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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We’ve had a special request from the Barrhaven Food Cupboard Garden, a volunteer operation which grows fresh produce for the Barrhaven Food Cupboard, for donations of small square nursery pots – 4 inch, 6 inch — as they are running low on supplies, especially after giveaways of vegetable seedlings, including to the BGC Annual Plant Sale last week. Small, rectangular nursery pots with curved corners such as used by PC/Loblaws and Fresh Farms are also usable for the BFC Garden’s growing operations, but they do not need any round pots. 

Drop-off Location: Barrhaven Food Cupboard Garden next to the Barrhaven United Church3013 Jockvale Rd (Off of back/side parking lot)

                              Please place pots near or in the BFC Garden shed

Types of Pots Needed:  4 or 6 inch small square nursery pots, including 6-pack containers

                                       4 or 6 inch small rectangular nursery pots with curved corners

                                       (See photos below)

If you have any questions about donating the pots to the BFC Garden, please contact Kathy Saideman at theopenwindow1@gmail.com

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Benefits of Joining:

      • 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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2026 – 2027 Membership

(September 1st, 2026 to August 31st, 2027)

$20 for an Individual Membership

$25 for a Family Membership

Online Membership Form

Printable 2026-27 Membership Form

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2026-2027 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 09/26  – The Goth Garden: Venom in Bloom

Join us as Chloe Hurst explores the dark beauty of poisonous plants, gothic aesthetics and the moody allure of the Goth Garden. Blending horticulture, the macabre and atmospheric storytelling, Chloe invites audiences into a shadowy garden where danger and beauty bloom side by side.

October 14/26  – Reachable Fruit in the Ottawa Area

Join us as Mary Sherman Reid, owner of Green Thumb Garden Centre, talks about choices we can happily make to grow and harvest berries, cherries and more in our urban gardens.

November 23/26  – 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 7:00 pm at the Barrhaven United Church (3013 Jockvale Road).

December 09/26 Members’ Holiday Season Celebration  (Details to follow) 

January 13/27 – The Garden of Regrets (ZOOM PRESENTATION)

Meet the plants you’ll wish you’d never planted. Learn how to avoid them (before you do), to live with them (if, sadly, you have them) or how to love them (if you must). Join us for this highly visual and popular talk by Helen Battersby, Master Gardener, Garden Writer, speaker and author.

February 10/27 – Whistling Gardens – Then and Now (ZOOM PRESENTATION)

Darren Heimbecker, owner and creative force behind Whistling Gardens, will take us back on a journey of the development of these botanical gardens. Officially opened in 2012 as “Canada’s Newest Horticultural Playground”, Whistling Gardens features 20 landscaped acres with classical garden styles, some of which are inspired by the old Renaissance gardens of Europe, including the Palace of Versailles. The conifer collection contains approximately 1200 different species and cultivars. The donated peony collection features approximately 1300 varieties. Both are considered to be the largest public collections in North America! In total there are nearly 5000 different plants in one of Ontario’s only privately operated Botanical Gardens.

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 10/27 – The Secret World of Lichens

Join Troy McMullin, Research Scientist from the Canadian Museum of Nature, to learn about the often overlooked but surprisingly complex world of lichens. He will provide a general introduction, discuss their many ecological functions and show how they are used in medicine, science, as dyes, and in space! Troy will also highlight rare and interesting lichens in the Ottawa area. Come and appreciate the small things in life!

April 14/27 – TBA

May 12/27 – Q & A with Gardening Experts Mary Anne Jackson-Hughes and Elizabeth Brown

Now is the perfect time to get your gardening questions answered! Whether you’re looking for tips on flowers, vegetables, shrubs, trees, seasonal garden care, turf or ground cover problem solving, club members Mary Anne and Elizabeth will be on hand to share their knowledge and expertise. Bring your questions and enjoy an informative and engaging evening with fellow gardening enthusiasts.

May 29/27 – Annual Plant Sale: Garden Club Fundraiser: Larkin House (9:00 am -12:00 pm)

June 09/27 – Club Members’ Summer Celebration (Details to follow)

Spring/Summer 2027  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.

Fall 2023

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.

Barrhaven garden club March 2019

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