Category: Garden Club

See https://champlainpark.org/garden-club/ for basic Garden Club information.

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.

[A rock with some green moss on it, you can barely see a cellular structure to the moss. There also seems to be some gray lichen on the rock too].

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

[Double Trillium]

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 – 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.

[Stock photo of a kitchen garden]

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.

[Garden]