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GARDEN CLIPPINGS: Winning annuals for containers

Queen Victoria must have been a wicked gardener.

Queen Victoria must have been a wicked gardener.

She chose the Monday preceding May 24 as a national holiday to celebrate the last day that frost might fall on Southwestern Ontario soil.

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Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901. She is credited with shaping Canadian Confederation and naming Ottawa as our capital.

In 1845 we officially honoured the Queen by choosing her birthday as a national holiday. But since Canadians prefer Mondays as holidays, we opt for the Monday preceding May 24 as Victoria Day.

Coincidentally, in our corner of Canada, we mark the holiday........

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