Events: Old Ottawa South Garden Club

Vines for the Garden

Vines for the Garden

Though often overlooked in garden design, vines are a versatile category of plants that include many beautiful ornamental, native, and edible varieties, that can be used for a range of landscaping needs and gardening conditions. Please join Mary Shearman Reid, owner of Green Thumb Garden Centre, a Master Gardener, and popular speaker, as she shares…

Water-wise Gardening

Water-wise Gardening

As climate change brings hotter weather and more extreme precipitation—how can we gardeners adapt? Master Gardener and blogger (www.gardeningatlast.ca), Rebecca Last will discuss strategies for water-wise gardening including: preventing run-off, harvesting water, watering wisely, conserving soil moisture, xeriscaping, and plant selection. 

Gardens in New Zealand

Gardens in New Zealand

Retired Master Gardener and plant collector, Mary Ann Van Berlo, will take members on an armchair tour of the amazing gardens of the south and north islands of New Zealand. The tour will emphasize the different styles of gardens she recently visited: from formal to English cottage-gardens and from the exotic to the native. 

Pollinator Gardening

Pollinator Gardening

A double bill of Berit Erickson, creator of The Corner Pollinator Garden blog, and Sandy Garland, co-founder of the Wild Pollinator Partners. Berit will show members how to create and maintain a native-plant pollinator garden that blooms from spring to fall. Sandy will describe some of the community pollinator-gardens in Old Ottawa South that members…