The Cobourg Horticultural Society will hold its annual plant sale on Saturday, May 19,  2012, from 9 – 11 am, at the Columbus Community Centre, 232 Spencer Street East, at D’Arcy, in Cobourg.

The plant sale will as usual have a wide range of plants from members’ gardens, many varieties of perennials, herbs, shrubs, heritage tomatoes, and house plants.  Look for the ever popular hostas, peonies, dahlias, and more!  A yard sale of donated garden-related implements, decorations, tools and books is part of the fun.  Shop early for the best choices, at the friendliest prices!

A large committee works on the plant sale, and most of the society’s 100 members participate by digging and potting up plants, starting seeds, providing advice to buyers, and helping with the sale. The tables at the Columbus Centre are laden on the Friday before the sale, with Plants for Shade, Plants for Sun, and so on, but once the doors open at 9 am on Saturday, there is a great rush, and two hours later the hall is practically bare.

The plant sale has grown over the years to be a major fund-raiser for the work of the society, which provides an annual scholarship to a graduating Cobourg high-school student pursuing post-secondary education in horticulture or related studies.  A recent project partly funded by the club is the installation of six raised beds at the Cobourg Daycare Centre, for the children to plant and enjoy vegetables through the summer.

Everyone is welcome, but come early for the best buys!

For more information call Bill Prawecki, 905.373.4651, bill.prawecki@sympatico.ca, or visit www.cobourggardenclub.org

To celebrate Cobourg’s 175th anniversary, Cobourg Horticultural Society is donating an 1812 Rose to the Rose Garden in Victoria Park, which is maintained by club members. There will be a brief official planting ceremony, at the Rose Garden, and all are welcome.

Background information:

The 1812 Rose is the official rose of the  2012 Ontario Horticultural Association Convention, & The War of 1812 Bicentennial Celebration.  It is a red, scented floribunda, which grows to 3-4 feet, has been especially grown for the Ontario Horictural Association, which holds its annual convention in Niagara Falls this summer. The rose was developed Palatine Fruit & Roses, a family owned nursery in the Niagara region, and is named The 1812 Rose.

If you have any questions regarding this, please do call me.

Sarah Holland
President, Cobourg Horticultural Society.
905.349.3710

Thursday, April 26, 7 – 8:30 pm
Villa St. Joseph Retreat Centre
44 Monk Street, Cobourg
Gardening facts and fun for all ages and abilities:

• Learn tips to grow your own vegetables
• Ask questions of gardening experts
• Find out about community gardening opportunities, affordable organic
• growing techniques and food accessibility
• Discover where to go for fresh produce in Northumberland County
• Learn about the Plant-a-Row, Grow-a-Row program
• Seed planting activity for children
• Refreshment break
• Door prizes

To find out more call Sister Linda at (905) 372-2741 or email her at villa@eagle.ca

Registration begins at 8:30 am

$60.00

Includes 4 fabulous speakers, Live Auction, a light lunch/ beverages/home baking!  Prizes! Great Friends!

Download the agenda

March 16-25            Canada Blooms, Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto

April 5, 6 & 7           Peterborough Garden Show, Evinrude Centre, Peterborough – For the Love of Gardening

Sunday, June 24       Heart of Northumberland Big Sisters Big Brothers Garden Tour

Sunday, July 8          Horizons of Friendship - Houses, Gardens and Music Tour

OHA and District 4 Events in 2012

March 17            Spring Get Together, Peterborough Library, 1 – 3.30 pm

April 21               District 4 AGM, Minden Community Centre, 9 am – 3.30 pm

June 13               District 4 Lunch and Awards Celebration, Naval Club, Peterborough, 11 am – 3 pm

August 17-19      OHA Convention, Niagara College, Niagara-on-the-Lake -                           Gardening then and now

• Floribunda – Old Fashioned
• Scented
• Height: 3′ – 4′
• Very large and full crimson red blossoms.
• Repeat Bloomer.
• Disease resistant – Hardy
• Grown & tended for by Palatine Fruit & Roses a family-owned nursery.

HOW TO ORDER
 
Cobourg Club Members – Use the B&W version of the order form handed out at the December 7 meeting.  You can download the form here. Please bring the completed form and your money to the February 2012 meeting. We will send all orders to the OHA for bulk purchase and delivery. We should have them for our April meeting or May at the latest. 

Anne Parks

The premise of this excellent new (2010) book is that we can all save energy (and money) by making changes to the landscaping around our property. The author shows ways to conserve not only operating energy such as fuels for mowers, etc. and electricity for lighting but also embedded energy – that is energy used to create the equipment and materials we use in our landscaping.

The book is organized in sections on design arrangement, building and caring, methods of generating home energy, and energy efficient lighting. Chapters are short and precise so the book can be used as a reference work as well as enjoying cover to cover.

Available at the Cobourg Public Library at 712.6 Ree and possibly others in Northumberland.

Keith Stratton