It was a beautiful day for a road trip with 56 fellow THS gardeners to the Kitchener, Waterloo area. President Christine again, planned a well organized fun filled day! We toured an interesting private garden and 3 garden centres. Thank you Christine!

We started our day at “Pendragon Hosta Gardens”, a medieval theme private garden. We were welcomed under the Japanese Maple by a statue of a little girl reading “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table” book. The medieval stories unfolds in the backyard with Merlin, fairies, dragons, Sword’s of Stone and Lancelot. Over 200+ varieties of hostas intertwined this amazing garden. Thank you to our gracious host Lorraine for sharing her garden with us. 

The coach rolled down the road to West Montrose to the first garden centre, Shady Lane Greenhouse & Perennials. This was a small country, family owned garden centre. They had a great variety of healthy annual and perennial. 

We enjoyed a delicious lunch at Kennedy’s  Restaurant, St. Agatha. 

After lunch, we travelled to Petersburg to Meadow Acres Garden Centre. A family owned full service garden centre. They had a large variety of outdoor plants, perennials, annuals, tropicals, garden decor and a beautiful gift shop. The bus storage is getting full!!

Just down the road we travelled to our final stop, Colour Paradise Greenhouses. We were welcomed by an explosion of colourful annuals, tropicals and perennials.

As our THS members made their final purchases, our “new” bus driver Stan, kindly and methodically arranged our plants for the ride home to Tillsonburg after a full day.  The bus storage and overhead compartments are full! 

The quote of the day was “I’m coming on the bus tour but I’m not buying anything.” Let’s just say the bus was full of plants. 

📷Pat