The gardens at Huntsville’s Civic Square have a new look this spring: tulips. Lots of them.
Last fall, 1000 red and white tulip bulbs were planted as part of a national 150th Celebration Garden in honour of Canada’s sesquicentennial. Huntsville was one of 150 communities across Canada to receive the bulbs from the Canadian Garden Council and Vesey’s Bulbs of PEI.
The bulbs were planted by Town staff, the Downtown Huntsville BIA merchants and students from Huntsville Public School.
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- The Tom Thomson sculpture by Brenda Wainman Goulet was surrounded by tulips in the spring of 2017, part of Canada 150 celebrations
The Huntsville garden, along with the other 149 gardens planted across the country, will be symbolically linked to a flagship 150th Celebration Garden Promenade, consisting of 25,000 tulips also donated by Vesey’s, adjacent to Niagara Falls. Our garden will also be featured on Canada’s Garden Route.
The initiative was spearheaded locally by the Downtown Huntsville BIA, and was supported nationally by the Canadian Garden Council, Vesey’s Bulbs, Canada Post, Canadian Nursery Landscape Association, Niagara Parks Commission, Garden Making magazine, Landscape Ontario, Ontario Garden Council, Baxter Travel Media, Enterprise Canada, Gardens BC, Québec Gardens’ Association and VIA Rail Canada.
Read more about the program on Doppler here.
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Very nice, indeed!!
isn’t this gorgeous?!