Stayner Garden Club marks 100 years of growing

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In celebration of its 100th anniversary the Stayner Garden Club has purchased a new tulip themed fountainhead for Fountain Park, which is now fully operational just in time for Clearview Tulip Days.

The other fountainhead was starting to deteriorate so members thought it appropriate to commemorate the anniversary of the club, formally known as the Stayner Horticultural Society, and were pleased to find one with a tulip, appropriate for the park’s main event.

Clearview Tulip Days marks the tulip bloom, in celebration of the commemorative tulips planted since 2016 and including the Liberation75 Tulips planted in 2020 for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands.

This year, the Stayner Garden Club is adding to the festivities by serving cake and welcoming four lifetime members of the club. In the border gardens members have also planted two new rosebushes, the red rose being the club’s flower.

The club has 63 active members who volunteer their time to weed and maintain the gardens at Fountain Park, along with the beds at town hall, the gazebo at Station Park, the main entrances to Stayner, the ministerial garden, among others, and have two plots at the EcoPark community garden.

To mark the club’s milestone, it is hosting bus trips in addition to their regular activities. Members will be at Music, Market and Park It offering nature themed activities for youth on Thursday evenings. They have a plant sale coming up on June 3, and the first of two flower shows is on May 15. The meeting is held at Stayner United Church and begins at 7 p.m., with Linda Peacock speaking on the topic of a rain garden at 7:30 p.m.

Membership costs $10. To learn more visit the Stayner Garden Club’s Facebook group or email staynergardenclub19@gmail.com.

Clearview Tulip Days is on Thursday, May 18 with celebrations including a community barbecue and live music from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Fountain

Park, located on the corner of Oak St. and Highway 26. Admission is free. A rain date has been set for Friday, May 19.

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