{"id":14673,"date":"2016-07-06T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14673"},"modified":"2016-07-06T17:41:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:41:34","slug":"green-thumbs-kept-busy-in-lead-up-to-sundays-garden-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/green-thumbs-kept-busy-in-lead-up-to-sundays-garden-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Green thumbs kept busy in lead-up to Sunday\u2019s garden tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Briggs learned a lot at his first job in a greenhouse, earning \u201c35 cents an hour \u2013 top dollar!\u201d tending plants and bagging soil \u2013 and it instilled in him a love of getting his hands dirty that endures to this day.<\/p>\n

Come out this Sunday, July 10, and see the fruits of his labour as Mr. Briggs opens up his garden, along with seven other local gardeners, for Garden Tour 2016 hosted by the Aurora Garden and Horticultural Society.<\/p>\n

Featuring eight home gardens total, the owners of these \u201cprivate paradises\u201d will be on hand to answer all your gardening questions.<\/p>\n

Local artists will also be there, painting en plein air and showcasing their works.<\/p>\n

By Monday, Mr. Briggs cast his eye over his Copland Trail domain, which features its own greenhouse in which he grows his own annuals, confident most of the hard work was behind him getting the place camera ready for this weekend\u2019s ticketholders.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of extra work,\u201d he says with a chuckle. \u201cI grow my own annuals and I have to make sure I stake them all nice and straight to make them as nice as possible \u2013 and it\u2019s as ready as its going to be! It\u2019s nice to dig in the soil and create something. I\u2019m a photographer, so flowers give me a subject, as well as other things, and it is just fun to try different plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for this self-guided tour, which takes place rain or shine, are $15 and are on sale now at Caruso & Company, Hillcrest Nurseries (14230 Bathurst Street), and at Black Forest Gardens at 15445 Keele Street in King. Tickets will also be available at the Aurora Farmers\u2019 Market this Saturday, July 10.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit www.gardenaurora.com.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Briggs learned a lot at his first job in a greenhouse, earning \u201c35 cents an hour \u2013 top dollar!\u201d tending plants and bagging soil \u2013 and it instilled in him a love of getting his hands dirty that endures to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3OF","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-26 17:59:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-07-07-06.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}