Elora & Salem – 4th Annual Spring Event with Speaker: Janet Cox
Speaker: Janet Cox ” Birds, Bees & Me” ; Breakout session with Guelph Master Gardeners. There will be vendors, door prizes, refreshments & more! Entry fee is $10 at the door.
Events: Talks and Meetings
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Niagara Falls Horticultural Society: A Photographic Journey of our 2025 Garden Tour
Take a trip down memory lane as Award Winning Writer, Photographer & Speaker Theresa Forte takes us back through her photos of the 10 beautiful gardens that were featured on our Niagara Falls Horticultural Society Garden Tour: Niagara Falls Horticultural Society: A Photographic Journey of our 2025 Garden Tour Theresa Forte | Award winning Writer, Photographer…
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Credit Valley Horticultural Society March Meeting
Our March guest speaker is Dan Scallen. Dan’s presentation topic is “Anything but Grass” ——- Doors open at 7 pm with the meeting starting at 7:30 pm. Visitors always welcome. There is a nominal fee of $5 to help offset the cost of speakers.
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Georgina-Brock Garden Club – Gardening with Nature
Gardening with Nature with Marina Vander Heyden. Marina will share her journey of cultivating a ½-acre food forest and permaculture-inspired garden over the past four years. The talk will explore practical and inspiring ideas, presenting nature-based perspectives on how we can grow resilient, self-sustaining, and nourishing gardens. Everyone Welcome.
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Lavender
Tracey Bray-Bercier will be our guest speaker for the evening. Tracey and her family have a lavender farm near Moose Creek, Ontario called Brayedale Lavender. After her talk, Tracey will have some of her products for sale including lavender essential oils, dried bouquets, lavender sachets, lavender tea and lavender soap. All are welcome
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Friends of the Experimental Farm/Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton Lecture Series – Tiny Gardens Big Harvest
Practical tips for growing fresh vegetables in limited spaces using containers, vertical gardening and smart planning. Perfect planting for balconies, porches and small gardens. Please follow this link for registration and payment.
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Friends of the Experimental Farm/Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton Lecture Series – Growing Unusual Edibles: Successes, Failures and Learnings
Master Gardener Claire McCaughey has grown (or attempted to grow) a wide variety of unusual edibles with a range of results. She will share what she learned from some of her experiments, including figs, edamame, perennial leeks, American groundnut (Apios), chia, haskaps and many others. Please follow this link for registration and payment
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Friends of the Experimental Farm/Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton Lecture Series – Cold Frames and Cold Crops – Extending the Season
Learn to extend your growing season with cold frames, explore cost-effective options, and discover resilient cold-weather vegetables: why they matter, what to grow, and how. Please follow this link for registration and payment.
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Friends of the Experimental Farm/Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton Lecture Series – Nurturing Your Own Food Forest
As Canadians, we often picture forests as large tracts of land filled with a vibrant ecosystem of flora and fauna. Andrea and Angela will speak about how to bring a food forest to life in an urban environment. Please follow this link for registration and payment.
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Cold Frames and Cold Crops: Extending the Season
Cold Frames and Cold Crops is about growing delicious veggies, beyond the usual gardening confines and calendar, using cold frames and the cool season crop palette. Odette McIntyre from the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton will join the Kanata-March Horticultural Society and will share her knowledge about how to extend the season with cold frames, the…
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Designing a Summer Planter + KMHS Flower and Edibles Show
Elizabeth Johnston, co-owner of Ramsay Creek Greenhouse joins the Kanata-March Horticultural Society’s June meeting to provide a demonstration of how to design an outdoor planter arrangement for the summer season. We will also be holding our Kanata-March Spring Flower Show featuring seasonal edible and floral entries plus design category entries submitted by our members. This…
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Invasive Plants in Your Gardens: Becoming More of a Critical Gardener
If you are a gardener, chances are you have cultivated an invasive plant species. You may not yet have learned that some of your favourite plants are invasive. It’s a difficult fact to learn and to accept. Connie Matthews-Cull joins the Kanata-March Horticultural Society’s May meeting to discuss the many considerations that today’s gardeners need…
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High Performance, Low Maintenance Plants
Many gardeners aspire to create a garden that is both beautiful and easy to maintain. Lee Ann Smith from the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton joins the Kanata-March Horticultural Society’s April 7th meeting to explain what makes a plant high performance, what low maintenance means, and recommends plants that meet these criteria. Her presentation provides an…
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Orangeville – Paul Brydges “A Backyard Garden Retreat”
Please welcome our guest speaker this evening, Paul Brydges, as he talks about “A Backyard Garden Retreat”. Relax in a beautifully designed area of your garden. Guests are welcome, free parking, prize draws, sharing table, bring a mug for refreshments.
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Schomberg Horticultural Society – Container Gardening
“Container Gardening” by Maria Shtemberg: Maria is a Master Gardener who will take a fresh look at this growing trend with tips and tools to make your containers spectacular and useful year-round. Doors open at 7pm. Pizza Party – Refreshments – Baking Competition, Door Prizes 7:30 Presentation Free to members, $ 5.00 at the door…
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Wintery Greenery
Tonight will be our Annual General Meeting starting at 7:00pm. Starting with a brief business component followed by election of officers. This will be followed by a speaker and demonstration on “Wintery Greenery”. Followed up with refreshments and friendly conversations.
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Awards Night
Tonight is our Awards Night. This is members only and reservations required.
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Fall Flower Show & Growing Garlic
The meeting this evening will begin at 7:00pm with a brief business component. Tonight is also our Fall Flower and Vegetable Show. Exhibits should be in place between 5:30 and 6:45 pm. Please provide your own clear glass containers. Name your specimens where possible. Judging will start at 7:00 pm. Our speaker this evening will…
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Spring Flower Show and member chat
The meeting will begin at 7:00pm with a brief business component. This evening is our Spring Flower Show. Exhibits should be in place between 5:30 & 6:45 pm. Please provide your own clear glass containers. Name your specimens where possible. Judging will start at 7:00pm. During judging of the flowers there will be a member…
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Shrubs for all seasons
Meetings start at 7:00pm, with a brief business components before our guest speaker. Tonights speaker is Mary Sherman Reid speaking on “Shrubs for all Seasons”, Followed up with refreshments and friendly conversation.
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Gardening for the Birds
The meeting will begin at 7:00pm, with a brief business component before our guest speaker. This evening our presentation will be a virtual. Kristen Martyn will be speaking on Gardening for the Birds. Followed up with refreshments and friendly conversation.
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Seed Saving
Learn how to save your own vegetable seeds to make your garden more sustainable and self-sufficient and save you money. Learn how to save heirloom varieties, not available commercially, using veggies you harvested. Keep seed from special ornamentals, native plants, medicinal plants or perennials you hybridized yourself. Connect with your local seed libraries and the…
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