Garden Club – September 10

Please join us for a new season of the Champlain Park Garden Club on Tuesday September 10 at 7:00 pm at the Champlain Park field house. Our guest is Ottawa Master Gardener, Odette McIntyre.

We meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month from September until June.

We have great season ahead with some really great topics, guests, tours and workshops. For example: famed naturalist Mike Runtz on wildflowers, Goth Gardening (yes that’s right) new perennials for the garden, pruning tips for shrubs and small trees, Christmas slide show of members gardens and others they admire.

Here’s an outline of Odette’s slideshow and talk for next Tuesday…

SEED SAVING – Preparing for the future

Saving your own vegetable seed makes your garden more sustainable, self-sufficient and saves you money. Learn how to save heirloom varieties, not available commercially, using veggies you harvested. Keep seed from special ornamentals, native plants, medicinal plants or perennials.

The cost to join is $25.00 plus a current Champlain Park Community Association membership. Drop in fee is $5.00 a night but if you join each meeting is only $2.50.

The Garden Club page also has general information about the club.

New Field House Garden’s Plant Mystery

via Laurie Fagan, posted on Facebook too:

Hello fellow residents,

You may have noticed the new ornamental/pollinator garden in front of the field house. It has taken several years – yes I said years – to get approval from the city of Ottawa to build it.

Earlier this Spring someone dig up and helped themselves to a peony I planted there last fall. (It was dug up and the hole it left wasn’t even covered over)

Today I noticed an Asiatic Lilly has been snapped off at ground level and the phlox have been sheared off. I am an experienced gardener and I am fairly certain this latest damage isn’t from an animal.

If you live in Champlain Park could you take a minute to talk to your family members and tell them about the garden and all the hard work that went into creating this project. Many generous residents donated the perennials making it a truly community initiative. Let’s ensure it lasts.

The good news is the Champlain Rose has started blooming.

Flower Farm Stories – March 12

Come and see and hear what it’s like to run a flower farm business from the owners of Ganden Gardens. They grow thousands of tulips, roses, dahlias and many other beautiful flowers.

Champlain Park Garden Club meeting Tuesday March 12 at 7:00 pm at the field house. Drop in fee is $5.00.

Nancy Jordan and her daughter Katrina Blackburn from Ganden Gardens in Winchester will bring us a slideshow and talk on operating a prosperous flower farm in our area. They offer bouquet subscriptions, sell at local stores and the night market at Parkdale.

[Flowers in a vase]

Garden Club – January 30

via Laurie on Facebook…

The Champlain Park Garden Club meeting on orchid growing that was rescheduled from earlier this month (cancelled due to weather) is now tomorrow night, Tuesday January 30 at 7 pm at the field house.

Drop in-fee is $5.00 (and you must have a current Champlain Park Community Association membership).

Janet Johns from the Ottawa Orchid Society will present and slide show and talk on growing these stunning beauties.

[Photo of an Orchid blossom]

See the Garden Club page for details about the meeting location.

Garden Club – November 14

The topic on Nov. 14 is The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Identifying Insects In Your Garden, featuring guest speaker Jason Vodden, a professor in the horticulture program at Algonquin College.

See the Garden Club page for details about the meeting.

Garden Club: Shrubs – October 10

After a 3 year absence the Champlain Park Garden Club is reconvening it’s monthly meetings. (We meet the first Tuesday of the month from September to June) We have talks, demonstrations, workshops and garden tours.

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a slideshow/talk on Shrubs with interest throughout the year. Our speaker is Master Gardener and owner of Green Thumb Nursery, Mary Reid (heard today on Ontario Today’s garden phone-in) we meet at the field house. Masks are optional and we’ll distance the chairs.

Membership is $30 for the year. As well you must have a current Champlain Park Community Association membership (purchased online). There is a drop in fee of $6.00.

Planting Spots Available

Room to Bloom

Calling all gardeners (or wannabees)!

Have you noticed the large concrete planters at the north end of Champlain Park? You know the ones, they block off the de-paved section of Pontiac by the Environment Committee’s Pollinator Garden and its forest terraces.

These planters are planted and tended annually by some very avid gardeners, some of whom may also happen to be your neighbours. This year, some planters remain available, and we are looking for someone to fill them with some wonderful colours or greenery.

As the adoptive parent of a planter, you would be responsible for filling it with non-invasive herbs, vegetables, or colourful flowers, and then tending it for the season.

Please reach out to Alexandra at alexandra@evershed.ca if you are interested.

Thank you for helping make our community just a little greener. Every action helps!

Champlain Park Environment Committee

Planting Spots Available

Subject: Re: Planters flourishing
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 10:32
From: Alexandra Evershed

Calling all gardeners!

Have you noticed the large planters at the north end of Champlain park that block off the de-paved area?

These are planted and tended by some of your neighbours. A couple of planters are available this year. As the adoptive parent of a planter, you would be responsible for filling it (herbs, vegetables, or colourful flowers) and tending it. Please reach out to Alexandra at alexandra@evershed.ca if you are interested.

Thank you!

Launching the Goldenrod Community Garden

Call for volunteers for a Community Garden approved for NCC land, west of the Parkdale off-ramp.

Dear Community Garden supporters,

The Goldenrod Community Garden has recently received approval to build a garden on a parcel of NCC land between Goldenrod Drive in the Tunney’s Pasture Complex and the SJAM Parkway. The garden location is just west of the Parkdale off-ramp of the SJAM Parkway.

We received approval and funding from the Ottawa Community Garden Network (a City of Ottawa agent) to purchase materials to build the garden infrastructure including: fencing, a storage shed and raised beds. We anticipate that we will start building as soon as the snow melts in the spring of 2021, approximately mid-April.

We are looking for members of the Hintonburg, Mechanicsville, Champlain Park and Westboro communities who are interested in participating in building the Goldenrod Community Garden in a number of roles. Please read the roles below and send an email with your name, availability and role to: goldenrodgarden@gmail.com
Continue reading “Launching the Goldenrod Community Garden” →

Planting Spots Available

Subject: Re: Planting season!
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 13:46:15 +0000
From: Alexandra Evershed

Calling all gardeners!

Have you noticed the large planters at the north end of Champlain park that block off the de-paved area?

These are planted and tended by some of your neighbours. A couple of planters are available this year. Please contact Alexandra (alexandra@evershed.ca) if you would like to adopt one!

Thank you!

Alexandra Evershed