North Bay Blooms

Front Yard Garden Nominations

Congratulations to Roy & Susan Houghton

Picture
Sharing their congratulations for this year's North Bay Blooms "Best Front Yard Garden of 2009", left to right: Chris Mayne - 2008 Chair North Bay Blooms, Carrie Trownsen - Cogeco, Kathryn Takacs - 2009 Chair North Bay Blooms, Susan Greig  Monica McLaren - North Bay Master Gardeners, Roy & Susan Houghton and Charlie Elliott - TD Canada Trust corporate sponsor for North Bay Blooms 2009.

First Place for 2009            232 Parsons Avenue              Roy & Sue Houghton

Picture
 Thank you to Burrow's Country Garden Center for sponsoring this year's first place award of a $200  gift certificate.

Second Place      117 Sable Crescent         Ellen Miller & family

Picture
Jim Laporte of Laporte's Garden Center was kind enough to help again this year and sponsor our second place winners with a $200 gift certificate.

This Year's Top Ten Nominations Are In

Picture
Top ten front yard garden nominations for 2009, in no particular order,  
Joan Lane     668 Fisher Street
Mrs Kazlauskas 972 Maher Street
Mary & Jim Randle   209 Reginald Road
Ellen Miller       117 Sable Crescent
Grazyna Hurley    31 Martin Street
Roy & Sue Houghton    232 Parsons Street
Gillian & Steve Sopinka   693 Copeland Street
Marianne Buck  709 McIntyre Street West
Mrs Curtis    808 McLaren Street
Rob & Diane Campsall   21 Beaver Crescent

      Final top four winners will be selected by the North Bay Master Gardenesr and announced Monday, July 28. 

      Thank you to everyone for participating and helping with nominations. North Bay is fortunate to have so many beautiful front yard gardens for everyone to enjoy and help make our commuity look so colourful and attractive. 

808  McLaren Street                    Mrs Curtis

Picture
 

Thank you to the North Bay Horticultural Society Judges

Picture
The North Bay Horticultural Society will shortly be judging almost 100 front yard gardens around North Bay to select our top ten finalists.  In this photo, left to right, Maureen Ranger, Judi Brewer, Daphne Andrews, Geri Openshaw, Helen Bannerman

 

 

 

 



North Bay Horticultural Society Teams :

Helen Tripp & Pat Madill

Geri Openshaw & Judi Brewer

Maureen Ranger & Cathy Hogan

Betty Foy & Ruth Wright

Daphne Andrews and & Helen Bannerman
 

Thank you to all of the judges for their help and we look forward to seeing more beautiful gardens around town this summer.

Thank you Canada Post

 Ken Treganza and the Canada Post staff (pictured above) kicked off this summer's Front Yard Garden competition on June 11.

Nominations are made primarily by our community letter carriers but individuals are also welcome to nominate  front yard gardens that help make North Bay a beautiful place to live.  To submit a garden location, please see the Contact Us tab.  Nominations closed June 30th.

Once nominations are in (and last year we had 118 nominations), the North Bay Horticultural Society, led by Geri Openshaw, selected the ten best gardens. The North Bay Master Gardeners then selected the top four.

Criteria for judging will be balance, colour, tidiness and innovation.  A word to the keen - no plastic flowers and make sure you have taken down the Christmas lights ( or anything else that detracts from the gardens attractiveness).   

Competition winners will receive gift certifcates from Laporte's Garden Centre, Burrows Country Store and Garden Center and L'Ami's Garden Center.

Good luck to eveyone, we expect the competition this year will again be rootless!