Garden Making
Inspiring ideas and information for great home gardens
Annual seed swap and for purchase event put on by Master Gardeners of Niagara. Includes topical speakers, vendors, advice clinic, children's activities, as well as snacks and beverages for purchase.
Speaker: Paul Zammit Topic: The Joy of Growing Edibles in Your Garden Paul is a professor of Horticulture and Environmental Studies at Niagara College and past Director of Horticulture at the Toronto Botanical Garden.He is a popular speaker and provides gardening advice on CBC Radio's "Here and Now" and "Ontario Today" radio programs.February is open […]
MARCH GENERAL MEETING: GUEST SPEAKER JONAS SPRING, "AN EXPLORATION OF HARDSCAPE PLANTS" Following an extensive review of plants that grow on cliffs and alvars around southern Ontario, Jonas Spring has identified a palette of commercially available hardy, local and beautiful plants that thrive in cracks and crevices. He will share insights about these “hardscape plants” […]
Hanna Jacobs - Matchbox Garden and Seed Co will present on Vegetable gardening, crop rotation and companion planting. Wednesday March 8/23 at 7 pm - In person and Zoom For a zoom link, please email: [email protected]
Learn all the best ways to provide food and shelter for native pollinators, while delighting your family and neighbours with textures, shapes and colours. You will learn to assess site conditions and create a beautiful garden design that meets pollinator, plant and your own needs. The challenges of tough sites such as boulevards and balconies […]
Seedy Saturday returns as an in-person event this year. It is a fun and affordable way learn how to start and maintain a garden.
Georgina-Brock Garden Club's first meeting of the year. Join us as Jessica Tong of the York Region Food Network discusses food security and how growing vegetables collectively in community gardens meets this growing need. In addition, Courtney Rennie, Senior Project Manager, Parks & Open Space, from the Town of Georgina, outlines the plan for Pefferlaw's […]
Please welcome our speaker tonight, Nadine Bohner and learn how to use plant dominated solutions to realize an ecological and creative design. Free parking, guests welcome, bring your own mug for refreshments, prize draw.
Fusion Gardening blends LID (rainwater handling) with xeriscaping (drought-tolerant gardening) and folds in plantings to mitigate the effects of climate change and enhance biodiversity. One of the main focus of this style is beauty and we’ll address the backbone of each of these disciplines and discuss how to do each artfully. This talk is part […]
Join us online to learn about fruit tree care. More and more North Americans are planting fruit trees in their gardens, parks or on company land. But often new growers are disappointed. Without proper care, young fruit trees are vulnerable to pest and disease problems and often produce poor quality fruit. What many new growers […]
