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Huron Perth garden tour offers stamp contest
Tours upon tours
The Discover the Gardens of Huron Perth program invites people to take both self- and owner-
guided tours of 31 different gardens in the area through the annual pamphlet (see inset).
Above is the Purple Rooster garden, located near Gorrie and owned by Ron and Linda
Henhoeffer. (Photo submitted)
For its seventh year in operation,
the Discover the Gardens of Huron
Perth garden tour committee is
unveiling some new features and
new gardens to keep the annual
program fresh.
The committee puts out a
pamphlet every year, including a
map of the two counties,
highlighting dozens of gardens and
garden-related businesses for
“greenthumbs” and visitors to the
area.
The original idea, according to
committee member Rhea Hamilton-
Seeger, came from Bruce County
which has run the program for a
number of years.
This year, the most notable
addition to the program is the
Garden Bucks that can be obtained
by visitors.
Dubbed the Garden Bucks
Contest, the event instructs visitors
to visit five different gardens,
receive five stamps and mail the
stamped pamphlet back to
Hamilton-Seeger.
“We thought it would be a good
way to encourage people to keep
visiting,” she said.
Hamilton-Seeger isn’t just in
charge of administering the
program, but one of the three prizes
is dinner for four at Applegarth
Garden at her home.
“We’ve done dinners like that
before,” she said, adding that
German food was often popular.
“It’s fun and it’s a chance to spend
more time in the garden.”
The winner of that particular prize
will be able to set up the dinner with
Hamilton-Seeger.
The other two prizes are two $100
“Garden Bucks” packages which
can be spent at any garden on the
tour that offers plant sales.
The contest requires that entries
be postmarked by Sept. 16 to be
delivered to Hamilton-Seeger. The
draw date is set Sept. 23.
Another interesting addition to the
pamphlet this year is a slightly wider
base, Hamilton-Seeger said, which
includes farmers’ markets. While the
markets aren’t listed on the map, the
reverse side of the pamphlet directs
visitors to them.
Hamilton-Seeger explained that
farmers’ markets, depending on
what people can find, can either be
the starting point or the ending point
for a lot of gardening projects.
Significant amounts of produce that
can be purchased at farmers’
markets come from smaller gardens,
she said, and people can often find
plants and seeds at those same
markets.
“It’s all part of the garden
industry,” she said.
Another addition this year is Birch
Creek, a new greenhouse business
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
Continued on page 14
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