Published in The BANAR September 2001 Gardeners from Cornwall, Montreal and Toronto were among the over 200 visitors that toured the eleven lush gardens and had a delightful tea at the Bearbrook Court Retirement Residence. The exciting variety of gardens featured cooling water ponds, unique
Published in The BANAR June 2001 “Clover tends to stay green throughout drought and insects attacks which would damage grass.” Ed Lawrence, CBC Radio “Ontario Today” Gardening Expert and Chief of Greenhouse and Grounds Services, National Capital Commission, On the evening of May 17th several
Blackburn Hamlet’s Spring Clean-up 2001 was a great success! Blackburn residents scoured roadsides and ditches, forests and parks and the community gardens and streams. In all over 100 bags of litter were collected by more than 70 volunteers on the morning of April 28. In
Published in The BANAR June 2001 by Gail Kajiura If you’ve noticed a flurry of gardening activity in the Hamlet it’s not all just due to the yearly spring planting ritual. Thirteen of our gardeners are transplanting, dividing, weeding, edging and tidying to get their
Published in The BANAR April 2001 by Paul Graham A very successful outdoor ice rink season has come to an end. The volunteers of the local Parks and Recreation Board selected the City of Gloucester to make the ice and provide snow clearing. The City
Published in The BANAR February 2001 A third Blackburn sign has been installed at the eastern entrance of Blackburn Hamlet. The three signs were designed by the architectural firm of Corush, Sunderland and Wright. The firm also won an award this past year for the