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Founded in 1977, the Club is committed to promoting interest and education in all areas of horticulture. Join us and meet fellow gardeners who share an interest in or a passion for gardening. Learn new skills and share your experience with others. Membership is open to all persons interested in gardening, regardless of skill level or experience.
Although meetings are back to being in-person events, specific meetings may still be held virtually via Zoom. In-person meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month at 7:30 pm at Larkin House, located at 76 Larkin Drive (adjacent to the tennis courts). Occasionally special meetings or events may occur on other days or at other times or at other locations. Please consult the Agenda below for the current year’s event schedule as well as to double-check as to whether a specific meeting event will be held in-person or virtually via Zoom.
Please note that Non-members (guests) may attend any meeting for a nominal guest fee of $5.00 per meeting (see the Agenda below for additional details).
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Benefits of Joining:
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- Monthly learning from great, knowledgeable speakers and teachers
- Discounts at select Garden Centres
- Annual plant sale and exchanges
- Time and friendship with wonderful like-minded gardeners
- Garden tours and social outings for fun and inspiration
- Two potluck dinners
- Christmas Holiday Florals with Mill Street Florist
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gardens4everybody Podcast
Members Elizabeth and Mary Anne host this podcast where they discuss permaculture and principals of organic gardening in the Ottawa area using their experience from working in the Barrhaven Food Cupboard garden. Their aim is to empower local gardeners, especially those new to this climate or just to gardening itself.
Search gardens4everybody or use the link below.
https://rss.com/podcasts/gardens4everybody/
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2025 – 2026 Membership
(September 1st, 2025 to August 31st, 2026)
$20 for an Individual Membership
$25 for a Family Membership
Printable 2025-26 Membership Form
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2025-2026 Agenda
Meetings are held in person except for the months of January and February when they will be presented virtually via Zoom (see details below).
Non-members (guests) may attend any meeting event for a nominal guest fee of $5.00 per meeting.
- In-person meeting events: Guest fees can be paid at the door.
- Virtual (Zoom) meeting events: In order for Non-members (guests) to receive the relevant Zoom link, a Guest Fee Remittance Form (link below) MUST be filled out, submitted and paid, NO LATER than 24 HOURS PRIOR to any Zoom meeting event. Guest fees may be paid by E-transfer or by phone as detailed in the Guest Fee Remittance Form (link below).
Guest Fee Remittance Form
September 10/25 – 90 Days of Flowering Bulbs
Planting bulbs is a great way to add tons of colour to garden beds for the spring season. There are a huge variety of bulbs available and most of these should be planted in the fall. Mary Sherman Reid of Green Thumb Garden Centre will share her knowledge of bulbs to provide 90 days of spring bloom enjoyment, from April till the end of June. She will focus on how to plan your bulb garden, including how to select, plant and maintain these bulbs.
October 08/25 – Soil Amendments to Improve Plant Growth and Change Soil Properties
Soil amendments are materials added to soil to improve its physical properties, structure and fertility, ultimately enhancing plant growth and health. These materials can be organic or inorganic and are used to address issues like poor drainage, water retention, nutrient deficiencies and pH imbalances. Lynne Evenson, Master Gardener, will explain soil amendments, their benefits and when to use them.
November 24/25 – Holiday Florals with Mill Street Florist
Join us for our annual charity fundraising holiday event with Jessica Barrett and Sophiane Laib of Mill Street Florist. Watch this amazing duo demonstrating how to construct a variety of holiday floral arrangements and learn design tips to create your own pieces at home. Additionally, the holiday creations will be raffled off and you could be a lucky winner of one of their spectacular arrangements. Net proceeds from this fundraiser will be donated to the Barrhaven Food Cupboard so please join us and bring family and friends to help us break our record for the donation to the Barrhaven Food Cupboard! Please Note: This event will be taking place on a Monday night beginning at 6:30 pm at the Barrhaven United Church (3013 Jockvale Road).
December 17/25 – Club Members’ Holiday Season Celebration (Note New Date – Details to Follow)
January 14/26 – Meet the Mosses (ZOOM PRESENTATION)
In the plant world, mosses are “strong, sensitive” types. They cover enormous areas, are tough enough to grow without soil or roots, and can survive long droughts and winters (heck, even glaciation!). Yet, they’re also individually tiny and delicate enough to signal early warnings of environmental change. In the urban and natural spaces that we know and love, mosses make themselves at home on soil, wood, rock and a huge array of human-made stand-ins. It is sometimes hard to learn about them in standard field guides, though! Jennifer Doubt, Curator of Botany at the Canadian Museum of Nature, will provide us with a guided opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the most fascinating plants on the planet.
February 11/26 – Native Plants and Pollinators (ZOOM PRESENTATION)
Elizabeth Sheehy will discuss the vital role of pollinators in our ecosystem and the part played by native plants in this relationship. She will also talk about how we can begin introducing more native plants into our gardens and will provide some local resources. The Butterflyway Project, a citizen-based movement growing highways of habitat for bees and butterflies across Canada, will also be introduced.
Virtual (Zoom) meeting events: In order for Non-members (guests) to receive the relevant Zoom link, a Guest Fee Remittance Form (link below) MUST be filled out, submitted and paid, NO LATER than 24 HOURS PRIOR to any Zoom meeting event. Guest fees may be paid by E-transfer or by phone as detailed in the Guest Fee Remittance Form (link below).
Guest Fee Remittance Form
March 11/26 – Peonies: The Queen of Flowers
Blaine Marchand, gardener and author, will look at the myths and truths about peonies in your garden. He will discuss the different peony forms and how, with careful selection, you can achieve seven weeks of fragrant blooming that will astonish your family and friends. He will also discuss the latest trends in peonies.
April 08/26 – The Urban Potager: A Field to Table Experience
Think rainbows of colour in the saladier and beyond. Crisp lettuces, Asian greens, sweet tomatoes and blooms. In this presentation, Odette McIntyre, Master Gardener, will talk about how to create an attractive living space full of vegetables, ornamentals, herbs and structures in an urban setting where space is a constraint. Grow beautiful blooms, unique vegetables and greens to enhance your table and thrill your guests. Find out about vertical gardening, best practices, found objects and more. An exciting, wide-ranging, transforming way to look at your garden.
May 13/26 – Notes on a Japanese Garden
In a Japanese-themed garden, a small space holds big ideas about designing with plants, stone, water and “ma”, the all-important space in between. Part garden travelogue, part gardening experiment, this lecture delivered by Barbara Sibbald, author and Master Gardener, aims to inspire.
May 30/26 – Annual Plant Sale: Garden Club Fundraiser – Larkin House (9:00 am – 12:00 pm)
June 10/26 – Club Members’ Summer Celebration (Details to Follow)
Spring/Summer 2026 – Garden Tours and Outings (Details to Follow)
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Barrhaven Garden Club in the Media
The Barrhaven Garden Club would like to thank the publisher of the Neighbours of West Barrhaven and Cedarhill magazine for their story on our Garden Club in March 2024.
Rob Stuart is a member of the Barrhaven Garden Club, a volunteer at the Rock Garden at the Central Experimental Farm (CEF) and the Co-President of the Ottawa Valley Rock Garden & Horticultural Society. He and Mark LeBlond, another CEF volunteer, installed the Demonstration Crevice Garden at the CEF with the intent of making visitors to the gardens aware of this Rock Gardening technique for smaller spaces.
Please see page 6 of the Friends of the Farm Newsletter (link below) for more on the Demonstration Crevice Garden at the CEF.
The Barrhaven Garden Club would like to thank the publisher of the Neighbours of West Barrhaven and Cedarhill and Neighbours of Stonebridge magazines for their story on our Garden Club in March 2019.
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