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Upcoming Events

13 Jul 2025;
11:00AM - 04:00PM
ORG&HPS Garden Tour 2025
15 Aug 2025;
12:00AM
2-night Garden visit to the Bruce Peninsula
14 Sep 2025;
01:00PM - 05:00PM
October Meeting featuring Geir Moen
05 Oct 2025;
01:00PM - 05:00PM
October Meeting featuring Todd Boland

What's New!

  • 2025 Meeting Dates
  • Recalcitrant/Hydrophilic Seed Exchange for Members-2025
  • Peter Keeping 2025 Clematis List
  • ORG&HPS 2025 Garden Tour
  • Bruce Peninsula Garden Tour

Plant of the Month


Eryngium giganteum

Eryngium giganteum,
Miss Willmott’s Ghost


 

Toronto Botanical Garden

Our in-person meetings are held at the TBG.

Speakers

René Giguère

Bio:  Rene is newly retired from the Montreal Botanical Garden where he was curator of the alpine garden at for 23 years.

Read more: René Giguère

Robert Pavlis

Robert Pavlis is a well-known speaker, and educator with over 40 years of gardening experience. He is the author of several books, Building Natural Ponds, Soil Science for Gardeners and Garden Myths

Read more: Robert Pavlis

Sean James

Named by GardenMaking magazine as one of “20 Making a Difference” and by Landscape Ontario 2020 and 2021’s Garden Communicator of the Year, Sean has been gardening professionally since he was sixteen and speaking to horticultural societies for more than 25 years.

Read more: Sean James

Sharon and John Bowler

Sharon and John Bowler are members of the Grimsby Garden Club and the Ontario Rock Garden and Hardy Plant Society.

Read more: Sharon and John Bowler

Susan Chater

As she describes herself, Susan Chater was born in England with a gardening grandmother who enriched her life with a love of gardening.

Read more: Susan Chater

Todd Boland

Web Site: http://www.mun.ca

Bio:  Todd lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he works as the chief horticulturist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden.

Read more: Todd Boland

Tom Freeth

Tom Freeth, trained in horticulture and landscape designing, is a nature lover in all its forms.

Read more: Tom Freeth

Tony Reznicek

Tony Reznicek has recently retired from his day job as a Curator at the University of Michigan Herbarium, especially working with the flora and biogeography of the Great Lakes region, with strong interests in rare plant conservation, plant migration, and related topics.

Read more: Tony Reznicek

Virginia Hildebrandt

Bio:  I have been a lifelong gardener, but my first love was science. I graduated as a Registered Medical Technologist (Bacteriology) and worked in that field for 5 years.

Read more: Virginia Hildebrandt

Wolfegang Bonham

Web Site: http://www.peacelovelandscaping.com
Email:  wolfe@peacelovelandscapting,com
 
Although Wolfegang Bonham has had several careers, most recently his love of gardening and of design has impelled him to form a landscaping design/build company

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Speaker List

  • Anna Leggatt
  • Anne Spiegel
  • Barbara Cooper & Bella Seiden
  • Bill McNamara
  • Carole and Ian Bainbridge
  • Chris Gardner
  • Cliff Booker
  • Colleen Cirillo
  • Connor Smith
  • Darren Heimbecker
  • David Sellars
  • Deborah Hardwick
  • Elisabeth Zander
  • Garry Edwards
  • Geir Moen
  • Ger van den Beuken
  • Harry Jans
  • Ian Young
  • Inge Poot
  • James Eckenwalder
  • Jamie Ellison
  • Jay Akerley
  • Jenny Wainwright-Klein
  • Jerry Kral
  • Jim Jermyn
  • Jiri Papousek
  • John Lonsdale
  • John Mitchell
  • Julia Corden
  • Kenton Seth
  • Kevin Kavanagh
  • Laura Caddy
  • Laura Grant
  • Lisa Roper
  • Liz Knowles
  • Malcolm McGregor
  • Marilyn Cornwell
  • Marion Jarvie
  • Martin Galloway
  • Martin Hajman
  • Matt Mattus
  • Mike Bone
  • Miriam Goldberger
  • Niagara College Scholarship Recipient Jesse Mc Linton 2024
  • Nick Courtens
  • Oron Peri
  • Paul Spriggs
  • Paul Zammit
  • Peter Korn
  • Peter Zale
  • René Giguère
  • Robert Pavlis
  • Sean James
  • Sharon and John Bowler
  • Susan Chater
  • Todd Boland
  • Tom Freeth
  • Tony Reznicek
  • Virginia Hildebrandt
  • Wolfegang Bonham
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