The Citizen, 2016-05-05, Page 17THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2016. PAGE 17.
Auburn garden tour to focus on more local sites
Show and tell
The Auburn Garden Tour will be focusing on gardens in
Auburn and Blyth this year and looking at fewer gardens so
more time can be spent at each garden. Two of the three
gardens that are scheduled are part of the Discover the
Gardens of Huron Perth which, in previous years, were
marked by signs like the one shown above. (File photo)
The Auburn Horticultural Society
is hosting a garden tour on July 18
and the group is hoping some
changes will make the event a little
more memorable.
Organizer Karen Redmond
explained the tour starts at 6 p.m.
and anyone can attend free of
charge.
"We meet at the Auburn Hall and
car-pool from there," she said. "This
year we have three gardens we're
going to and we've a couple chosen
gardens that are on the Discover the
Gardens of Huron Perth tour."
"We are going to Rainstone Farm,
then to Cindy MacDonald's garden
and finishing up at Jane Smyth's
Garden, Hideaway Haven, in Blyth."
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Redmond explained the tour is
"quite local" compared to previous
years.
"Last year we toured into
Bluewater and Bayfield," she said.
"Every year since we discovered the
garden tour, we put out the pamphlet
on my dining room table for the
executive to choose our locations
and we've pretty much covered all
the gardens in it that are further
away, so this year we're looking
closer to home."
Redmond also explained the group
limited the number of gardens they
are visiting this year as a way of
making sure the individual gardens
are given the attention they deserve.
"We've narrowed down the
gardens we visit so we can spend
enough time at each garden to
understand what's going on there,"
she said. "Sometimes we get a little
overly energetic and people think we
can drive garden to garden very fast
but that doesn't give us time to enjoy
what's there."
Rainstone Farm is one of the
gardens on the Discover the Gardens
of Huron Perth Tour and features
what they call "the usual suspects"
as far as fragrant gardens are
concerned.
Smyth's Hideaway Haven is a
garden Redmond said she was
particularly interested in visiting,
especially given the wild weather
that Huron County has been facing
over the past several years.
"Jane has a lot of drought -tolerant
perennials," she said. "That's
something, as gardeners, that we are
always looking for."
She said she is very much looking
forward to the event and looking
forward to seeing how the changes
will affect it.
"We're just going to enjoy some
good gardens," she said. "We will
take away a lot of ideas."
Redmond said that each gardener
squares off against Mother Nature to
try and make the garden look how
they want it, despite the challenges.
"Each one of us challenges
Mother Nature to make our own
little niche in the gardening
community," she said. "We learn
something new from each site."
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Redmond at 519-526-7633.
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