Events: Botanical and Gardens

Perennials Garden Tour

Perennials Garden Tour

WHEN: Saturday July 19, 9:00 a.m. Registration is for one individual only. Each attendee must be registered separately. The tour will take place RAIN OR SHINE. WHERE: The tour will meet in the small parking lot beside Building 75 on the NCC Driveway. Visitor parking at this location is limited to 90 minutes. Plentiful paid parking is…

Rose Garden Tour

Rose Garden Tour

WHEN: Saturday, June 14, 2025, 2:00 p.m. Registration is for one individual only. Each attendee must be registered separately. The tour will take place RAIN OR SHINE. WHERE: Meet at the Friends of the Farm shed near the east end of the Agriculture Museum parking lot. WHAT: The first roses were planted at the Central Experimental Farm (CEF)…

Rock Garden Tour

Rock Garden Tour

WHEN: Tuesday, July 22 at 5:00 p.m. Registration is for one individual only. Each attendee must be registered separately. The tour will take place RAIN OR SHINE. WHERE: Meet at the small parking lot beside Building 75 on the NCC Driveway. Visitor parking at this location is limited to 90 minutes. Tour leader: Annie Creighton, Team Leader, Rock…

Rock Garden Tour

Rock Garden Tour

WHEN: Tuesday, June 17 at 5:00 p.m. Registration is for one individual only. Each attendee must be registered separately. The tour will take place RAIN OR SHINE. WHERE: Meet at the small parking lot beside Building 75 on the NCC Driveway. Visitor parking at this location is limited to 90 minutes. Tour leader: Annie Creighton, Team Leader, Rock…

Peony Garden Tour

Peony Garden Tour

WHEN: Wednesday, June 11, focusing on mid-season bloomers (rain date June 12) at 6:15 p.m. Registration is for one individual only. Each attendee must be registered separately.  WHERE: Meet at the oak tree in the peony gardens. There is a small parking lot beside Building 75 on the NCC Driveway. Visitor parking at this location is limited to 90…

Peony Garden Tour

Peony Garden Tour

WHEN: Wednesday, June 4, focusing on Saunders peonies (rain date June 5) at 6:15 p.m. Registration is for one individual only. Each attendee must be registered separately.  WHERE: Meet at the oak tree in the peony gardens. There is a small parking lot beside Building 75 on the NCC Driveway. Visitor parking at this location is limited to 90…

Children’s Day

Children’s Day

Join us at the Vallarta Botanical Garden on April 30th for a fun-filled day in nature! 11:00 a.m. – Kids’ movie screening with popcorn 12:30 p.m. – Coloring time 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Pony rides for kids (Station in front of the pond)   Free entry for members  | General admission: $300 MXN…

Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

This Palm Sunday, we invite you to a special botanical tour at 11 a.m. Come and discover our collection of palms from Mexico and around the world! Included with your admission to the Vallarta Botanical Garden. See you there. Free entry for members | Non-members: $300 MXN per person

Celebrate Easter in Bloom

Celebrate Easter in Bloom

Join a special celebration at the Vallarta Botanical Garden, where spring and tradition come together in a breathtaking natural setting.   11:00 am Easter Egg HuntChildren can explore the gardens in search of hidden Easter eggs among the lush flora.Don’t forget to bring your own basket! 12:00 pm Egg Decorating WorkshopGet creative and bring your…

Open Gardens

Open Gardens

Join us for a stroll through two beautiful gardens at peak bloom during our Open Gardens event. Visit Maitland Garden of Hope and Van Berlo Gardens, both in Maitland, Ontario. Maitland Garden of Hope: 1 Jones Court, Maitland, ON; 613-348-3125polish@sympatico.ca Van Berlo Gardens: 1357 County Road 2, Maitland, ON; 613-640-0288vanberlo.gardens@gmail.com (Rain date: 20 July)

Flower Festival

Flower Festival

Come and enjoy our annual Flower Show, March 20th to 23rd, when the Vallarta Botanical Garden will be filled with the colors of spring. Immerse yourself in an explosion of colors with our floral exhibitions, boasting a captivating variety of colors, shapes and fragrances. Explore the Hall of Flowers and marvel at the beauty of…

2025 Festival of Fountains: The Night Garden

2025 Festival of Fountains: The Night Garden

The Night Garden evening performances introduce an interpretive storytelling experience of music, water, and lighting create a magical theatrical experience. Whistling Gardens is the first in Canada to use special computerized pumps to create dazzling effects.  The computerized musical fountain program is likely the largest in the country!  SHOP! The rare, beautiful and one of…

Growing Dahlias

Growing Dahlias

Dahlias play a key role in many flower gardens, with their variety of heights, colours, shapes and their willingness to flower right up to the last hard frost!  Brittiny Lepage of The Dahlia Darling joins our March meeting to show us how to successfully grow dahlias in our local growing zone.  Topics to be discussed…

Botanical Mixed Media: Transform Your Garden Photos into Paintings

Botanical Mixed Media: Transform Your Garden Photos into Paintings

Explore your creativity with a three-part mixed-media painting workshop! Capture the beauty of nature and turn it into a work of art in this beginner-friendly course at the Toronto Botanical Garden. Using your own photos of flowers and plants from the gardens or your home, you’ll explore how to transform simple images into vibrant mixed-media…

Notes on a Japanese Garden

Notes on a Japanese Garden

“In a Japanese-themed garden, a small space holds big ideas about designing with plants, stone, water and “ma”, the all-important space in between. Part garden travelogue, part gardening experiment, this lecture aims to inspire.”   This is the fifth and last in a series of five lectures being presented by the Friends of the Central…

Sowing the Inspired Garden

Sowing the Inspired Garden

“Advice on seasonal gardening tasks such as sowing from seed, dividing perennials, trimming and clean-up. Tasks that will inspire garden splendour and good health.”   This is the fourth in a series of five lectures being presented by the Friends of the Central Experimental Farm and the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton in 2025 to offer timely and informative…