Bible Fun Camp goes next week at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church
Nobleton Notes
By Angie Maccarone (905) 859-5174 Nobleton United Church

The title of the July 8 sermon will be, When life is enriched by caring, along with readings from Galatians and Luke. Please join us at 11:15 a.m., as our doors are always open and welcoming.

Bible Fun Camp at St. Paul's Church Our theme for this year's Bible Fun Camp is Son Force Kids. It will be held next week (July 9 to 13), from 9:30 to 11:30 every morning. This fun-filled program, with music, crafts, Bible stories, snacks and games, is ideal for children aged four to 12 years.

To register your child(ren) and their friends, please call the church office at (905) 859-0843. There is no cost for this program.

Join us this Sunday (July 8) at 9:45 a.m. as we welcome Rev. Alyson McLeod to the pulpit. Nursery care (for children five years and younger) is provided during the service and Sunday school (for adults only) follows the service at 11 a.m.

For further information about any of our activities, please contact the church office at (905) 859-0843.

Horticulture

"The show must go on," and so it did, in spite of the extremely hot and humid weather.

It looked for a while like the turnout would be poor, as by 7:45 only a few people had showed up, but by 8 p.m. there was almost a full house for the last meeting and show of the Nobleton - King City Horticultural Society.

All were treated to a colourful flower show with 68 entries by six exhibitors, and a slide presentation and talk on the growing of delphiniums by Hazel and Joe Cook, who raise them on several acres near their Blossom Hill Nursery, in shades of blue, mauve, purple, pink and white.

Kathy Ball (Nobleton) once again earned the most points in show with a staggering 56. Nancy Hopkinson (Nobleton) came second with 55 points and Barb Downey (Castlederg) was third with 34 points. Hopkinson's patriotic arrangement, With Glowing Hearts, won best decorative in show and Downey's red rose, selected for fragrance, won best cultural in show.

Do remember to circle July 15 on your calendar as this is the date of the Nobleton - King City Horticultural Society's annual Garden Tour. It's a rare chance to see several beautiful, but very different local private gardens. Tickets, at $10 per person, are available at Primrose Garden Centre and Nobleton Pharmasave, both on Highway 27 north of the second set of traffic lights in Nobleton, and at Crawford Wells on Keele Street at King Road in King City and Black Forest Garden Centre on Keele, just south of Lloydtown - Aurora Road.

If you first see the container and then notice the plants in it, the container needs more flowers, including taller ones and those that cascade over the side. The flowers should catch the eye first not the container.

A nearby house has a front garden bed covered in a red mulch and planted with red geraniums (perlargoniums). You see the mulch first and then the green foliage, but the blooms blend into the red soil cover. Another house nearby has some green shrubs in areas of well maintained soil, that have white geraniums here and there. The soil is the first thing to catch the eye and then the shrubs, but the flowers are hardly noticed. What a shame when the flowers should be the highlight of each garden. Containers/mulch/soil should compliment the flowers, not over shadow them.