Shirley Tang Rosewood Reads

Rosewood Reads 2025-2026

We are coming to the end of our second year of enjoying most of our books. Not all have appealed to us…can’t please them all. But it did open us to new genres and authors. We read from mysteries to historical fiction to AI and more. Our gatherings have been filled with fun, laughter and solving the world’s problems…lol!

Below are the books we read and hope one or two might pique your curiosity to enjoy over the summer months. These are all available at the Toronto Public Library.

Happy Reading and have a wonderful summer.

Shirley Tang Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group

Brandon’s Memorial Garden

A member of our Rosewood community passed in a tragic car accident last summer. In his memory, his parents have planted a special memorial garden as part of the Rosewood Pollinator Gardens.

The plants are all native pollinator friendly and include: big blue stem, grey headed cone flower, yellow prairie grass, little blue stem, showy golden rod, lance leaf coreopsis, iron weed, wild bergamot, pearly everlasting and blackeye susan. More plants and shrubs will continue to be added over the coming months.

Shirley Tang Events

Spring 2026 General Meeting

You are all invited to Rosewood’s Spring General Meeting taking place this week:

Thursday, June 4, 2026
at Calvary Logos Baptist Church
241 Alexmuir Blvd, Scarborough, ON M1V 2W6
(basement, use parking lot doors on the west side of the building)
If you require a wheelchair accessible entrance, please contact us at scarboroughrosewood@gmail.com to make arrangements.

Please join us for:

  • 6:30pm to 7:00pm – A meet & greet with Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow and Councillor Jamaal Myers
  • 7:00pm to 9:00pm – our regularly scheduled Rosewood Spring General Meeting which will include:
    • Rosewood Pollinator Garden update and container gardening demo
    • Toronto Fire Services Safety Presentation
    • Rosewood Updates
    • Light refreshments


Also, we will have the 2026-2027 membership cards available for Rosewood residents. Please bring $5 if you wish to collect your new membership today!

Shirley Tang Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group

grade 1 pollinator garden project

On Wednesday, the grade 1&2 class completed their pollinator garden collage! Using the textured paper they made a couple days earlier, together they created: – 9 distinct native, pollinator-friendly flowers- june grass- a red oak tree- and many, many bees, butterflies and birds to inhabit the garden.

To the final collage we also added the names of each plant, and dried flower stalks, seed pods and grasses from our gardens so the students could see and compare what the real plants looked like. Here’s the final artwork, displayed on the wall outside their classroom, right next to the front entrance of the school!

Shirley Tang Events

Upcoming Fall AGM and Dates

Rosewood residents are invited to our annual Fall General Meeting. This year a member of 42 Division will be coming to speak on frauds and scams and a little on cyber safety. Please join us to meet your neighbours and learn a little together.

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 7 to 9pm
Place: Calvary Logos Baptist Church (basement, please use west-side doors off the parking lot) at 241 Alexmuir Blvd.
We are grateful for the generosity of the church in allowing us to use their space again. If you require a wheelchair accessible entrance, please contact us ahead of the meeting so we can make arrangements for you.

Some other tentative dates to keep in your calendars:

February 21, 2026 – Rosewood partnered with the Alexmuir International Languages Program to bring back our neighbourhood Lunar New Year event
April 25, 2026 – Spring Community Clean Up
April 29, 2026 – Spring General Meeting

Shirley Tang Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group

June Planting in the Garden

It was a very hot day in June when a class of excited primary students were finally able to plant their seedlings (lovingly started in the winter! and cared for for many many months) into the ground at the Rosewood Pollinator Garden.

They planted sunflowers, swamp milk weed, Anise hysop, and butterfly milkweed. The students had sprouted these in the winter/spring this year. Thank you to our dedicated volunteers for your help!