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Agawa Canyon - Oct. 8 to 10
Toledo's Westgate Dinner Theatre
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OUT FOR THE DAYS\
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Gazing
at Gardens
by Sheila Richards
Preparing this month's column was
such a pleasure as I talked to
"gardeners" and what nice people
they are. Please join me on visits to
Blyth, Bayfield, a rural organic
gardening endeavour near Auburn, a
country perennial and rose garden
and finally a visit to Goderich to a
long-established perennial garden.
No doubt many of you attend the
Summer Festival in Blyth. Walking in
a northerly direction from the theatre
on the east side of the street you will
find two gardens well worth visiting.
The first belongs to Margaret and
Earl Caldwell and features roses,
dahlias, geraniums and a lovely plan-
ting of pansies, dusty miller
underneath a trimmed evergreen. The
large deck at the back, with a foun-
tain in the corner surrounded by
geraniums, is really a highlight as well
as the many containers holding plants
in the back garden, and hanging
plants on the front veranda. An old
shopping cart turned on end is also an
interesting way of displaying flowers.
The vegetable garden has a lovely
flowered border including Little Lulu
marigolds. The Caldwell garden pro-
vided flowers for many different oc-
casions and Marg's love of colour is
very evident in a newly laid out bed
featuring celosia, marigolds, petunias
and varigated evonymous.
Norma Daer's flower and vegetable
garden, just two houses north, is also
well worth a visit. Look for some very
interesting and different types of
geraniums feverfew, monkshood, a
most practical substitute for
delphinium for that desired touch of
blue in the garden. You will find
Maltese Cross and attractive com-
binations of impatiens, pansies and
wax begonias. Norma's vegetable
garden is also a sight to behold and is
the source of supply for many of her
friends and neighbours.
A visit to Ada and Stewart Ball,
who live on the original family farm
just south of Auburn in the Maitland
Block, is also fascinating. Stewart
gardens organically and has a most
interesting vegetable garden. Using
straw as a mulch has produced ex -
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cellent results with his tomatoes and
potatoes. Look for buckwheat grow-
ing at the front of the house, the
source of buckwheat honey in the
apiary located close by. Stewart
swears by his Troy built rototiller and
he uses rototan and wood ashes to
good advantage. You'll see peanuts,
the garlic spread, comfrey plants and
the different varieties of potatoes.
Maybe he will take you for a walk
through the farm to view the location
of the old saw mill; be sure to ask
him how he fends off groundhogs,
keeps the robins out of the strawber-
ries and the story of the lumber used
on his house. The Balls live at R.R. 1,
Auburn and their phone number is
526-7729.
Marion Zinn of R.R. 2, Lucknow
has a spectacular rose garden with
over eighty rose bushes. Favourites
are the Tropicana, Karl Herbst,
Queen Elizabeth and a pink Peace.
For good roses she recommends digg-
ing down to the hard pan, putting in a
layer of well rotted manure and then
replacing the soil. On the south side
of the house is a large perennial bed
with old-fashioned favourites
peonies, iris, lupins, foxglove, canter -
bury bells, regal lillies and cleome.
Marion says that gardening is a great
therapy. Her spring garden, featuring
5,000 tulips of all colours, is spec-
tacular. You find her home on the
west side of Huron Road One bet-
ween Lucknow and Dungannon.
Look for the real estate sign on the
front lawn.
Just north of Bayfield on Highway
21, Leda and Alec McAllister have
built their home with a garden layout
which is interesting and very prac-
tical. It is a garden that follows the
contour of the land and is very
naturally laid out, but with a great
deal of thought. Mixed in with the
perennials and wild flowers are sixty-
four varieties of herbs. These and
other plants are used in the making of
teas, vinegars, jams, jellies and wines.
What fun it was to see that bane of all
corn growers, milkweed, growing in a
small clump, because it attracts the
monarch butterflies and is an edible
plant. Many of the herbs attract bees
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