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Tuber Prep Work Bee

Tuber Prep Workshop: March 25, 2023 Come and help trim, bag, label and organize the dahlia tubers on March 25, 2023 at Lorne & Marilyn’s starting at 10 am. If we don’t get it all done in one day we…

The Alberta Dahlia and Glad Society had a good showing in the annual Rumsey Red Deer River Garden Club show on Aug 31, 2022. In fact, our club brought all the dahlias and glads! Terri-Lynn and Ron Dodd submitted the…

Flower Show and Flower Sales 2022

Come and join us (Alberta Dahlia and Glad Society) for our sanctioned flower show and flower sales at the only Trial Garden in Canada! Aug 19, 2022 (Friday) anyone can exhibit their glads and dahlias, staging is from 7 am…

Photo Contest

Let’s submit lots of photos for our contest on August 19, 2022. Wendy Kingsmith is taking charge of this project (Thanks Wendy!) and Darrell Hatt has made the easels. There’s lots of room and it would be nice to have…

Alberta Bus Tour

The bus tour that Ken organized is not just for our American visitors… it is for anyone who wants to go. He has worked very hard to get prices down and have interesting stops. I think that he was expecting…

Judging Courses for Glads and Dahlias

In conjunction with our “Summer Celebration” on Aug 6 & 7, 2022 we will be having glad and dahlia judging courses. On Saturday Aug 6 from 10 am to noon we will be having a glad judging course (followed by…

Summer Celebration August 6 & 7th, 2022

There will be a workshop on this Saturday afternoon at Lorne & Marilyns (April 23, 2022) starting around 1 pm. We are taking the dahlia plants that have been started in little pots in the greenhouse attached to the shop,…

Tuber Sale 2022 Starts March 25, 2022

Alberta Dahlia and Glad Society Tuber Sale Starts March 25, 2022 Click here for list of Tubers Just make a list of the tubers you want and email the list to: debhatt@xplornet.com. We will put your order together and contact…

Annual General Meeting Nov 14, 2021

Our annual general meeting will be Nov 14, 2021 (Sunday at 2 pm) at Mike Walliser’s shop at: #8, 7957-49 Ave., Red Deer Click here for the Agenda

Trial Garden Clean-up 2021

After we have a hard frost we will be letting everyone know that we can start to dig up the dahlias in the trial garden. We are not allowed to keep the tubers of the dahlias in the middle row…

Garden Tour – Progressive lunch event August 27, 2021

This garden tour has been a long time coming! We are meeting at Deb & Darrell Hatt’s at 10 am on Aug 27, 2021 (Friday) for coffee and muffins, leaving at 11:15 for the 40 minute drive to Evan and…

Flower sale at 3 pm on Aug 21,2021 at Red Deer, Alberta. At the close of our annual Alberta Dahlia and Glad Society annual flower show we sell all the flowers as bouquets or arrangements.

Photo Contest 2021 Red Deer, Alberta

Don’t forget to take photos of your dahlias and glads. We hope to have lots of entries in our Flower Show Aug 20 & 21, and then some will be sent to the NAGC photo contest in October. The photos…

Flower Show Our annual Flower Show is our BIG event on August 20 & 21, 2021, and the judges’ results will be sent to the American Dahlia Society and recorded. We will need lots of volunteers: “Many hands make light…