Peninsular Rose Club - CanWest Hort Trade Show

CanWest Horticultural Trade Show, Vancouver BC

Every September, the wholesale horticultural industry in Western Canada holds its annual trade show at the Canada Place convention centre in Vancouver. This year's show was on Sept. 8 and 9. Trevor Inkpen was at the show showing off the Canadial Nursery Landscape Association Web site, and brought back these pictures. Click on the pictures to see a large photo. Use your browser's Back button to return here.

Teddy Bear - from Mini Roses, grown in Canada by Wilson Vancouver Belle, gorgeous new patio introduction from Select Roses and Brad Jalbert Flower Carpet Coral - new groundcover rose, grown in Canada by Pan American Pink Patio Wonder (Select)

Rainbow's End
(Mini Roses) La Sevillana
(Meilland)
Snow Bride
(Jolly, grown by Wilson) Angel Darling
(Moore, grown by Wilson) Cornsilk
(Mini Roses)

Vancouver Belle is an introduction that will start selling next year, and the grower wouldn't part with so much as a twig of it, because every one of the existing plants is needed for propogating new stock. Also from Select Roses is Sandalwood, a russet brown miniature similar in colour to Teddy Bear, but with longer, pointed petals.

The theme of the CanWest show this year was "Way Out West", with pioneer / cowboy motifs all over.

As soon as you stepped into the CanWest Show exhibition hall, you were in the Wild West Rose breeder Brad Jalbert of Select Roses in their "Sherrif's Office" theme display booth Pan American Roses had a model of a steam engine, with real steam! Adamson Heritage Nurseries - wholesale growers of own-root roses Cannor Nurseries had a display with a nice arbour and hedge

Specimen Trees, a wholesale tree grower, won the best of show for their tree "mountain" with a railway tunnel running through it Another angle of Specimen Tree's display. Cartana Sales, a wholesale supplier, got into the act with costumes and a goldminers town setting Burnaby Lake, a wholesale tropicals nursery, won a prize for their mountains with a cyclamen "waterfall" Kato's Nursery's prize-winning display featured an antique Massey Harris tractor

These trade shows are where your local garden center owners and buyers meet with the wholesale growers and suppliers, and make their arrangements for the plants and products that you'll see next spring in your local nursery.

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Teddy Bear - from Mini Roses, grown in Canada by Wilson	Vancouver Belle, gorgeous new patio introduction from Select Roses and Brad Jalbert	Flower Carpet Coral - new groundcover rose, grown in Canada by Pan American	Pink Patio Wonder (Select)


Rainbow's End (Mini Roses)	La Sevillana (Meilland)	Snow Bride (Jolly, grown by Wilson)	Angel Darling (Moore, grown by Wilson)	Cornsilk (Mini Roses)


As soon as you stepped into the CanWest Show exhibition hall, you were in the Wild West	Rose breeder Brad Jalbert of Select Roses in their "Sherrif's Office" theme display booth	Pan American Roses had a model of a steam engine, with real steam!	Adamson Heritage Nurseries - wholesale growers of own-root roses	Cannor Nurseries had a display with a nice arbour and hedge


Specimen Trees, a wholesale tree grower, won the best of show for their tree "mountain" with a railway tunnel running through it	Another angle of Specimen Tree's display.	Cartana Sales, a wholesale supplier, got into the act with costumes and a goldminers town setting	Burnaby Lake, a wholesale tropicals nursery, won a prize for their mountains with a cyclamen "waterfall"	Kato's Nursery's prize-winning display featured an antique Massey Harris tractor