Category: Garden Club

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

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.

[An English Garden with Shrubs]

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.

[Freshly planted Planter at Pontiac Street depaved area]

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!

[Planter with new Herbs]

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
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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

[Planter with new Herbs]

City Facilities & Fieldhouse Closed due to COVID-19

All activities in the Champlain Park Fieldhouse have been cancelled as of March 16 2020 and until further notice, due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

You will advised once the fieldhouse facilities are back in operation and the activities resume.
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Garden Club: New Varieties – February 11

The next garden club meeting this Tuesday will be in the field house at 7. Drop is fee is $5.00; all are welcome.

From: Judy & Andy Billingsley
Date: Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 2:32 PM
Subject: February meeting of Champlain Park Garden Club

Hi Everyone:

The next meeting of the Champlain Park Garden Club is Tuesday, February 11th. Our speaker is Cindy Cluet, owner of Beyond the House nursery in Russell. Using a slide show she will talk to us about summer containers and new perennial varieties, a timely topic as we think ahead to spring. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the field house in Champlain Park, corner of Cowley and Clearview.

Hope to see you there.

Judy Billingsley

Winter Session Activities Starting in January

All of our local activities are continuing on in January. See the full calendar for a date oriented view. Here’s a list of the classes and clubs in alphabetical order:

Wreath Making Workshop – December 1

Join the Champlain Park Garden Club on Sunday afternoon, December 1, for a holiday-wreath making workshop at the Fieldhouse. No artistic skill needed to make an 18-inch wreath with five types of fresh evergreen boughs and berries. All materials supplied. Have a fun day with your friends, even mark a birthday with this fun, creative hour.

Cost is $29. Sessions start at 1 pm and 3:30 pm. Please register in advance by calling Laurie Fagan, 613.728.1945.

[Wreath on a Door]
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Garden Club: Creating a Corner Pollinator Garden – October 8

Laurie Fagan informs us about the next garden club meeting topic, this Tuesday:

Berit Erickson was in a quandary about what to do with her front lawn after she lost a huge tree in January 2017. She started reading, and reading some more and even more when she realized the answer was creating a corner pollinator garden.

The transformation has been incredible and she’ll share her story with slides at our October meeting next Tuesday the 8th at 7:00 pm. Read more about it at https://cornerpollinatorgarden.net/about-my-garden/

The meeting will be in the field house at Champlain Park, corner of Cowley and Clearview. Drop is fee is $5.00; all are welcome.