Welcome to the Cramahe Horticultural Society!
Thank you for visiting! Our Society and Membership is dedicated to Keeping Ontario Beautiful. We are associated with the Ontario Horticultural Association and District 4 of the OHA.
Also known as The Apple Country Garden Club, we meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month in the Rotary Room at the Keeler Centre, 80 Division St., Colborne. January to March our meetings are at 1:30pm; all others are at 7pm, unless otherwise noted (see below). No meetings July, August and December. We feature guest speakers or workshops during all of our meetings. See the schedule here **. We have some very exciting things coming up! You are welcome to come along as a guest at any time before deciding to join our Membership.
Taking stock of 2025:
In March we welcomed Jessica York and her Branch Ranch crew to present our first ever Willow Workshop! We created lovely garden stars. You can see us in action and the fruits of our labours on our Events and Speakers page. Everyone had such a great time that we promised to have Jess back again later in the year. (Psst… It’s happening October 21st!).
Despite the temperatures being a bit cooler than we would have liked, our Annual Plant Sale at the end of May in Victoria Square, Colborne was a great success! It’s true that gardeners don’t need perfect days to pursue their passion. We sold plants, garden decor of all kinds and a nice collection of planter/ceramic pots. We also signed up some new club members! Yay! To see some of the photos we took on sale day, visit our Projects page.
Also on our Projects page, photos from June as we assembled hanging baskets for use in Victoria Square, Colborne.
Our first ever Trivia Night at the Keeler Centre in Colborne June 17th was a great success! We had 32 registrants (more than we had hoped for) and had quite a few laughs over questions and answers of all sorts, some garden related, some not. We are planning another Trivia Night May 5, 2026. More info to come! Be sure to follow us on our Facebook page, “Cramahe Horticultural Society”, to always be up to date on what we have planned.
Through the summer and early fall we embarked on a Bio-diversity Bulbs Mixture fundraiser. Most packages (priced at a very reasonable 50 for $50) are now spoken for, but a few do remain. Each package contains a mix of 7 types of bulbs. Pictures are on our Facebook page. Contact ClairBreton@bell.net if you are interested in securing some. UPDATE: WE’RE SOLD OUT!
We’ve just had another fun Willow Workshop! We gathered together on October 21st at 7pm in the Keeler Centre, this time making these trays (sometimes called boat trays). Again, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, thanks to an instructive and relaxed atmosphere provided by Jessica York and her team from The Branch Ranch. For loads more pictures head over to our “events and speakers” page. There are so many reasons to join our club and get involved! (Thanks to Sherry Hamilton for the photo below. She and her husband Alex made these trays … and won the fern as a door prize!)
Whew! It was a great year and we look forward to everything that will come our way in 2026. We hope that you will be part of it.
