 2’ tall and that you can have flower from April to October? I’ll discuss where to plant and how to grow the incredible diversity of clematis.
Dugalds gardening career began at an early age in his English Grandmother’s garden where he’d occasionally help out with weeding & digging. He must have “caught the bug” then, because he has been interested in plants and gardens ever since. Dugald, his wife Lynn Pashleigh and his Father started Gardenimport, a mail order nursery in 1983 because they couldn’t find the quality or selection of plants they wanted for their gardens. Offering a top quality selection of the latest seeds, flower bulbs and plants to Canadian gardeners from a catalogue and website, After 32 years of business Gardenimport was closed in 2014.
Dugald was on the board of directors at The Toronto Botanical Garden for 13 years and continues to volunteer there, teaching and writing for the Trellis magazine. He speaks on many subjects to Horticultural Societies in Southern Ontario and has sat in for Ed Lawrence on CBC’s Ontario Today and recently filled in for Paul Zammit on Later the Same Day. He was the founding president of the Greater Toronto Bulb Society and is a member of numerous horticultural societies. His diverse gardening interests include spring & summer flowering bulbs, shrubs, perennials and clematis.