Wild Growth

Some of you may know I was away for a few weeks.  I've just returned and am amazed at the wild growth of our community garden and the level of activity in the playground.
We have a lot planned for this season so please stay tuned.  Email me at roseneath@hotmail.ca for detailed updates.

Upcoming events:
July 21-25, 4-6 p.m. Mosaic workshops for teens at Oakwood Village Library
July 28-Aug 1, 4-6 p.m. Mosaic workshops for teens at Oakwood Village Library
August 6, 5-8 p.m. Mosaic pop up workshop in the park, all ages
August 9, 1-4 p.m. Mosaic pop up workshop in the park, all ages
August 16, 1-4 p.m. Mosaic pop up workshop in the park, all ages

Art Workshops for Teens

Do you know a student who loves to be creative?  Are you looking for engaging activities for your teens who are out of school for the summer? 
We have just the thing:
AFCY will be holding free workshops for teens at Oakwood Village Library in July.  Participants will be directly involved in the creation of Roseneath Park's mosaic mural. 
Come out, get creative, and get involved!

Things are Growing...

What a great turn out to our annual planting night yesterday!

We accomplished a lot!  You can see a city of Toronto tent in the background where Erin Glover from AFCY was surveying folks about their ideas for the mosaic.  The Roseneath gardeners were busy weeding, planting, watering and mulching.  Thanks to the city Parks department, the park grass was reseeded, the mulch delivered, and shrubs pulled out giving us two new flower beds on the sides of the path. 
There's still plenty of room, so if you have extra plants that are not invasive, please share!

A summer watering schedule will be posted soon.  We are looking for volunteers to water the park through the summer.  Email roseneath@hotmail.ca if you can commit to a week or two.

Calling all Gardeners, Neighbours and Artists

Monday May 26, 6:30 p.m at Roseneath Park...
we'll be gathering for our annual planting meet up (annuals and perennials are both welcome!).
Bring your trimmings, gloves and spades to the park to garden with your neighbours and help make Roseneath a better park.  We are looking for ground cover plants, small and medium sized perennials especially.  Native, low maintenance plants are ideal. 

City staff will be at the park on Monday to hear your input.  Here's another chance to tell them what you want.  
Arts for Children and Youth needs your ideas for the mosaic mural project that is slated to be installed this summer.  Do you have a great theme idea for the mosaic?  Tell us!

Finally, a generous neighbour has left some infant toys at the park for younger park patrons to enjoy.  The toys have been labelled and we hope they will remain at the park through the season. 

There's sunshine in the forecast; we hope to see you on Monday!

And just like that...IT'S SPRING!

Hello friends,

The park looked fantastic after our annual community clean up and I suspect we got a little anonymous help from another group who did a "pre-clean up" before the Friends of Roseneath Park came out on that Saturday morning.  What a pleasant surprise!
With the warmer weather, the park is seeing more use, so I'd like to extend a thank you to those who are lending a hand to keep the park free of litter on an ongoing basis. 

There is a lot of exciting news to share!  A meeting has been set to gather your creative ideas for the mural project headed by Arts for Children and Youth.  Please make an effort to attend - the information is in the flyer below:

Using your ideas collected at this meeting, AFCY will be putting together a draft design for the mural and setting up tile making workshops in a local school and library and at the park.  These workshops will be free and open to local children and youth.  Please look for postings about these upcoming workshops in the summer!

Also, with Victoria Day gardening weekend coming up, remember to save your split perennials for the park.  Needless to say, not all our plants survived the winter and we have some bald spots to fill in the park flower beds.  We'll be doing our spring planting soon.  Stay tuned!

The Big Thaw

The sun is shining, and although it's still chilly outside, we can expect to see the daffodils and crocuses popping up at Roseneath Park soon.  (Look for them on the west slope and the south strip behind the playground!)

Seating in the sun... we'll be seeing green soon.

Ash tree stump - it was a hard winter!

And that means it's the time of year to start planning clean ups and planting.  Friends of Roseneath Park will once again participate in the annual city wide Community Clean Up Day which will take place on Saturday April 26, at 10:30 a.m.   Come out with the whole family - and don't forget your gloves for the dirty work.

Finally, kudos to the one fantastic, anonymous community member who did a stellar job cleaning up the park as soon as the ice thawed.  Thank you for making it a better place for all park users!  We all know how gross parks can be after months of neglect and this mystery person took it upon themselves to clean up Roseneath pronto and make it a pleasant and clean place to enjoy the first days of spring. 

Now, lets get outside and enjoy our patch of the great outdoors that is Roseneath Park after the hardest winter in years!

Power Up Roseneath

Our next goal is to get an electrical outlet installed at the park by Toronto Hydro so we can host neighbourhood movie nights and have music at park events. 
Please sign the petition to let Toronto Hydro know how many people would benefit from this initiative.  Cesar Palacio will present the petition to Toronto Hydro reps in late February, so don't delay. 

Share this with your neighbours and urge them to sign too! 
http://www.petitions24.com/power_up_roseneath