A nice autumn visit

Friends Harmony, Christina, and Anand, visited the GEG last Thursday to explore the garden and to collect Butterfly Weed seeds for an upcoming seed project involving local schools. Though a bit nippy, the garden is still looking great and there are still interesting flowers, textures and colours to enjoy.

Pressed Flower Greeting Cards

Members of The Guelph Wellington Seniors Association Outreach Group made beautiful greeting cards from pressed flowers that garden clients and volunteers preserved. The timing of this activity was great, being so close to Thanksgiving.
We used 100 lb cardstock, cut and folded to our desired size. Then we pasted the pressed flowers with podge, a glue-like material that seals and dries on clear. It is easy to adapt this activity to make framed pictures as well. One of the loveliest things about this project is that it gives folks an opportunity to really take a close up look at the delicate design of a flower and to realize that nature is a work of art itself.

Fall Clean-Up

Today Enabling Garden volunteers helped to cut down perennials and spread mulch, getting the beds ready for winter.
University of Guelph students were on hand to help out with the tasks. What wonderful workers. The rain did not stop these girls from coming out and participating in community work.

Thanks so much, everyone, for all of your help today. Your involvement makes our garden a very special place to be in :)