Events: Botanical and Gardens

Dominion Arboretum Tree Tour

Dominion Arboretum Tree Tour

WHEN: Sunday May 4, 10:00 am [Rain or Shine] WHERE: Tropical Greenhouse, Maple Drive, Central Experimental Farm. Please note that this tour is starting from a different location than most of our tree tours. Limited parking is available to the north of the greenhouse. WHAT: There are many flowers on the Farm. Some flowering is happening earlier due…

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…

Limestone Barrens of Newfoundland

Limestone Barrens of Newfoundland

Presentation: The Limestone Barrens of Newfoundland Recently Erika travelled to Newfoundland. Her talk will focus on the flora of western Newfoundland’s boreal forests, widespread bogs, and serpentine and limestone barrens.  Before the Presentation, 10 am to noon Fledgling Seed Sowers-Workshop Seed Sowing Workshop—to get you started Hands on! Take your seed creations home: Hibiscus trionum,…

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…

Winter Light Festival – Nikka Yuko

Winter Light Festival – Nikka Yuko

Welcome to our annual Winter Light Festival experience! We hope you will enjoy this year’s light display celebrating the seasons! The garden will be separated into four sections, designed to capture the essence of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Don’t forget to check out our giant Lite-Brite display made by Wesbridge Construction inside the Kid’s Corner! If you would like to add the Kamakura [Igloo] Projection Dome, to your experience, use the add-on option in the ticket levels (labelled in black). This add-on does not include garden admission and must be purchased with an admission ticket. This experience is not available on Fridays in January and February, instead, it is reserved for our Date Night in the Dome bookings, available on our website.  For more information on special events, bookings and garden history please visit our website: nikkayuko.com