A True community Garden

Here is Ellice wishing her amaranth plant well. A friend of the Garden started this plant from seed in spring and donated it to The Riverside Residence garden bed. This type of community gardening warms my heart!

Happy Summer Solstice!

Clematis

My how time is flying. Summer is here already! Some updates on what's been going on in the garden over these past couple of busy weeks:

-all of the garden beds are now planted! Groups involved in planting and caring for the raised and ground beds include: Independent Living, Riverside Glen Retirement and Long Term Care, Friends of the Family Senior Care and Family Resources, Community Living, Riverside Residence, The Warley Family, KidZGrow participants, and many more individuals.

-60 grade 3's from Ken Danby recently visited to explore the garden with their keen senses. They brought scarlet runner bean seedlings that they started in class and brought them to plant in the GEG.

-currently flowering in the garden are beautiful clematis, chives, chamomile, pink and white peonies (they smell heavenly). The lavender will start to come into flower soon.

Chamomile and Chives

Peonies

-we held two 'knit knites' in the GEG so far. These events are held every other Monday and provide a very relaxing opportunity to get your knitting/crocheting/portable craft projects done in a beautiful setting with others. Our next 'knit knite' takes place Monday July 4th at 6:30 pm.

-we held 3 horticultural therapy teaching sessions in the spring so that community members can get a sense of how plants can offer us gifts for healing, growth and pleasure. Many more exciting sessions are taking place throughout the summer months. Check out 'upcoming events' tab to the right for more information.

Hooray!

Maria and Ollie from Friends of the Family Senior Care and Family Resources visited the GEG to plant today.

The colours of the plants they chose complement each other so well: pink and white mums with silvery dusty miller. When the planting was done, Ollie let out a triumphant cheer. I have a feeling that his act of encouragement benefited the plants beautifully.

Planting at Kidsability garden tomorrow

This is a reminder to Kidzgrow participants that we will be having tomorrow's session (June 7th) at the Kidsability garden at the West End Rec Centre (the garden is located in the parking lot right in front of the kidsability office). See you there at 4:30 pm!

The rest of the sessions will continue in the Guelph Enabling Garden.

Community Living comes to plant

Folks at Community Living (Flaherty House) were happy to be at the GEG to finally plant. The first couple of scheduled days at the Garden were cancelled due to non-ideal planting weather conditions, so everyone was very grateful for the nice warm sunshiney weather we had today.

Nice brightly coloured flowers now fill the bed.

Great job guys and gals!