A great day for a road trip with 55 fellow THS gardeners to Wyoming, Sarnia, Petrolia and Strathroy. President Christine planned a wonderful, fun filled day! We toured 2 amazing private gardens, enjoyed a delicious lunch and visited 3 garden centres. Thank you Christine!

Our day began at THS member Anne-Marie and Doug’s beautiful country property. Anne-Marie welcomed us at her unique barn graced with climbing roses. The vibrant gardens of mature trees, shrubs, wide varieties of hostas and perennial’s meander around the restored 1926 schoolhouse. The unique stag horn ferns gracefully hung from the redbud tree. The Japanese dogwood, peonies and yellow magnolia trees put on quite the show today! Anne-Marie’s greenhouses are a gardeners dream. Truly a must see garden. 

Just down the road, Lynn and her family welcomed us with coffee, cookies and a wonderful garden tour of their country property. We wandered around the elegant farmhouse on the garden paths lined with mature trees, unique boxwood hedge, large urns, garden art, a caged chandelier and lush perennials. Wonderful hosts. 

Next stop was Petrolia at Windover Nurseries. A lovely family owned garden centre specializing in Carolinian species. The garden carts filled up quickly with beautiful perennials and annuals. 

We enjoyed a delicious lunch at Wagg’s Steak & Seafood in Sarnia. 

After lunch, we travelled to a large garden centre in Sarnia, De Groot’s Nurseries. A beautiful garden centre with a wide variety of perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs and gift shop. The bus storage is getting full!!

Homebound on the 403 with a final stop in Strathroy to visit the beautiful Fairfield Garden Centre. A large selection of home grown quality nursery stock of trees, shrubs, annuals and perennials. They have a lovely selection of gifts and garden decor. They even have an indoor putting green for the bored partner😂

As our THS members made their final purchases, bus driver Stan

was busy methodically arranging our plants for the ride home to Tillsonburg after a full day.  The bus storage and overhead compartments were full! 

“I have enough plants – said no one!” 

📷Pat