Picnic like the 1900s to celebrate 110 years of Summerland Ornamental Gardens

Picnic like the 1900s to celebrate 110 years of Summerland Ornamental Gardens

A 1900s style picnic is coming to the Summerland. The Friends of Summerland Ornamental Gardens (FOG) are hosting a picnic for the community to celebrate 110 years of the incorporation of the garden. The picnic is being held on Sunday, July 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Formed in 1916 by two staff gardeners, Joseph Smith and Alfred Aveson, who “sketched out a plan for the gardens based on the English garden scene on a Wedgewood plate (or so the story…