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Gardening Classes with Joanne – Spring Series 2025
2025-04-12 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-26 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | Niagara on the Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Lane, Niagara on the Lake, L0S1J0
Maximize Your Garden Experience this Year

Joanne Young’s Saturday morning gardening classes will equip you with many new skills to tackle your garden this spring and summer.
You can take one class or all of them – They are $20.00 per class

Topics include:
Five Senses of Garden Design- How to plan you garden to incorporate them
Fusion Gardening – is design style that combines colours, textures and eco-friendly features.
Wake Up Your Garden – Get your garden off on the right foot this spring.
Spring Lawn Care- learn how to make your lawn the envy of the block
From Mish-Mash to Magnificent. Clear the chaos and learn how to edit and deliberately plant
Growing Native/Attracting Pollinators – Regardless of garden style incorporating native plants is always a good idea.
Noteworthy Plants – The Over-Achievers in the Garden – learn about the must have plants to make your garden a stand-out.
Designing with Perennials – Well planned perennials can be the backbone of good garden design.
Creative Container Combinations – Tired of your container gardens looking the same year after year?
Pruning Evergreens – Learn how to improve the longevity and health of your evergreens
Tough Plants For Tough Places – We all have spots in our gardens that prove a challenge for even the most experienced gardener. Learn how to overcome those tough areas.
All the details of our classes and links to booking classes can be found on notlhortsociety.com/classes

District 6 AGM
2025-04-12 10:00 - 15:00 | 318 Guelph st, Georgetown, 318 Guelph st, Unit #9, Georgetown
D6 Agm, hosted by Georgetown, this will have speaker Brian Folmer of Folmer gardens-Whats hot for 2025,
Guest Speaker Cathy Kavassalis-Roots of Resilence, transforming Gardens to Protect our Planet.
Judges update with a Transparency design from Rose Odell
Flower show, vendors and more

District 6 Annual Meeting
2025-04-12 10:00 - 15:00 | 318 Guelph st, Georgetown, 318 Guelph st, Unit #9, Georgetown
2 Speakers – Brian Folmer of Folmer Gardens – What’s Hot for 2025
And Cathy Kavassalis – Roots of Resilience: Transforming Gardens to Protect Our Planet
Transparency Design Demo by Rose Odell and off-site Hyper Tufa container making workshop in Milton on your way home.
Flower Show- Vendors- Penny Sale- Refreshments, Snacks, and Sandwich Bar for lunch

Spring Floral Centrepiece Workshop
2025-04-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Tansley Woods Community Centre, 1996 Itabashi Way, Burlington, L7M 4J8
Join us in crafting a beautiful centrepiece to celebrate spring/Easter, featuring fresh, vibrant flowers and lush greenery. Whether for your table or as a heartfelt gift for family and friends, this arrangement adds a touch of seasonal charm. Let your creativity bloom as spring unfolds!
Registration: e-transfer to burlhortsoc@gmail.com (preferred method) or cash/cheque accepted. In e-transfer message box please include your name, email and ph. #.
Deadline to register: April 1, 2025
All tickets are non-refundable but transferable.
Instructor Elaine Kwan is an accomplished internationally trained florist.

Spring Floral Centrepiece Workshop
2025-04-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Tansley Woods Community Centre, 1996 Itabashi Way, Burlington, L7M 4J8
Burlington Horticultural Society presents a hands-on Spring Floral Centrepiece Workshop. Join us in creating your own beautiful centrepiece to celebrate spring/Easter, featuring fresh, vibrant flowers and lush greenery. Whether for your table or as a heartfelt gift for family and friends, this arrangement adds a touch of seasonal charm. Let your imagination bloom as spring unfolds! Cost $67. ($50 materials + $17 workshop).
Registration: e-transfer to burlhortsoc@gmail.com (preferred method) or cash/cheque accepted. In e-transfer message box please include your name, email and ph. #.
Deadline to register: April 1, 2025
All tickets are non-refundable but transferable.
Instructor Elaine Kwan is an accomplished internationally trained florist.

April 2025 Oakville Hort Society Meeting
2025-04-14 18:30 - 21:00 | C.K. Nicoll Hall (Knox Presbyterian Church), 89 Dunn St., Oakville. (Parking on Robinson.), 89 Dunn St.,, Oakville., L6J 3C8
Please join us for our guest speaker Cathy Kavassalis! Doors open at 6:30 pm, meeting begins at 7:30 pm at Knox Presbyterian Church, 89 Dunn St, Oakville. (Parking on Robinson St.)

Topic: Herbs, From the Savoury to the Sensual

Georgina-Brock Garden Club - How to Start a Cut Flower Garden
2025-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Pefferlaw Lions Community Centre, 38 Pete's Lane, Pefferlaw, L0E 1N0
“How to Start a Cut Flower Garden” by Debbie and Amanda Gordon of Cloverhill Flowers. Starting on vacant land, after eight years of trial, error and success, Debbie and Amanda know a thing or two about growing cut flowers, having built a thriving business. Learn the ins and out of growing cut flowers in your own garden with valuable information and resources provided for getting started. Welcome to Spring Social.

Delhi: Speaker – Jeff Leader – “Autumn Reflections and All About Turtles”
2025-04-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Delhi Friendship Centre, 418 Queen St., Delhi (Parking Lot off of William St), 418 Queen St, Delhi
Please join us for an evening with a knowledgeable guest speaker, fellowship and refreshments.

CHS April Meeting: ‘Fruit Trees: Pruning & Care’
2025-04-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Cannington Baptist Church, 60 Cameron St. W., Cannington, L0E 1E0
This meeting was rescheduled from March. Power outage in Cannington resulted in a postponement and we are pleased to offer the presentation on Monday April 14, 2025.
Please join us in welcoming Rob Alexander the general manager at Nature’s Bounty Farm in Port Perry. Since 2018, Rob has been responsible for growing and maintaining 24 acres of orchard which includes 25 varieties of apple and two different pear cultivars. The orchard consists of over 12,000 trees, ranging from recently planted high-density to 40-year-old semi-dwarf trees. Rob has traveled around the Great Lakes, visited dozens of orchards, and has learned best management practices from growers across Canada and the USA. With a background in marketing and public relations, Rob has helped transform Nature’s Bounty into a leading agritourism destination in Durham Region. He is also an active volunteer in various agricultural organizations, including Durham Farm Fresh and the Durham Federation of Agriculture.
Rob will bring his experience and knowledge working with fruit trees – as well as tools of the trade and samples of common diseases found on fruit trees. Join us and learn from Rob. With the recent damage resulting from the ice storm on our trees Rob will follow the presentation with a Q&A.
Doors open at 7pm – Membership Registration Table open at 7pm. All welcome.

Agincourt Garden Club + Ron Brown present Hidden Villages in Toronto
2025-04-14 19:30 - 21:45 | Knox United Christian Education Center, 2575 Midland Ave @ Sheppard, Agincourt, M1S 1R4, Canada
AGINCOURT GARDEN CLUB
April 14, in person meeting
Start time: 7:30 pm
IN PERSON meeting for members and guests.
This group is for novice, regular and expert gardeners
Learn from Headliner: Ron Brown, an author and travel writer who will teach us about Toronto’s Hidden Villages. Questions at the end.
Laugh: friendship, chatter and laughter
Dessert: light refreshments
Flower shows will start again May 12/25
Location: Knox United Christian Education Center, 2575 Midland Ave. @ Sheppard, driveway off of Rural Ave. Bus stop at Rural Ave.
For more info: Cheryl.penner@hotmail.com
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GHS Monthly Meeting Speaker Olivia Chuchyck
2025-04-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Pat Clarke Community Centre, 4355 Halmont Dr, Ottawa, K1J 8W6
Olivia Chuchyck is our guest Speaker this month she will present: Dahlias — What”s New

Ken Brown “Vertical Gardening”
2025-04-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Mount Albert Community Centre, 53 Main Street, Mount Albert, L0G 1M0, Canada
Maximizing your vegetable harvest from a small yard!

April Monthly Meeting
2025-04-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Durham Legion, 271 Bruce Street North, Durham, West Grey, N0G 1R0
The Durham & District Horticultural Society welcomes an amazing horticulturalist, Paul Judge! Paul will give us a very timely presentation on how to plant, maintain and make our planters and baskets looking their best all year long. Bring your questions, have some refreshments and enjoy a wonderful evening! Everyone welcome!

Schomberg Horticultural Society – Frankie Ferragine – 90th Anniversary Event
2025-04-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Schomberg Community Hall, 325 Main Street, Schomberg, L0G 1T0
The Wacky World of Gardening – Frankie Flowers aka Frank Ferragine best selling gardening author and Canada’s Garden Expert takes us on a journey through the wacky world of gardening following the tips and tricks gardeners have done, will do and some they shouldn’t do – you will learn, you will laugh and you will become a better gardener!!
Frank Ferragine aka Frankie Flowers:
Canada’s Gardening Expert / Frankie Flowers is a 4 x best selling gardening author, 4 x recipient of Landscape Ontario’s Garden Communicator of the Year, award winning landscape designer, popular Breakfast Television host and a proud father of 2. Frankie’s family business Bradford Greenhouses Garden Gallery is one of Canada’s largest and most successful greenhouse / garden centre operations. Frankie is wild about weather, passionate about plants and family matters!
90th Anniversary Celebration – Flower Show – Refreshments – Door prizes
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1205260419359?aff=oddtdtcreator
Notes: Doors open at 6:30pm. Flower show entries, an arrangement depicting: “90th Anniversary – a Grand Celebration” have to be in place at 6:15. Free parking at the Schomberg Fair Grounds off Western Road.

Sarnia Horticultural Society monthly meeting
2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Sarnia Navy Club, 1420 Lougar Ave, Sarnia, N7S 5N4
This month Roland Craig of Cambridge, ON will present “The Harrowgate Flower Show of the United Kingdom”. 2025 memberships are available, 12.00 individual, 20.00 couple. For more information- David Hearn, 226-402-2587

Elora & Salem Meeting and Speakers: Annette Curry and Lois Weber
2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:30 | Grandway Events Centre, 7445 Wellington Rd 21, Elora, N0B 1S0
Speakers: Annette Curry & Lois Weber- Topic” Practical Tips From the Gardens of England”
Light refreshments

Heather Jerrard Presents Low Maintenance Gardens & Design
2025-04-16 19:30 - 21:00 | St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Parish Hall, 715 Centre Road, Waterdown, Waterdown, ON, Canada
Heather Jerrard owns and operates “My Landscape Artist” in London, Ontario. She has studied Landscape Design at Fanshawe College, Garden History in Italy & Spain, worked at a design firm in Cairo Egypt, lived in India and volunteered in Haiti. All this experience brought her to her new business during the pandemic in 2020. She teaches, presents, designs, and builds gardens all over Ontario. Join us at 7 PM for meet and greet. The meeting begins at 7:30 PM. First-time guests get in free. Register at the membership desk

Winona Horticultural Society April 16 Meeting
2025-04-16 19:30 - 21:30 | St. John’s Anglican Church Hall, 1285 Highway 8, Stoney Creek, L8E 5K5
The speaker is our very own Maggie Martin, a photographer, who visited Givenchy, France, and is planning to share with us an afternoon in the sun at Monet’s garden. Refreshments, wheelchair accessible.

Russell & District: Fusion landscaping
2025-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Marionville Community Centre, 4629 Gregoire Road, Marionville
Regular meeting and the topic of Fusion Landscaping with guest speaker Benjamin Stapper, Landscape Designer and garden lover.
Mini Flower Show
3 categories
1. “All Cracked Up” – an arrangement featuring egg shells.
2. “Spring Wreath” – a handmade wreath decorated with flowers (fresh or dried).
3. “H2O” – a water viewing design.

Guelph Horticultural Society Garden Tool Sharpening
2025-04-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Dublin Street United Church, 68 Suffolk Street, West, Guelph, N1H2J2
Secateur and Garden Tool Sharpening
Sharp My Knife from Rockwood will be coming to Dublin Street United Church to sharpen your secateurs and other garden tools at 6:30 pm. The van will be set up in the parking lot. You can pick up your sharp tools after the meeting. Payment is cash only and you can check out the prices at: http://www.sharpmyknife.com

The Art of Photography
2025-04-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Road, Ottawa, K1Y 4M3
In this presentation, by award-winning photographer, designer and teacher, Janice Street, you will learn about the art of photography and get some valuable tips on photographing flowers. Come and learn what goes on behind the scenes when a photographer is selecting certain elements of nature and light to turn the image into an outstanding art form.
This is an in-person event at Tom Brown Arena. Announcements at 7:00 pm followed by refreshments and social time. Presentation starts at 7:30 pm.
While we are testing new online procedures, this talk will be shared by Zoom to OHS members only. (To join, please visit https://ottawahort.org/membership/membership-form/)

Guelph Horticultural Society General Meeting and Mini Flower Show
2025-04-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Dublin Street United Church, 68 Suffolk Street, West, Guelph, N1H2J2
Speaker: Dr Andrew Peregrine
Topic: “Lime Disease: What is Happening in Ontario”

Protecting Life That Sustains Us
2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Elmvale Legion, 7 John Street, Elmvale
Kathy Patnode from Xerces Society will share her knowledge of insects and their vital role.

April Meeting / Orono Horticultural Society
2025-04-24 19:00 - 21:30 | 200 Station Street, Orono – Durham County Senior’s Complex, 200 Station Street, Orono, L0B 1M0
Guest Speaker: Vikki Whitney from Griffin’s Greenhouses; Topic: Spring In To Spring!

District 7 meeting and AGM
2025-04-26 09:30 - 12:30 | Grand ValleyCommunityCentre, 90 Main Street North, Grand Valley
District meeting and AGM for District 7

April General Meeting
2025-04-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Grace Mennonite Church, 677 Niagara St., St. Catharines, L2M 3R4
Speaker: Heather Swann, Plan(t) Wise Garden & Landscape Design
Saturday April 26 — 10 am.
Topic: Soil-Savvy Native Plant Design for (Almost) Any Garden

100th Anniversary - Speaker Sean James
2025-04-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Huntsville Salvation Army Community Church, 4 Mary Street East, Huntsville ON, P1H 1W5
Join us as we celebrate 100 years of Keeping Huntsville Beautiful by presenting Sean James as a speaker. His topic – An Appetite for Gardening: Incorporating Edible Plants into a Traditional Landscape is timely and in keeping with Communities In Blooms Edible Gardening theme.
Tickets are available for purchase at the Huntsville Public Library for $10.00. Tickets may be purchased over the phone using Visa or Mastercard by calling the Library at 705-789-5232 . Reserved tickets will be available for pick up at the venue on the date of the event.
Cake and refreshments will be served.
email huntsvillehorticulture@outlook.com for more info.

Presentation by Kayanase
2025-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Hespeler Memorial Arena- Optimist Room, 640 Ellis Road, Cambridge
In April, as part of our 125th anniversary celebration, we will host the Kayanase Restoring Mother Earth group. we will learn about a variety of topics including ecological restoration, native plants and invasive species management.

FLORAL ARTS –
2025-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Carveth Care Centre Multipurpose Room Herbert St., 338 Herbert St, Gananoque Ontario, K7G 2Z1
Floral Arts – A chance to learn more about Floral Design. Explore new techniques in a welcoming learning environment. Contact us at: gan.hort.soc@gmail.com for details.
338 Herbert St Door same as Doctors Offices
