April - Workshop
May - Garden Auction & Plant Sale
May - Annual Spring Buying Coach Tour
July - Members Gardens Tour
July - Gardens Only Coach Tour
August - Social & Potluck Supper
November - Workshop
December - Coach Tour
December - Christmas Potluck Dinner

• Bus tours
• Community work
• Plant sales
• Garden tours

In 2025, one of our members volunteered to run 2 workshops. WIth a barn full of old tobacco slats, the spring workshop was to make either a trellis or garden "star" from the slats. The fall workshop was to make an ornamental sleigh which participants could then decorate individually. Income generated was $520.00. The 17th Annual Garden Auction & Plant Sale continues to grow in both popularity and sales, with the net income $12,344.

To help celebrate TIllsonburg's 250th Anniversary, our Society planted the gardens of the downtown park. In the front garden, the number 250 was planted with red & white begonias offset with gold marigolds. In the back gardens, a variety of annuals were planted. The effect was "business at the front, party at the back". The Society nurtures and maintains a total of 5 public gardens and spaces as well as underwrites the cost of 12 very large planters that flank Broadway, our main street. The Garden Auction & Plant Sale continues to grow.

The Junior Gardener Program is offered by the THS to children in our community ages 6 to 14 years old. The theme this year was “A Sensory Garden”. We had 67 children register for the program. 60 children picked up their planting packages at Tillsonburg Garden Gate the first weekend of June. Each package included thyme, basil, Rainbow carrots, Sugar Snap peas, Detroit Dark Red beets, snapdragons, marigolds, nasturtium, Tithonia Torch, Crocosmia bulbs, Grape Hyacinth bulbs, daffodil bulbs, the last two for the fall which were not judged,tomato plants, and an information booklet.

The Junior Gardener’s independently planted, watered, weeded, and nurtured their gardens all summer. They were encouraged to add additional plants and were asked to make a “Sense-a-tional” accessory to enhance their gardens. Their creations were sensational. We have some very talented young people in our community.

17 children elected to have their gardens judged by five THS volunteers in August.

Stress to memberships that being involved with children's gardening activities is very fun and rewarding.

• Approved