A great morning had by all at Ramblin Road Brewery for the THS Spring Workshop! Thank you to Patty P for hosting, instructing and co organizing with Barb Q. Awesome work ladies👏
Twenty THS members arrived with hammers and a couple nail guns to construct garden fan trellis and a star trellis. We all had fun and worked together on the garden projects.
📷 Pat
Tillsonburg Horticultural Society and Meals On Wheels volunteers delivered together warm meals and a beautiful poinsettia to members of the community today.
The Tillsonburg Horticultural Society donated beautiful poinsettias for this heart warming program.
📷 Jen and Pat
Many hands make light work🍂
A special thank you to everyone involved in the fall cleanup at the Senior Centre garden on Oct 19, 2024.
Awesome work Caroline, Ella, Lexi, Jamie, Jill, Kathy, Betty, Diane and Dena.
📷Caroline
“Our Volunteer Work Matters”
Thank you to the THS volunteers that plant and nurture the community gardens of Tillsonburg. The gardens include Annandale House NHS, Tillsonburg Senior Centre, Bert Newman Park, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 153 and Tillsonburg Station Arts.
Many hours are spent throughout the year planning, planting, watering, fertilizing, weeding and cleanup.
Our largest garden, Annandale House NHS is an elegant garden with some unique plantings. The fall gardens are putting on a colourful show.
This year the Town of Tillsonburg installed outdoor landscape lighting. Some plantings were disturbed and moved to accommodate the installation.
New plantings to the Annandale House were white star magnolia, coneflower, summer crush hydrangea and yellow peony bush.
The volunteers are preparing the gardens for winter and have planted daffodils.
Thank you to Chairperson Liz and gardener volunteers Lois, Jamie, Mary, Lucy and Tony for their dedication to this treasured garden.
The Senior Centre gardens welcome seniors and friends to the centre. The fall gardens are abound with colour.
This year, volunteers placed name identification tags by the plants in the gardens. The gardens have a mix of annual, perennial and native plants.
Volunteers are preparing the gardens for winter and planting spring bulbs.
We appreciate the dedication to the Senior Centre gardens by THS director Dena, co-chair Diana and volunteer gardeners.
The THS volunteers that have rejuvenated the serene gardens at Bert Newman Park.
A floating cloud japanese maple was planted in memory of a family member from a resident of the community this spring. To the butterfly garden, a new hydrangea and additional plants were added to attract butterflies and other pollinators.
The gardens were full of colour and a variety of interesting perennials this year. Fall mums were planted in the center garden. The large tree canopy provides shade and challenges for some of the plantings.
Volunteers have been preparing the gardens for winter. They recently planted 260+ spring bulbs.
We appreciate director Cathy, volunteer gardeners Anne, Melanie, Jan, Christine, Barb Q, Barb V and “Ruby”🐾❤️
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 153 gardens are special to many as we remember all who have served Canada. The highlight is the flower cross.
This year, volunteers planted blue arrow junipers to replace ailing white cedars. The junipers need less room to grow and fit in well in the limited space between the building and the sidewalk.
The flower cross gracefully welcomes our veterans and friends to the Legion. The ladies changed the design of the cross plantings with a border around the cross using dusty miller to contrast with the red begonias.
The Legion placed a new garden at the back of the building by the parking lot.
Fall cleanup is underway and spring bulbs have been planted.
We appreciate THS director Jean and volunteers gardeners Hanna, Jane and Jenny for their dedication to the Legion gardens.
The Tillsonburg Station Arts is a small but artistic garden. The THS care for the seasonal urns and flowers from Tillsonburg Garden Gate.
Thank you to THS Director Sue, Tillsonburg Garden Gate and Green Theory.
Photo credit: Pat Z, Cathy K and Jean M
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Last night, was a perfect evening for the Tillsonburg Horticultural Society “Members Only” Garden Tour. It was a wonderful opportunity to enjoy beautiful gardens and socialize with fellow members while enjoying what we love.
Thank you to four THS members for graciously opening their gardens for the evening tour. Sue, Liz, Jean and Frank welcomed the members on the self guided tour between 6:00-8:00pm. The gardens were different, beautiful and unique. We saw a variety of perennial, annual, native plants and vegetable gardens. Enjoy the photos of each garden.
After the tour garden, Matt, Linda, Thea and Johnny Fenn welcomed us to their family business, Tillsonburg Garden Gate for a social. They thoughtfully served refreshments, treats and set up tables to relax and socialize. We toured their beautiful garden center and members selected lovely perennials and annuals. The Fenn’s generously gave members a 25% discount on purchases and door prizes. Thank you for your continued support to the Tillsonburg Horticultural Society and our community.
Our Volunteer Work Matters🌸
Last week, the Ontario government held a ceremony at the London Hellenic Centre to recognize the efforts of many volunteers through the Ontario Volunteer Service Awards.
Volunteers are nominated by an organization to receive a personalized certificate and lapel pin celebrating their years of service.
The THS is extremely proud and appreciates all of our volunteers. This year, five THS volunteers were nominated and received the Ontario Volunteer Service Award.
Congratulations to –
Annie Lesage – 5 years
Margaret McCrimmon – 5 years
Angela Lassam – 10 years
Jean Mann – 15 years
Judi Misener – 15 years
Ernie Hardeman, Oxford MPP and
Terence Kernaghan, London North Centre MPP presented the awards to our volunteers.
📷 Judi, Angela & Marian
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
