About GardeningCalendar.ca

Less searching.
More growing.

Gardening is rewarding, but finding the right advice, plants, places and events can feel like another job. GardeningCalendar brings the pieces together so you can spend less time searching and more time enjoying your garden.

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Why we exist

Gardening information is everywhere. Useful answers are harder to find.

For Canadian gardeners, answers are often scattered across event calendars, garden organizations, plant resources, newsletters and websites. Much of the advice online was not written for Canadian seasons or growing conditions.

GardeningCalendar brings those pieces together—and makes them more useful for the place you garden.

Save timeStart in one place instead of searching many sites.
Miss lessFind timely events and tasks before the moment passes.
Choose confidentlyUse guidance shaped by your actual growing conditions.
Stay connectedDiscover local gardens, organizations and expertise.

One place for the gardening journey

Discover → Visit → Learn → Grow

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Discover

Save time and miss less

See talks, workshops, plant sales, tours and other events from many organizations in one place. You spend less time clicking through separate calendars and are far less likely to miss something worthwhile.

Discover events →
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Visit

Find inspiration worth the trip

Explore botanical gardens, public gardens and arboretums near home or while travelling. See mature plants and design ideas in real settings, and arrive knowing why a garden is worth your time.

Find gardens →
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Learn

Know what matters now

Find practical guidance in the context of your region, hardiness zone and season. That means less generic information to sort through, fewer avoidable mistakes and more confidence in what to do next.

Visit the library →
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Grow

Choose for your garden

Move from “I like this plant” to “Will it work here?” Find plants suited to your hardiness, light, soil and moisture so you can avoid costly disappointments and grow with greater confidence.

Find a plant →

Built for where you garden

Canada is not one gardening zone.

A gardener in Victoria, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Halifax may be doing very different things on the same day.

Gardening advice becomes more valuable as it gets closer to your place, season and conditions. GardeningCalendar uses what it knows about where you grow to help distinguish between what may be useful someday and what matters in your garden now.

  • Advice interpreted through your hardiness zone
  • Plants matched to light, soil and moisture
  • Seasonal context relevant to your region
  • Greater confidence before you plant or prune

Connecting the gardening community

Good gardening knowledge grows through connection.

It comes from gardeners, horticultural societies, botanical gardens, researchers, plant organizations, community groups, garden writers and generations of practical experience.

GardeningCalendar gives those worlds a place to meet. You gain easier access to trusted regional experience, new ideas and people who share your interests. Organizations gain a wider audience for their knowledge, events and work.

An event introduces a garden. A garden introduces a plant. An article helps you grow it. Your garden keeps you learning.

Gardening delivered to you

You should not have to remember to search every week.

The GardeningCalendar newsletter brings useful guidance back to you: timely tasks, nearby events, plants, articles and seasonal themes. Personalized reminders reflect your location, hardiness zone, interests, weather and seasonal data—helping you act before an opportunity or gardening moment passes.

Timely reminders Nearby events Weather context Seasonal guidance Personalized themes
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Our story

Started as a service to gardeners.

GardeningCalendar.ca was created by Jean Carr to promote gardening events, practical knowledge and garden experiences. What began as a service to gardeners has grown through the encouragement of gardeners, horticultural societies, garden clubs, public gardens, contributors, sponsors and community partners.

The purpose remains simple: make gardening opportunities and knowledge easier to find, more useful and more connected.

Ontario Horticultural Association 2020 Award 2022 Year of the Garden Award Ottawa Horticultural Society 2025 Member Appreciation Award

“GardeningCalendar fills a void.”

Jamie Robertson, Ottawa Horticultural Society

“I love the wealth of information.”

Nicky Trudel

“You’ve built a wonderful resource.”

Rebecca Last, Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton

For garden organizations

Help gardeners discover what you do.

Share your events, introduce people to your garden, celebrate a community project or contribute practical knowledge. Your work becomes easier to find—and the whole gardening community becomes more useful and connected.

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From discovery to experience

Find an event. Visit a garden. Notice a plant. Learn how to grow it.

Each connection helps turn information into experience—and experience into confidence in your own garden.