Georgian Bay Garden Club members are a hard-working, community-minded group. Our community outreach projects include maintaining the large Garden-on-the-Bay (on the waterfront beside the Bayshore Community Centre), the Inglis Falls garden (at a popular conservation area on the Niagara Escarpment) and large planters outside the Owen Sound Public Library and Tom Thomson Art Gallery.
The Club also gives an annual grant toward the floral displays in downtown Owen Sound, and offers bursaries to post-secondary landscape design & horticulture students. Members also place weekly floral designs inside the Public Library. Funds for these projects are raised by the annual garden tour, plant sale and Canada Blooms bus trip. Last year the Club celebrated its 20th anniversary and, as part of the celebrations, published a history of the Club’s first two decades titled Earth on Their Hands. Other 20th anniversary celebratory events included a Garden Symposium and flower show, both open to the public and attracting rave reviews.

Georgian Bay Garden Club Program for 2013

January 14: Japanese Style Garden
Judy Gay, (club member, Master Gardener)

February 11: Chemical free Gardening
Verna Breckenhauer (Grey County Master Gardener)

March 11: The Smell of Fear: What to Do about those Pesky Critters
Sue Connelly (Grey County Master Gardener)

April 8: Ecological Design
Trudy Grantham (Horticulture, & Design Judge, Teacher, Demonstrator)

May 13: Underwater Designs
Anne Clark-Stewart (Horticulture, Design, Lilium & Rose Judge, Demonstrator)

June 10: June Potluck and Auction
Auctioneer: (club members)

June 23: Annual Garden Tour

July: No meeting

August 12: Picnic meeting in a member's garden

September 9: Ikebana Design
Mitzi Yau (Demonstrator)

October 21: Daffodils
Michael Erdman (Horticulture Judge, Pres. Greater Toronto Bulb Society, Beach Garden Society)

November 11:Creating Outdoor Winter/Christmas Planter(s)
Mary Cordell (club member, artist)

December 9: Christmas Luncheon
Place to be determined

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