Garden Club – March 10

The next meeting of Champlain Park Garden Club is Tuesday, March 10th, 7:00 p.m. at the fieldhouse in Champlain Park.

Join us for a slideshow and talk from Cindy Cluett, owner of Beyond the House Nursery. Cindy will share the newest introductions in perennials, annuals, shrubs and ornamental grasses with us. Her knowledge and expertise is vast.

Drop in fee for non-members is $5.00.

Garden Club – now April 14

Due to the weather forecast of 15 cms of snow, the Champlain Park garden club is postponing the slideshow/ talk on Canadian mosses scheduled for Tuesday February 10 to Tuesday April 14. Sorry for any inconvenience but that’s winter in Ottawa.

The Champlain Park Garden Club invites you to a slideshow and talk on Canadian mosses and their plant relatives on Tuesday April 14 at 7 pm in the field house.

These incredible plants provide food and habitat to many animal and plant species.

Jennifer Doubt, curator of Botany at the Canadian Museum of Nature is the guest speaker. Doubt oversees the collection, preservation and documentation of over a million specimens of Canadian wild plants.

Drop-in fee for non-members is $5.00.

Garden Club Cancelled – January 13

Due to a freezing rain forecast, today’s Garden Club meeting is cancelled.

Garden Club – January 13

The next meeting of Champlain Park Garden Club is Tuesday, January 13th, 7:00 p.m. at the fieldhouse in Champlain Park.

Escape the snow and come watch and hear a talk about unusual wild plant and flower treasures from the Ottawa valley. Brian Carson who discovered a rare double trillium will be our guest.

Visitor drop-in fee is $5.00

Garden Club – November 11

Hi Gardeners:

The next meeting of Champlain Park Garden Club is Tuesday, Nov. 11th, 7:00 p.m. at the fieldhouse in Champlain Park.

Ottawa Master Gardener Candace Dressler will discuss plants that are native to the different eco-regions of North America. Her emphasis will be on Ontario natives and how to use plants tags to determine if a plant is native to the Ottawa region.

Hope to see you there.

Judy Billingsley

Garden Club – October 14

via Laurie Fagan’s Facebook post:

Join the Champlain Park garden club tonight, October 14 as Ottawa master gardener Mary Ann Van Berlo gives a slide/talk on the gardens of New Zealand. She’ll include indigenous wild flowers from the Kiwi nation.

Champlain Park field house at 7 pm.

Join the garden club or drop in fee of $5.00.

Garden Club – May 13

Plan to attend the Champlain Park garden club’s May slideshow/talk on goth gardening.
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Garden Club – April 8

Join the Champlain Park Garden Club on Tuesday April 8 at the field house for a talk/slideshow on the history of kitchen gardens.

Master Gardener Judith Cox presents the history of kitchen gardens from those at Monasteries to the Victorian-era and the varieties planted during the two World Wars. She’ll also give a brief history of walled gardens.

7:00 pm at the Champlain Park field house.
Drop-in fee is $5.00 and all are welcome.

Garden Club – March 11

Just a reminder that the next Garden Club meeting will be on Tuesday March 11, 7pm.

Cindy Cluett, owner of Beyond the House Nursery in Russell, will present a slideshow and talk on new and emerging trends in perennials, annuals and shrubs. Not to be missed, she’s a wealth of knowledge.

7:00 pm at the Champlain Park field house.
Drop-in fee is $5.00.

[Photo from Garden Centre page of Beyond the House]

Garden Club – February 11

Just a reminder that the Garden Club meeting (Tuesday February 11, 7pm) will be a talk and slideshow on Phenology by Master Gardener Rebecca Last.

Phenology is the study of how the seasons affect the life cycles of plants and animals. Rebecca will focus on how climate change is affecting the life cycles in the plant world.

Drop in fee $5.00.

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