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Fruits – How to Grow
Our first meeting of 2025 is on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 7:00 PM. We will start the year with a Zoom meeting.
Events: Ottawa & Gatineau Area
Grow Like A Pro – Hydroponic Gardening
Regular meeting and guest speaker Rebecca Boyar on “Grow Like A Pro – Hydroponic Gardening”. Mini Flower Show 3 categories 1. In honour of World Candle Day on March 1, an arrangement in a candle holder. 2. In honour of National Cereal Day, an arrangement in a bowl. 3. In honour of March Break, an…
Being an urban potager
Regular Meeting and talk on being an urban potager by Odette Mcintyre. A potager is a French kitchen garden that’s designed to grow vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for cooking. The word “potager” comes from the French phrase jardin potager, which translates to “garden of vegetables” or “for the soup pot”. Join us and learn more from…
GHS Garden Sharing: A garden tour with a twist
At this garden tour our members visit each others gardens to learn about successes and failures and to share advice for projects in the planning. If you need advice for your garden sign up. If you received advice in the past and want to share how it went sign up. This is not a fancy…
GHS Monthly Meeting Speaker Olivia Chuchyck
Olivia Chuchyck is our guest Speaker this month she will present: Dahlias — What”s New
Does your pond work as it should?
Guest speaker & GOWGHS member – Richard Inchley – takes us through what to look for in a “working pond”. Doors open at 7 pm and the speaker begins at 7:30 pm.
The Gardens of New Zealand
Retired Master Gardener and plant collector extraordinaire Mary Ann Van Berlo will take us on her recent tour of the intriguing gardens of the south and north islands of New Zealand with an added emphasis on the water gardens, ponds and wetlands she discovered throughout.
No GOWGHS Meeting in February
No meeting or speaker sceduled
Ottawa Orchid Society February Meeting
Please note: Due to an expected snow storm, the Ottawa Orchid Society is moving the February monthly meeting on Sunday February 16 to an online meeting only. Members please watch for the email with the registration link. Join us for our February meeting to hear Nicholas Rust of RustyExotics Orchids in Athens, Georgia. He will…
Pushing the Zone Limit
ZOOM MEETING – Pushing the Zone LimitDiscover plants that will grow in our area despite being ‘not hardy’ according to their label. Mary Annwill share information on some of the unusual plants that she’s successfully grown in both her formerrural Ottawa garden and in her current Maitland garden. She will provide some cultivation tips thatshe’s…
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Free Seed-starting Seminar for Beginners (Petawawa)
Starting plants from seeds can be intimidating and overwhelming. With a little know-how, you can easily start herbs on your window sill, make a bean fort for the kids, or enjoy the best-toasted tomato sandwich you’ve ever had. It’s grown by YOU from the seed! Join us at our Petawawa location with experts from Ritchie’s…
Free Birding 101 Seminar (Petawawa)
Birding 101: Not Just for the Birds Pinebush Home & Garden Ltd. is a family-owned Ontario company, with roots in the farm supply industry, distributing quality bird feeders and garden tools across Canada. Rebeca Boyar is our eastern Ontario representative; she is a local homesteader and bird enthusiast with over 20 years of experience feeding…
Free Lawn Alternatives Seminar
Imagine ditching a monochrome green lawn for a field of flowers that attracts bumblebees and butterflies, sustained only by the sun and the rain. Discover low-maintenance lawn alternatives like microclovers that are drought tolerant, require little or no care, and entice a wide array of insects and birds to your yard. Join me as we…
Free Nature-focused Garden Design Seminar (Windmill Lane)
In this presentation, you will learn key design basics and how to maximize your current or future outdoor space. An important feature of your gardens can be the inclusion of elements that support our wildlife. Considering biodiversity when planning or rejuvenating your space can lead to the reward of attracting all kinds of pollinators. It’s…
Free Veggie Gardening Seminar for Beginners (Sponsored by Fafard)
Join us at our Ottawa East Location with expert Lana Doss from Ritchie’s Green Team for a demonstration and many veggie gardening tips. PLUS Fafard will be donating one bag of Biosol Sea Compost with Peat, Seaweed and Shrimp to each participant and a chance to win a 100$ gift to Ritchie’s. Bring in your…
Free Seed-starting Seminar for Beginners (Sponsored by Fafard)
Starting plants from seeds can be intimidating and overwhelming. With a little know-how, you can easily start herbs on your window sill, make a bean fort for the kids, or enjoy the best-toasted tomato sandwich you’ve ever had. It’s grown by YOU from the seed! Join us at our Ottawa East Location with expert Lana…
Free Birding 101 Seminar (Windmill lane)
Birding 101: Not Just for the Birds Pinebush Home & Garden Ltd. is a family-owned Ontario company, with roots in the farm supply industry, distributing quality bird feeders and garden tools across Canada. Rebeca Boyar is our eastern Ontario representative; she is a local homesteader and bird enthusiast with over 20 years of experience feeding…
Creating Your Own Pollinator Garden
Berit Erickson will be sharing her experience of establishing a pollinator garden around her Ottawa home. She will talk about her successes as well as her mistakes. Berit writes a blog on her website replete with information of interest to those of us who want to do the same.
Fletcher Wildlife Garden
Started more than 30 years ago as an idea in the minds of two Ottawa Field Naturalists Club (OFNC) members, the Fletcher Wildlife Garden has become an icon in the Ottawa gardening scene. Pioneers at the time, Jeff Harrison and Peter Hall thought that if you created a “natural area” with a variety of habitats…
PHS – Spring Flower Show and Invasive Species
Beware Buckthorn & Burning Bush – Managing Invasive Species in your Own Garden During the judging of the spring flower Show, Connie Cull will speak on Invasive Species The doors will open at 6:00pm and the meeting will start at 7:00pm. After the meeting, you are invited to view the results of the Spring Flower…
PHS – Butterfly Way/Pollinator Gardens
Learn how to become part of a citizen led project to increase habitat for pollinators of all kinds. Let’s lead Pakenham to become a Butterfly Way Ranger in Mississippi Mills and join more that 150 other communities who have achieved this goal. The doors will open at 7:00pm and the meeting will start at 7:30pm….
PHS – Ten Cotswolds Gardens
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to visit the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show? Pakenham Hort member and past president, Sherryl Smith, will guide us through ten Cotswolds’ Gardens and a day at the Chelsea Flower Show as part of her presentation. The doors will open at 7:00pm and the meeting…
PHS Movie Night “Greenfingers”
Please join us as we kick off 100 years of Horticulture in Pakenham. We are thrilled to sponsor a free movie night in the sanctuary of St Andrews United Church. We will be showing the uplifting British comedy, Greenfingers, based on a true story of prisoners that complete in the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show…