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| Cauleen Viscoff, Co-Chair, Peterborough Garden Show |
“A picture says a
thousand words” … then there was the Peterborough Garden Show!
The Peterborough Garden Show
is truly a “Magical Place” for gardeners, photographers, grandparents,
young families and children who can enjoy a fabulous time at one of “Ontario’s
best Garden Shows”!
“THE INSIDE SCOOP” interview
continues with Cauleen Viscoff, Co-Chair, Peterborough Garden Show …
Volunteers … The Key to
Success … Everyone Wins!
The Peterborough Garden Show
has an incredible 400 volunteer base that put forth an effort that adds to the
success of this Show! Ontario
Festivals Visited has attended the Show
on several occasions and we can attest to the visible positive effort the Volunteers
contribute. You experience this from the warm welcome at the front door, to
assistance throughout the Show, to
walking you out to your vehicle with your purchases.
The
Show draws on the Peterborough
Community Garden Network, which is made up of about 38 groups. Check it
out at http://growpeterborough.org/.
The Peterborough
Horticultural Society and
the Peterborough
and Northumberland Master Gardeners are “not-for-profit”
organizations of passionate volunteers who host the garden show to raise money
so they can gladly give it back to their community for: scholarships,
awards and bursaries to students studying horticultural related post-secondary studies,
supporting Master Gardeners in
Training along with grants to community gardens.
“For
the Love of Gardening” … a bit of history...
The
first Peterborough Garden Show with 70 display booths was in 2001 and
was presented as a one-time event to celebrate the 140th anniversary of
the Peterborough Horticultural Society. The response was so
enthusiastic that two years later, along with the Peterborough Master Gardeners,
they did it again.
2015
marks the Peterborough Garden Show’s 15th year with 8 well-known speakers
over two and a half incredible days. The Show hosts 150 vendors and
exhibitors who are landscapers, gardeners, growers, teachers and designers
along with many not-for-profit organizations; they have garden displays and
demonstrations; an ambitious interactive children’s garden; the latest in
garden tools, a fashion show and so much more..
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| Peterborough Garden Show "Family Fun" |
“BESIDES
FUND-RAISING” – Why else does the Peterborough Garden Show hold this fabulous Show:
The Peterborough
Garden Show likes:
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to
inspire you and celebrate the coming of Spring
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to
incite (or renew) your passion in gardening
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to
help you to learn and grow and ask questions of the hundreds of vendors,
speakers and volunteers
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to
share our hundreds of combined years of experience and knowledge
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to
introduce you to vendors and exhibitors you may not have met
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to
show you what is new and innovative in gardening
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to
encourage and teach you to grow food and flowers
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to
show you how to make the world more beautiful and more healthy through
gardening
If you wish to read about Ontario Festivals Visited
“adventures” to the Peterborough Garden Show, you can check our Link . Ontario Festivals Visited welcomes you to visit the Peterborough
Garden Show website to stay on track with all the details you will need
to make sure you don’t miss one of the “Best Shows” Spring has to offer!
Check it out the 
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