Spring Has Sprung!
The Nursery Garden opens on Thursday, May 1 at 9 a.m.
Nursery hours will be Tuesday and Thursday morning from 9 a.m. until noon.
Be an early customer for your free small pot of rosemary! (These plants are from long-time member Crenagh Elliott’s own flowering rosemary bush.) See you there!
Beautiful Bespoke Bouquets:
Order Yours Today! 
Celebrate your special someone for this Mother’s Day with a gorgeous, fresh-picked floral arrangement from the Friends’ gardens. Bouquets are $25 for a 10″ vase (30 stems), and $20 for one in a (vintage collectible) china tea cup (included).
Pre-order by May 5 at: foghflowers@gmail.com. Orders ready for pick up at the Bruce Pavilion, Thursday, May 8. Cash only.
Floral art cards also available for sale: 1/$5, 3/$12.
Read the new Cary Bulletin here!
Raising High the Roof Beams –
Well, In This Case, the Vegetable Beds
Mary (Vegetable Garden co-ordinator), and her hardworking volunteers, prepare 12 vegetable garden rows for planting on April 15.
The group raised the beds to make it easier to plant, weed, and harvest the many vegetable varieties they raise each year. Most of the produce is sold to Friends’ members, some is used in the tea room, approximately 10 per cent goes to charity throughout the season, and a basket is given to Her Honour each week.
Mary says, “These permanent frames widen the growing surface and will help increase our production of lettuce, salad greens, beets, spinach, carrots and radishes. And, by keeping the soil in the beds, we gain wider aisles for easier working access.” Spinach and spring salad mix should be ready by the end of May.
Have Hose … Will Cause Mayhem
Bryan (on left) and Brian keep volunteer safety in mind as they power wash the moss from the sidewalk and stairs at the Cottage taking care of a potential slipping hazard. Two truly Canadian “hosers” eh?
