Tweed Hort held another successful, and colourful, plant sale on the Victoria Day weekend. Hort members braved the 7 a.m. Saturday setup but they were followed closely by shoppers who wanted the best choices of the lot.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Almost Ready
We've only just begun.....but so far we've collected 600 plants to be sold at our plant sale on May 21, 8 a.m. at Tweed Memorial Park on Stoco Lake. See you there.
Easy Care Perennials
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| Hort secretary Linda Holmes, left, with Dawn Golloher, owner of Gardens Plus |
Dawn
Golloher, owner of Gardens Plus in Peterborough
shared easy care perennials in her power point presentation at the May meeting
of the Tweed and District Horticultural
Society. In spite of the cool spring Ontario has been experiencing in 2016, the
46 members of the group who attended this meeting were eager to see the newest
plants “on the block” for this growing season.
Dawn’s
plant knowledge was evident as she spoke throughout the evening about the many
plants she has at Gardens Plus.
She
emphasized the need for easy care perennials so gardeners can sit back and
enjoy their gardens. When purchasing plants, she recommended checking for the
growing zone and light requirements for the plant. Also, the roots are more
important than the “tops” of the plant…..it is important to spread those roots
when planting.
Many
plant favourites were seen throughout the presentation…daffodils (no
tulips-squirrels and chipmunks dig them up), lungwort, bleeding heart, hostas,
salvia, bee balm, phlox, coneflowers, foam flower, ferns and the list goes on.
Dawn
feels that the foliage is just as important if not more important than the
bloom. For most perennials, the blooms last 6 week and the foliage is
“forever”.
Little
tips were scattered throughout Dawn’s presentation….
-Coral
bells…plant before end of July as they tend to heave during the spring if
planted later
-when
hostas are divided (and they should be), they tend to “pout” for a few years before
starting to grow aging
-when
purchasing daylilies look for a tag that says “returns” as this means the plant
reblooms and you get “more bang for your buck”.
Gardens
Plus (www.gardensplus.ca) is open from
May 6 to July 31 (closed Tuesdays). It
is located at 136 County Road#4, Peterborough
COMING
UP….
May 21…Annual Plant Sale
at Tweed Memorial Park
Plant
material for the sale should be there by 7am. Please label plants.
May 31 @ 5:30 pm…Planting the flower beds and planters
in town. Meet in the parking lot across from Valumart.
June 7…Brian Scott, a commercial beekeeper and operator
of a beekeeping supply store will be the guest speaker. Brian will bring an
observation hive, discuss how to get started to beekeeping, the benefits of
bees to crops and the difficulties faced by a modern beekeeper.
June 18….Clean up of town beds. Meet at Moira Gardens
June 26…Trip to Spindle
Tree Gardens
in Tamworth . Fee is $12 plus HST (group of 10
or more). Payment is due at June meeting.
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