Waterloo

Volunteers recently completed yet another school greening project in the Waterloo area.

At the risk of repetition, I just want to shout out again that Landscape Ontario members, friends and staff are inspirational and amazing.

Fun on the links help to support local charities.

This year Grobe’s Nursery and Garden Centre in Breslau not only looks back with pride on 50 years of success, but ahead to a promising future built on passion and good business sense.

Rob Tester of TNT Property Maintenance in Kitchener has set up a program to help local high school students learn about horticulture and environmental stewardship.

Mark Schwarz of Earthscape Ontario in Elmira wrote a blog about his company’s work at the Elmira District Secondary School, which was completed in two phases in 2010 to the spring of 2012.

Guests, dignitaries and customers helped members of the Olsen family celebrate 50 years of business for Guelph’s Royal City Nursery on May 5.

In the early 1990s, after Randy Adams of Adams landscape Supply in Kitchener moved into the topsoil business, he began to hear from his customers that he should become a member of Landscape Ontario.

Waterloo Chapter’s School Greening project has become so popular that this year, 10 submissions were received from public and separate school boards from Waterloo and Wellington County.

Waterloo Chapter continued its generosity with funds raised at the 2011 golf tournament.