Join us on Saturday July 11th for a day of fun, discovery and learning as we tour several large, private country estates, a small town garden, a thriving community farm and Main Street Schomberg.
THE ADVENTURE
A luxury coach bus will transport about 56 participants to 3 large, private garden estates, a 6.5 acre community farm, a small town garden and Main Street Schomberg - check below for full details for each stop.
PRICING
****ALERT: EARLY BIRD SPECIAL IS ON UNTIL MAY 30th****
Our early bird special offers a discount on the price of tickets purchased before May 30th 6pm:
$85 per EHS Member and $105 per Guest/non EHS member
For all tickets purchased after May 30th, ticket pricing will be:
$100 for EHS Member; $120 for guest/non-member
TICKET PRICE INCLUDES:
Motor coach transportation, visit to all venues as outlined below, lunch at the Schomberg Pub and Patio, all taxes and the bus driver’s and restaurant waiting staff tips.
TOUR DETAILS:
Note: Itinerary details with Photos are available on the Members-Only section of website: Insider Tips
If you have a question, please email Miriam Freibauer at rescueandtransform@gmail.com
Stop 1: King’s View Country Estate
The first country estate on our tour is aptly named “A King’s View”.
In addition to foundation gardens around the house, gazebo and garden shed, are gardens on either side of the driveway welcoming visitors to a property replete with a diversity of trees from a blazingly red maple in the fall, to a horse chestnut tree showing hundreds of pink blooms in the spring, healthy blue spruce and a fabulous Japanese maple.
In the same gardens are honeysuckle, penstemon and ninebark. Along the walkway one can also find a Korean Fir, Abies koreana ‘Blue Emperor’. The doomed ash trees are being replaced with eastern redbuds, spruce trees from LEAF, a wannabe Kentucky coffee tree, a perfectly formed classic linden and a couple of tulip trees.
Each separate garden offers a beautiful selection of perennials along with planters on the deck that are artistically arranged and planted with colourful annuals, and also vegetable planters just outside the kitchen.
Stop 2: Schomberg Community Farm
This stop takes us to the Schomberg Community Farm where Donna Parish, farm manager and master gardener, will be our guide. On 6.5 beautiful acres, owned by King Township, there are 49 active plots rented to locals in the community, an orchard, many native plantings, a beautiful large butterfly garden, bee hives, compost bins, leaf mulching containers, many fruit shrubs, herb garden, a bean pole tent, picnic tables, bird and bee boxes and a seed library.
There is a large community section, where produce is grown to sell and donate.
A wildflower meadow, a large pollinator hotel and a native garden were added to replace fencing and more native shrub plantings in the multiple no-mow zones are ongoing projects. The Community Farm committee offers several workshop events per year, to educate on all things related to nature, and growing food.
Stop 3: Lunch and Shopping in Schomberg Main Street
Main street Schomberg beckons us on this stop to enjoy lunch at the 1880 Heritage Schomberg Pub & Patio, a tour of the Grackle café town garden and shopping at a few locale stores including De Rose and HomeBlondie.
Stop 4: Private Country Estate with endless vistas
This spectacular Canadian Wildlife Habitat Accredited Property is maintained by the owner, a master gardener. No pesticides or herbicide use, nesting boxes, bird feeders, water source, food and habitat all year round. Being "in symbiosis with mother nature" was the mandate for the landscape designer, Randy Tumber. The berms mimic the rolling hills of King Township while the vistas are endless.
Noteworthy trees & plants:
At the gates: Crimson King maple, blue spruce, spirea ‘gold flame, rosa rugosa, hostas and Stella d’Oro daylilies.
Along drive way: Sugar maples & blazing star maples. Norway spruce and larch trees in forest (grown as seedlings) English oak, red oak, mountainash.
Around parking lot: Blue spruce, service berry, native dogwoods, spiraeas, peonies, iris, heuchera ‘Lime ricky’, mock orange, gingko, mountain ash, metasequoia ‘Gold rush’, Canadian red bud, stephanandra, cranberry cotoneaster, hellebores ‘wedding series’, hostas, peonies, echinacea.
Walkway: Pagoda dogwood, native birch, 10 peony varieties, hostas, Serbian spruce, heucheras, cotoneaster, shasta daisies, irises, climbing hydrangea, hellebores, carpet roses, Japanese Hakone grass, coleus grown from cuttings.
Around pool and cabana: White pine, European Linden, red & Norway maples, columnar oak, native birches, variegated beech, hydrangea standard, hostas, peonies, astilbe, monks hood, hellebores, clematis, liatris.
Back steps: Cotoneaster, berry batch, heirloom tomatoes grown from seed, blue star juniper, Annabelle hydrangeas, Pagoda dogwood, red beech, vegetable & herb patch. Check out potting bench, raised garden beds, currents at forest edge (14 berry varieties), Fairy garden & enchanted woodland’s garden behind pool cabana. Raised garden beds, heirloom tomatoes and vegetables grown from seed, 14 different berry varieties. Pollinator trails.
Stop 5: Private Country Estate: “Carrying Places”
According to the home owner, her best features in her garden are the water ponds, both the big and small one. Magnificent art embellishes the gorgeous, terraced gardens, among them a bronze harp by Canadian artist, Brett Davies.
A pair of dolphins keep guard at the edge of the large pond with waterfall. The rhododen- drons, magnolias, azaleas and the mahonia (Oregon grape) are stunning in the spring.
The home owner’s favourite area is the little forest, featuring flowering dogwood, Japanese podophyllum (Mayapple family), hellebores, rhododendrons, Seven-Sons Tree and a Canadian red bud. This area seems to have its own micro-climate.
The berm in the front is planted with barberries, hawthorn, ferns, rhodgersia. Towering spruce trees lead into the multi terraced gardens.
Other noteworthy plants in the multi terraces are: roses, variegated weigelia, Japanese Hakone grass, ninebark, black laced elder, heuchera, various hosta varieties, Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’, irises, peonies, lupins, liatris, clematis, climbing hydrangea, Aralia cordata (Japanese Spikenard)and an abundance of nautical plants in the ponds. ‘Nymphaeaceae’ – ‘water lilies are stunning in the ponds, much to the delight of the resident frogs.
In the back of the property is the ‘hospital section’ that’s were plants get destined, if they are under performing or need some extra care. In the dog pen is a Tripetula Magnolia and a climbing hydrangea. Fairie gardens are abundant in the gardens, giving some of the areas a whimsical feeling.
Join us on Saturday July 11th for a day of fun, discovery and learning as we tour several large, private country estates, a small town garden, a thriving community farm and Main Street Schomberg.
THE ADVENTURE
A luxury coach bus will transport about 56 participants to 3 large, private garden estates, a 6.5 acre community farm, a small town garden and Main Street Schomberg - check below for full details for each stop.
PRICING
****ALERT: EARLY BIRD SPECIAL IS ON UNTIL MAY 30th****
Our early bird special offers a discount on the price of tickets purchased before May 30th 6pm:
$85 per EHS Member and $105 per Guest/non EHS member
For all tickets purchased after May 30th, ticket pricing will be:
$100 for EHS Member; $120 for guest/non-member
TICKET PRICE INCLUDES:
Motor coach transportation, visit to all venues as outlined below, lunch at the Schomberg Pub and Patio, all taxes and the bus driver’s and restaurant waiting staff tips.
TOUR DETAILS:
Note: Itinerary details with Photos are available on the Members-Only section of website: Insider Tips
If you have a question, please email Miriam Freibauer at rescueandtransform@gmail.com
Stop 1: King’s View Country Estate
The first country estate on our tour is aptly named “A King’s View”.
In addition to foundation gardens around the house, gazebo and garden shed, are gardens on either side of the driveway welcoming visitors to a property replete with a diversity of trees from a blazingly red maple in the fall, to a horse chestnut tree showing hundreds of pink blooms in the spring, healthy blue spruce and a fabulous Japanese maple.
In the same gardens are honeysuckle, penstemon and ninebark. Along the walkway one can also find a Korean Fir, Abies koreana ‘Blue Emperor’. The doomed ash trees are being replaced with eastern redbuds, spruce trees from LEAF, a wannabe Kentucky coffee tree, a perfectly formed classic linden and a couple of tulip trees.
Each separate garden offers a beautiful selection of perennials along with planters on the deck that are artistically arranged and planted with colourful annuals, and also vegetable planters just outside the kitchen.
Stop 2: Schomberg Community Farm
This stop takes us to the Schomberg Community Farm where Donna Parish, farm manager and master gardener, will be our guide. On 6.5 beautiful acres, owned by King Township, there are 49 active plots rented to locals in the community, an orchard, many native plantings, a beautiful large butterfly garden, bee hives, compost bins, leaf mulching containers, many fruit shrubs, herb garden, a bean pole tent, picnic tables, bird and bee boxes and a seed library.
There is a large community section, where produce is grown to sell and donate.
A wildflower meadow, a large pollinator hotel and a native garden were added to replace fencing and more native shrub plantings in the multiple no-mow zones are ongoing projects. The Community Farm committee offers several workshop events per year, to educate on all things related to nature, and growing food.
Stop 3: Lunch and Shopping in Schomberg Main Street
Main street Schomberg beckons us on this stop to enjoy lunch at the 1880 Heritage Schomberg Pub & Patio, a tour of the Grackle café town garden and shopping at a few locale stores including De Rose and HomeBlondie.
Stop 4: Private Country Estate with endless vistas
This spectacular Canadian Wildlife Habitat Accredited Property is maintained by the owner, a master gardener. No pesticides or herbicide use, nesting boxes, bird feeders, water source, food and habitat all year round. Being "in symbiosis with mother nature" was the mandate for the landscape designer, Randy Tumber. The berms mimic the rolling hills of King Township while the vistas are endless.
Noteworthy trees & plants:
At the gates: Crimson King maple, blue spruce, spirea ‘gold flame, rosa rugosa, hostas and Stella d’Oro daylilies.
Along drive way: Sugar maples & blazing star maples. Norway spruce and larch trees in forest (grown as seedlings) English oak, red oak, mountainash.
Around parking lot: Blue spruce, service berry, native dogwoods, spiraeas, peonies, iris, heuchera ‘Lime ricky’, mock orange, gingko, mountain ash, metasequoia ‘Gold rush’, Canadian red bud, stephanandra, cranberry cotoneaster, hellebores ‘wedding series’, hostas, peonies, echinacea.
Walkway: Pagoda dogwood, native birch, 10 peony varieties, hostas, Serbian spruce, heucheras, cotoneaster, shasta daisies, irises, climbing hydrangea, hellebores, carpet roses, Japanese Hakone grass, coleus grown from cuttings.
Around pool and cabana: White pine, European Linden, red & Norway maples, columnar oak, native birches, variegated beech, hydrangea standard, hostas, peonies, astilbe, monks hood, hellebores, clematis, liatris.
Back steps: Cotoneaster, berry batch, heirloom tomatoes grown from seed, blue star juniper, Annabelle hydrangeas, Pagoda dogwood, red beech, vegetable & herb patch. Check out potting bench, raised garden beds, currents at forest edge (14 berry varieties), Fairy garden & enchanted woodland’s garden behind pool cabana. Raised garden beds, heirloom tomatoes and vegetables grown from seed, 14 different berry varieties. Pollinator trails.
Stop 5: Private Country Estate: “Carrying Places”
According to the home owner, her best features in her garden are the water ponds, both the big and small one. Magnificent art embellishes the gorgeous, terraced gardens, among them a bronze harp by Canadian artist, Brett Davies.
A pair of dolphins keep guard at the edge of the large pond with waterfall. The rhododen- drons, magnolias, azaleas and the mahonia (Oregon grape) are stunning in the spring.
The home owner’s favourite area is the little forest, featuring flowering dogwood, Japanese podophyllum (Mayapple family), hellebores, rhododendrons, Seven-Sons Tree and a Canadian red bud. This area seems to have its own micro-climate.
The berm in the front is planted with barberries, hawthorn, ferns, rhodgersia. Towering spruce trees lead into the multi terraced gardens.
Other noteworthy plants in the multi terraces are: roses, variegated weigelia, Japanese Hakone grass, ninebark, black laced elder, heuchera, various hosta varieties, Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’, irises, peonies, lupins, liatris, clematis, climbing hydrangea, Aralia cordata (Japanese Spikenard)and an abundance of nautical plants in the ponds. ‘Nymphaeaceae’ – ‘water lilies are stunning in the ponds, much to the delight of the resident frogs.
In the back of the property is the ‘hospital section’ that’s were plants get destined, if they are under performing or need some extra care. In the dog pen is a Tripetula Magnolia and a climbing hydrangea. Fairie gardens are abundant in the gardens, giving some of the areas a whimsical feeling.
