Events: Community Activities
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West Carleton Garden Club & Horticultural Society: November Meeting
Let’s Get WILD!!!!! A little club business, followed by a walk on the wild side!! Join the West Carleton Garden Club for our Annual General Meeting followed by an inspiring presentation from Master Gardener Lee Ann Smith. Discover the beauty of wildscaping with native plants and ornamental grasses. Carp Memorial Hall (3739 Carp Rd) at…
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Ottawa Remixed 🎶🐙 – Come Play the OCTOMASHER!
What happens when eight people become one giant DJ? Come play the OCTOMASHER — a one-of-a-kind collaborative musical instrument that lets up to eight people mix and mash sounds together. Ottawa Remixed is the final event in Mixed Metaphors’ DOME-OCRACY series at Canadensis Garden, presented as part of Ottawa 200.
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West Carleton Garden Club & Horticultural Society: October Meeting and Annual Seed Swap
Join us for our October meeting and our Annual Seed Swap! Bring in your dried seeds by 6:45 and swap for other seeds you’d like. At 7:30 we’ll be hearing from Master Gardner Nancy McDonald on the Fall Garden – What to Plant, What to Store, What to Divide, and What to Remove.
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Niagara Falls Horticultural Society presents BULBS IN BLOOM with Darrell Bley
8 Details BULBS IN BLOOM — A Hands-On Evening with Darrell Bley! Join the Niagara Falls Horticultural Society for an inspiring and interactive evening exploring the wonderful world of spring bulbs! Darrell Bley will lead a hands-on demonstration, inviting three volunteers to help create a beautiful layered bulb planter while sharing simple tips on planting,…
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Ottawa 200 Block Party
Full details will be available soon. Please check back then. Thank you.
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🍁 National Tree Day at Canadensis Garden
🌳 Celebrate National Tree Day at Canadensis Garden with tree planting, a mature tree tour, a self-guided scavenger hunt and more. Free admission and free parking – rain or shine!
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Open House: Garden Renewal Project at the Dundas Museum & Archives & Dundas Horticultural Society
Join us at the Dundas Museum & Archives on September 24 for an open house highlighting the first phase of its Garden Renewal Project, an exciting partnership with the Dundas Horticultural Society. This three-year initiative will transform the museum grounds into a living heritage garden that blends history, natural beauty, native and historically inspired plantings,…
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🪨🎶 THE OTHER ROCK MUSIC
We’re taking “rock music” literally.
What happens when rocks become musical instruments?
As part of the Ottawa 200 celebrations and Mixed Metaphors’ DOME-OCRACY series, Canadensis Garden invites visitors to make music with stones — rocks that ring, resonate, click and clack, creating sounds you might not expect.
Come explore the sounds of lithophones and discover just how musical a rock can be.
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Niagara Falls Horticultural Society 102nd Annual Flower & Vegetable Show
Come celebrate 102 years of gardening tradition at the Niagara Falls Horticultural Society’s Annual Flower & Vegetable Show! Join us for an afternoon showcasing beautiful member-grown flower and vegetable specimens, along with creative floral and horticultural designs. There’s something to inspire every gardener and plant lover! Saturday, August 29, 2026 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM St. John’s…
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West Carleton Garden Club & Horticultural Society: Fall Flower Show and Talk
Join us Sept 8 at Carp Memorial Hall (3739 Carp Road) for the Fall Flower Show followed by a talk on Attracting Birds to Your Garden by Berit Erikson, Further details as follow: Fall Flower and Vegetable Show Please bring your entries between 6:15pm and 7:15pm The theme this year is Hayride at the Orchard…
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🎭 Shakespeare Meets ABBA at Canadensis Garden
A Company of Fools brings A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Canadensis Garden on Thursday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m. Set against a sun-soaked Greek island backdrop, this lively outdoor production blends Shakespeare with the music and spirit of ABBA for an evening of romance, mischievous fairies, laugh-out-loud comedy and unforgettable music. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy Shakespeare under the stars at Hartwells Locks Lane. Admission is pay what you can (recommended donation: $20 per person).
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Musical Marble Run
What happens when a marble run becomes a musical instrument?
Visit Canadensis Garden for Musical Marble Run, a free, hands-on experience where marbles travel through a giant wooden course, striking tuned metal chimes to create unexpected melodies. Experiment with different starting points and discover that making music can be as simple as rolling a marble.
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Life Among the Stones – Aug 2nd – Guided cemetery plant walk
Life Among the Stones: Summer Plant Walks August exploration of plants that thrive among in cemeteries and the rich biodiversity of burial sites- and an afternoon stroll! Life Among the Stones in August- and it’s a long weekend edition! Our Plant Walk summer series continues. We meet at Mcdonald Gardens Park, formerly the Sandy Hill…
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Community Garden to Table
Grow and discover together in this hands-on series! Learn how to grow our own edible gardens. In partnership with York Region Food Network. Registration is for all 4 sessions. A portion of the vegetables grown from this program series will go towards a Culinary Literacy program in early Fall. All sessions will take place at…
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Felted Fungi: A Forest Fibre Workshop
Spend a dreamy afternoon at Flying Moon Farm in the Ottawa Valley, turning wool into tiny woodland worlds, learning to needle felt. Spend a dreamy afternoon at Flying Moon Farm in the Ottawa Valley, turning wool into tiny woodland worlds. In this beginner-friendly needle felting workshop, you’ll sculpt wool from our flock and local suppliers…
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Noticing Nature – Presented by Scientists in School
Notice all that nature has to offer, big and small with this Scientists in School Workshop! Chicka-dee-dee-dee. Who was that? Play a game to discover nature sounds around us. Buzz your newly created bee around flowers to pollinate them. Investigate seeds and make a seed caterpillar that will grow over time. Notice all that nature…
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Plant Walk Life Among the Stones
Discover plants that thrive among the stones and the rich biodiversity of burial sites while enjoying an afternoon stroll. Life Among the Stones in July! Our Plant Walk summer series continues. We meet at St. Patrick’s church cemetery on July 12th, 2pm, 15 Steeple Hill Crescent in Nepean. On this educational adventure discover the many…
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Members-only Society Tours and Event this Summer.
Join one or more Garden Clubs or Horticultural Societies throughout Ontario. Most garden clubs and horticultural societies organize exciting members-only summer events, including private garden tours, destination excursions, garden-inspired and theme-based social gatherings, and so forth. Discover Garden Clubs or Horticultural Societies in your area to sign up and participate.
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⭕ GOING-GOING-GONG ⭕
⭕ GOING-GOING-GONG ⭕
Step inside the dome and discover what happens when movement becomes music.
Created by Ottawa artists Mixed Metaphors, GOING-GOING-GONG is a free interactive sound installation featuring suspended gongs that visitors can play with mallets—or activate simply by moving through the space.
Presented as part of the DOME-OCRACY Interactive Music Series and Ottawa 200, this unique outdoor experience invites visitors of all ages to explore sound, creativity, and play in the beautiful setting of Canadensis Garden.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
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August Social
Being a member has it perks!!! Our member fee is $25/year and you get access to exclusive events, and our monthly meetings. August Social “Monarch Mingle” is a garden party potluck, with fantastic fare and games. Contact the Tillsonburg Hort Society to become a member tbhssecretary@gmail.com
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🌿 Canadensis AGM Featuring Alexander Reford
Join Canadensis Botanical Garden Society (CBGS) for its 2026 Annual General Meeting and hear the latest news about plans for the future Botanical Garden of Canada.
Following the AGM business meeting, special guest speaker Alexander Reford, Founder of the International Garden Festival and former Director General of Reford Gardens, will present: Art in Gardens / Art of Gardens – How the Conceptualist Gardens of the International Garden Festival Transform the Visitor Experience
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🎵 DOME-OCRACY: Music, Nature & Community at Canadensis Garden
As part of the Ottawa 200 celebrations, Canadensis Garden is hosting Dome-Ocracy, a free summer event series that brings people together through sound, creativity, and exploration. Set at Canadensis Garden, the series blends music, nature, architecture, and community in a unique outdoor experience.
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Food Crops & Urban Biodiversity: Foodshare Sunshine Garden Greenhouse Tour
Join us at the Sunshine Garden Greenhouse and learn about the importance of urban biodiversity Join us as we tour CAMH’s FoodShare Sunshine Garden Greenhouse and learn about the biodiversity of the food forest. Dr. Javad Mozafari, Garden Coordinator from FoodShare, will share his knowledge about the different strategies for planting gardens that support the…
