2021

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Margaret Laman

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Essex, Chatham-Kent and Lambton

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Fundraising and Sponsorship Committee, OHA Judging Committee

235 Lansdowne Ave.
Kingsville, Ontario N9Y 1S7
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(519) 733-2717

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Kathy Smyth

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(519) 682-3706

Box 1720,
8 Carlye Street
Tilbury, Ontario N0P 2L0
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Vicki Rees

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(519) 734-1410

603 Beneteau Dr.,
603 Beneteau Dr.,
Amherstburg, Ontario N9V 3R3
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23/10/2021

Virtual Plant Sales where held in Societies driveways where members picked up their purchases, or society delivered the product to their home or sold plants at the town markets. Other societies had Garden events at their Annual General Meetings. Elections and Financial Year End review were completed on line via Zoom. A few gardens were planted and maintained by a limited amount of members. A new location was sought for meetings and found one with no stairs which was on a main floor. It also had a large parking lot. One member had a 2 month plant sale in her back yard. A few members worked with a city parks department to plan a new pollinator garden with new native plants and had it completed by September. Plants were given away at times. Our group held a successful Juniors Gardeners program with multiple participating schools and various age groups. A group had a successful Front Yard Recognition program. Many Societies planted their summer planters and maintained their flower beds. 100 trees were planted in a park to replace dead and and dying trees.A society continued to maintain four Butterfly gardens at their park. One society planted 75 planters with yellow flowers for hope. Plants were raised from bulbs and seeds and dug up from members and town gardens to sell in perennial sales. We had a scarecrow contest for a community event. The start was at the Blue booth were we put new top soil. The excavation time and equipment to do so was donated by Talbot Trail Ltd. The garden was planted with new perennials and a few annuals to give a pop of colour. A special Thanks to Bev Grant who managed this garden from start to finish. All planters and hanging baskets designed and planted by Moody Flowers were planted and ready for placement at the beginning of May. All memorial fish totes designed and planted by Degoey Farms soon followed and lined both sides of the bridge Wheatley. The gardens at Coulter Park and the welcome signs were weeded and late in May, all were planted with perennials. Following a donation by Jeff Bowman, the Fire Hall garden received a much needed face lift. Sophie Jefferson tackled a garden located at the old Scout Hall. That garden was a absolute disaster, but she persevere and was able to bring it back to life. It took several hours of hard work. Thank You Sophie. The gardens, planters and fish totes looked awesome all year with the care and attention to them by Mr. Scott Makey. A very special thank you to Scott for everything he does on top of watering and fertilizing . We continued some of our meetings using Zoom or social distancing outside at board members back yards. We decided to start getting our memberships ready at the end of the year for the following year. This gave us an opportunity to sell memberships as Christmas stocking stuffers. We were also invited to set up a booth at a local craft show. This brought in a lot sales. Memberships sold at the craft show, were put into a draw for two large Christmas planter

All in house events were cancelled as well as Garden Tours, bus tours, annual banquet. Most meetings were hosted on Zoom. Several outdoor events were held following Covd19 restrictions wearing masks, using sanitizer on hands and keeping a distance of 6 m. apart. One society had 3 meetings in 2021. We had fewer guest speakers than in previous years as Zoom meetings are not nearly as engaging as live presentations. A member daily added interesting videos to our Face Book page to keep the members entertained and engaged. Some didn't try to do a lot of things as due to pandemic restrictions and lack of man power.

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