St. Margarets Bay Gardening Club Gardeners Helping Gardeners We meet on the 3rd Wednesday each month, at 7:00 Sept - Nov/Jan - May in the meeting room at the Tantallon Library. Please note, this is a new time and a new venue! Guests are always welcome to attend our meetings! Site Plan Section 7 Crossroads Garden Return to Main Plan Highway #3 Instructions - click on a photo - it will enlarge - when done click again, it will return to spot on diagram THEN - to link to an information site, click on ? - when done close the page to return to the site plan ?

Seedy Saturday March 14, 2020 Updated list for the 14th Seedy Saturday Vendors Open at 11:30 - Lower Hall Speaker Schedule: Note that Nicole Hubley's Monarch Butterfly session is not available. Bee Keeping is upgraded from a Demo to a Presentation. Atlantic Master Gardeners (info) to be confirmed for the 14th Annapolis Seeds Bags for the Planet info on this vendor will be available on the 14th Body Honour Products Cochrane Family Farm Farmworks Garlic Mountain Farm Happy Caps Mushrooms Lee Valley Phillips Honey and Blueberry Farm Quackadoodle Farm Red Barn Market Secret Gardens by Crystal Seeds of Diversity (info table) Square Roots St. Margaret's Bay Gardening Club (info table) Stormcast Seaweed (Bear Cove Resources) Super J Gardening Services Tantallon Library Seed Library Taproot Farm Transition Bay St. Margaret's (info table) Twisted Brook Farm Whole Green Heart info on this vendor will be available on t he 14th Yonder Hill Farm Our first Seedy Saturday! Climate Victory Gardens Bob Cervelli, M.Sc. main sanctuary 12 noon to 1:30 Cannabis Homegrown 101 Av Singh, Ph.D. main sanctuary 2:30 to 4 Bee Keeping Philip's Honey and Bee Keeping upper hall 12 noon to 1:15 Sub Irrigation Planters, Container Gardening Caitlin Doucette, M.Sc. upper hall 1:30 to 2:45 Seed Saving in the Vegetable Garden Chris Sanford, M.Sc. upper hall 3 to 4 For biographical information on all SPEAKERS, go HERE Demos - Lower Hall A lot of the Seedy Saturday information is on the poster below, but if you CLICK on the poster (or on the MENU above - NOTE - on MOBILE DEVICES click on the small bars at the top of the page for the menu) you will arrive at a new page, where you'll find additional info such as the names of our VENDORS and also, a list of DEMOS. There is also a SCHEDULE of EVENTS so you can plan which SPEAKERS you want to hear. The bios of all the SPEAKERS are HERE Presentations will be in main Sanctuary and Upper Hall. Starting at 12 noon. Vendors and Demos will be in the Lower Hall. You can go to our SMBGC Facebook page HERE rescheduled for March 14, 2020 Please note there are a few changes to our Vendor List, Demo List and Speaker List. Most Vendors, Speakers and Demo people are available for the 14th. Please read through everything so you see where the changes are. One Demo has become a full presentation. Click firmly on the poster for more info on our Seedy Saturday page - note that this poster image is from the original date.

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"Our plan will involve transforming a litter-strewn and weed-infested eyesore into a low maintenance, soft-coloured, relaxing country flower garden that will be enjoyed by those living, working or simply passing through the area." Most people driving by the St. Margarets Bay Shopping Village at the junction of Highway No. 3 and Sonny's Road, note the beauty of the garden planted there. A project of the St. Margaret's Bay Gardening Club (SMBGC), it is interesting to guess how long the Crossroads Garden has been in existence. Although many shrubs and perennials are mature, others are still being planted to keep the garden refreshed and interesting. Milestone dates associated with the Garden are listed below. Further history, collected from many of the founding and existing members, follows. 1997 -start of planning - initial site preparation and plantings 1998 -site development planting 2010 -retaining wall built 2011 -new shrub bed created - educational project initiated A garden of this size cannot be created or maintained without many hands and minds. It is not possible to include names of all who have contributed to the Crossroads Garden since its inception, but all of the many club and community members must know how much their contributions are appreciated by those who enjoy the beauty of the garden. Planning for the garden started in 1997. Together Barb Matthews and Shirley McNeish, co-presidents of SMBGC at the time, were the driving force behind the establishment of the garden. Their vision and enthusiasm translated club discussions about fostering pride in community and bridging with other people and organizations to beautify areas in which we live. Members provided suggestions for community plantings at a regular monthly meeting and a committee was formed. Contact was made with Wayne Redmond who owned most of the property and with the Department of Transportation which owns all land from 33 feet of the centre line of the highway. Wayne and management of Home Hardware have been very supportive of the initiative from its inception to the present date. The province provided useful information on safety issues pertaining to highway landscaping. Jean Dickson agreed to coordinate the implementation of the garden. In October of 1997 a community Planting Work Party was organized to clean the debris and cut back and tidy the weeds in an area of approximately 176 feet bordering Highway 3. Initially, the bones of the garden consisted of the birch tree at the shopping centre entrance and some peony bushes. A small rock bed was fashioned around the main highway sign where 50 daffodils and some garden divisions, donated by a member and a friend of SMBGC, were planted. In 1998 Wayne Redmond financed the work of an excavator to prepare the area. His financial contribution also included the cost of delivery of garden soil. Bark mulch was donated by Bowater Mersey. A work party of SMBGC members and non-member volunteers worked diligently to further prepare the site and spread the soil and mulch. Members researched appropriate planting materials and generated a list of desired plants which was circulated to members and neighbouring businesses. Plants were selected and planted based on the following criteria: ease of maintenance, restful to the eye, pleasing from all directions, few simple lines, differing bloom time, clustering to create soft lines, and quick spread. > NEXT Return to Home Page History of the Crossroads Garden 1 Letter from Jean Dickson, SMBGC to Lion’s Club, 1998.