Hypertufa Container Workshop: August 11th – $20.00

Member’s Garden Tour: July 7th @ 6:30 p.m.

Please join us at 7:30 p.m. in the Senior’s Centre to be entertained by award-winning Horticulturalist, Frank Kershaw on the topic of The Recycled Garden. Frank will show us how to re-purpose those old garden implements and yard sale treasures to add personality and character to your landscape and create a year-round focal and curiosity point.

2015 Garden Auction

Crystal Bradford and Liam Kijewski,  from Wildlife Gardening are joining us on May 5th at 7:30 p.m. in the Tillsonburg Senior Centre to talk about Rain Gardens. Both Crystal and Liam have a strong appreciation and genuine passion for the natural environment. Their concern with environmental and social issues plaguing the world, has guided and continues to guide  their career. Crystal was an active voting member and past chair/vice-chair for the Woodstock Environmental Advisory Committee. She won an Energy Ambassador of Canada award in 2006. Crystal currently teaches and develops lesson plans for the Eco-Arts at The Button Factory/Waterloo Community Arts Centre.  Before starting Wildlife Gardening with Crystal, Liam worked at a seed research station, a sod company and as a restoration ecologist and is now a Certified Seed Collector.  Together, Crystal and Liam co-ordinate Kitchener-Waterloo’s Procession of the Species celebration, they host a radio program called Non-Toxic Airwaves, an educational outreach project and they created and run Trash Theatre, an interative educational program.

Warren Ham, from August’s Garden will be our guest speaker the first Tuesday of April (April 7th) at 7:30 p.m. in the Seniors Centre auditorium at Tillsonburg Community Centre. Warren grew a ¼ acre of garlic 27 years ago. Over the years Warren has been a part of growing fields of garlic  from 1  to 100 acres.  The farm has supplied some of the major grocery chains across Canada and the US, but mainly   providing garlic seed to individual growers, farmers, and seed houses across North America.  August’s Harvest brokers local garlic crops, as well as importing from the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.

Guest speaker, Nancy Anderson from Whistling Gardens will speak on Horticultural Therapy.

 The 2015 Board of Directors of the Tillsonburg Horticultural Society were sworn into office at the January General Meeting.

Back Row (L – R) Diana Thompson, Catherine Burke, Ben Janssens, Albert Acre, Penny Esseltine, Jan Torrell, Monique Booth, Juley Van Daalen, Dena Luyt, Mignonne Trepanier, Marie Smith,
Front Row (L – R) Marian Smith, Judi Misener, Karen Banks, Christine Nagy
Absent: Sandra Lambrecht, Joan Massicotte, Carol Maybury

2014 Junior Gardeners

This past year, there were 116 enthusiastic young gardeners who participated in our Junior Gardener program. The children picture here attended the year-end pizza party and received awards for the gardening efforts. We are looking to expand this programme in 2015.