Events: Toronto and Ontario

CHS Golden Garden Party – Celebrating our 50th Anniversary

CHS Golden Garden Party – Celebrating our 50th Anniversary

The Cannington Horticultural Society is thrilled to celebrate a significant milestone in 2025 โ€“ our 50th anniversary! To commemorate this special occasion, we warmly invite you to our โ€œGolden Garden Partyโ€ in MacLeod Park, Cannington. We have a delightful afternoon planned with various activities, demonstrations, engaging talks, and refreshments. Please join us as we recognize…

Weather & Climate Smart Gardening with Heather Auld

Weather & Climate Smart Gardening with Heather Auld

Tonightโ€™s speaker, Heather Auld, asserts that gardeners and farmers are optimists, as they plant and tend their land, hoping for the right temperatures at the right time, sufficient rainfall, less destructive storms, manageable pests, good soil, and some luck to give a successful, beautiful, and healthy garden or high crop yields. Unfortunately, while the soil…

Preserving Mature Trees

Preserving Mature Trees

Preserving Mature Trees by Toni Ellis of Tree Trust. A passionate talk with photographs focusing on the value and importance of mature trees and why we canโ€™t take them for granted. Toni will give pointers on how homeowners can keep mature trees healthy and explain what Tree Trust is doing to keep big trees on…

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)

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…

Seedy Saturday

Seedy Saturday

For all gardeners, novice to expert – a donโ€™t miss event!ย  Saturday, March 29 9 – 2. Free Admission.ย  Seeds, seed swap, knowledgeable speakers, childrenโ€™s activities, numerous vendors offering a wide assortment of seeds, seedlings, native plants, garden related items, honey, jams, lavender products & more.ย  Hosted by 2 local garden clubs:ย  Cannington & Georgina-Brock.

2025 Gardener’s Garden Tour

2025 Gardener’s Garden Tour

The 2025 Gardener’s Garden Tour organized by the Niagara-on-the-Lake Horticultural Society promises to be a captivating experience for garden enthusiasts and nature lovers alike. Scheduled for July 12, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., this self-guided tour will showcase a selection of unique gardens, each reflecting the vision, dedication and passions of their homeowners,…

Innisfil Seedy Saturday

Innisfil Seedy Saturday

Join us for our 8th annual Innisfil Seedy Saturday event that brings together new and seasoned gardeners, seed savers and community members passionate about mindful gardening, food security and our environment. Our event includes seed vendors, garden-related community groups and businesses, 10th anniversary season reopening of the Innisfil Seed Library, expert talks, childrenโ€™s activities and…

Hamilton Seedy Saturday

Hamilton Seedy Saturday

Green Venture and Hamilton Public Library are pleased to announce that Hamilton’s annual Seedy Saturday will be happening on February 1, 2025 at the Central Library Branch, 4th Floor from 10 am – 3 pm. Seedy Saturday is the ‘go to’ place for anyone and everyone interested in backyard gardening, local food, pollinator gardens, sustainability,…