Sunday, May 6 is High Park Day!

This notice is provided by the Volunteers of High Park who invite you to come celebrate our natural treasure.

Events include:

* 10.00 am Planting shrubs and trees
* Prescribed Burn tour (repeated later in the week)
* 12 noon to 4 pm VSP Native Plant sale
* Colborne Lodge tour
* Colborne Lodge gardens

Cherry Tree Alert!

The flower buds on the Japanese cherry trees are just about to open – should be in full bloom for High Park Day.

Spring Planting in High Park

Sunday, May 6, 10:00 am
Parkside Drive and Howard Park Av. at the Streetcar Loop

Come help plant shrubs and trees from 10 am to 12:30 pm, rain or shine on Sunday, May 6, 2007. We’ll be planting on just west of the intersection of Parkside Drive and Howard Park Avenue where the street car enters the Park and loops back. This is two lights south of Bloor. We’ll provide shovels and gloves for you to use. There is no need to register. All that you have to do is show up.

For more information about this planting, contact Ken Sharratt at (416) 762-3453 or ksharratt@look.ca.

Prescribed Burn Site Tours

Join the staff of the High Park Nature Centre on a tour of 3 recently burned plots of land in the park’s rare black oak savannah ecosystem. Learn about the results of 10 years of burns in High Park and why fire is known as the “guardian of the savannah”. Discover the special adaptations that native savannah plants have for surviving a fire, how fire affects invasive plants in the park and the potential impacts of a burn on wildlife in the park.

Sunday, May 6 at 10:00am (also on Thursday, May 10 at 6:45pm)

Meet at the benches across the road from the south side of the Grenadier Café in High Park.

Cost: $2.00 per person

VSP Annual Native Plant Sale

Purchase plants native to the High Park area at the popular VSP spring plant sale. Plants are grown by participants in the Volunteer Stewardship Program in cooperation with the High Park Greenhouse. Check www.highpark.org for a list of plants available.

Sunday, May 6, 12 noon to 4 pm, near Colborne Lodge (south end of the park near the Queensway entrance)

High Park Day Tours at Colborne Lodge

Enjoy the splendour of the beautiful spring bulbs in the Colborne Lodge heritage gardens.

Tour historic Colborne Lodge for only $2 per person.

Sunday, May 6, 12 noon to 4 pm, south end of High Park

Volunteer Opportunities

If you are interested in the following volunteer opportunities:
- planning the Visitor Centre project
- member-at-large nomination for June 20 Annual General Meeting
- coordinator of high school volunteer program

Please contact volunteer@highpark.org.

For more information, call 416-392-6916