It’s been a long, cold winter – and longer still since the Bond Head-Bradford Garden Club held an in-person meeting, thanks to COVID.
The Club is celebrating the return of warmer weather, the lifting of restrictions on gatherings, and its 47th anniversary - it started in 1975, as the Bond Head & District Horticultural Society – with an Anniversary Meeting on Thursday, April 28, 7 p.m. at the Danube Seniors Leisure Centre.
The theme is “Welcome in Spring,” and not only will there be birthday cupcakes, co-presidents Mikki Nanowski and Giselle Gutsche have arranged for a special presentation and workshop that will let every participant create a spring-themed floral centrepiece to take home.
The workshop is being led by Teresa Aukema of Mid Valley Gardens, a wholesale business in the Holland Marsh founded in 1952 by the Hanemaayer family, that specializes in fresh quality flowers and flower arrangements for all occasions.
Aukema, a floral designer, now manages the family-owned and operated business, and will demonstrate how to create a floral masterpiece.
Cost of the workshop is $25 per person, which includes Spring flowers, vase and instruction – but only $15 for Garden Club members.
Anyone interested in taking part in the workshop is asked to contact Lynda Usher at 905-775-3188 or email [email protected] by April 14, to RSVP. Participants are also asked to bring a cutting tool (not kitchen scissors), and wear a face mask (a requirement of the Danube Centre; the centre also asks for proof of vaccination).
Just want to watch? Everyone is welcome to come out, enjoy an anniversary cupcake, and sign up for the Bond Head-Bradford Garden Club.
The Garden Club meets at the Danube Seniors Leisure Centre, 715 Simcoe Road in Bradford, on the fourth Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m., from March to June and September to November. Meetings usually include a guest speaker or workshop, an opportunity to ask questions and share gardening advice and, during the growing season, a mini flower show.
Annual memberships are only $15 per person, $25 per couple. New members are welcomed. Contact [email protected] to or come to any meeting and join the Club.
