Book a Speaker
Contact [email protected] to get further information or to book a speaker.
Bulbs for All Seasons
Discover the many types of bulbs you can use in your garden during various seasons. Bulbs require specific growing condition, but they can be quite versatile: grow them in containers, force their blooming in winter, plant them lasagna style in the fall for continuous blooms next spring. We will explore the world of less common but beautiful bulbs you’ll want to add to your garden. |
Butterfly Gardens & Design
The Ojibway have a creation story for butterflies -- delightful, graceful creatures which most gardeners love to host. Get the tips for designing a garden to successfully attract butterflies, including site requirements and planting suggestions. Learn the specific requirements of adult butterflies and caterpillars. Learn about the butterfly gardens in Schomberg and Mono Mills, Ontario. |
Creating Spring Planters
Ready to get rid of grey winter days? Learn how to design a colourful and cheerful spring planter to welcome the brighter spring days. Discover basic principles of planter design, colour theory and a list of different varieties of spring plants to create an eye-catching planter. Want to make it pollinator friendly? Suggestions for creating a spring native plant container are also offered. |
Creating Holiday Centrepieces
Start your holiday decorating by learning how to craft your own unique centerpiece. With the focus on using a variety of seasonal plants, you will learn the principles and skills to create your own holiday arrangement and do it again for other occasions. This is also available in a workshop format for 12 people. Style your centerpiece with additional textural elements to make a one-of-a-kind design that is eco-friendly. You’ll leave with a special holiday arrangement to enjoy throughout the season. |
Designing Your Urban Potager Garden
Love flowers but don’t want to give up a vegetable garden. Why not have both in a potager garden of your own? Learn what a potager garden means, some of the history and the design elements of the potager garden, including site selection and preparation, companion planting and the use of planting schedules to optimize your harvest. |
Gardening With Herbs
Learn how to garden with herbs. Topics include: the history of herbs; types of herbs; growing requirements; styles of gardening: inground herb garden and container gardens. There are many benefits of herbs, including the benefits for our pollinators. This is also available in a workshop format for 15 people. |
Gardening on a Budget: Seed Saving & Fall and Winter Propagation
Learn how to grow more garden plants for low or no cost. Discover seed types (hybrid, native, heirloom) and get tips for collecting and saving them for future seed sowing. Learn how to start seeds in the fall and winter. Grow more plants at a fraction of the cost by dividing plants and taking cuttings. If available, receive and or plant native seeds to take home. |
How to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden
Our Pollinators are in Peril - What can we do to help them? Participants will learn how to attract pollinators to their gardens. The presentation will cover basic pollinator needs such as food sources, nesting area, beneficial landscape features and the importance of including native plants in our gardens. Note: This is one in a series of pollinator presentations. Other presentations include: Planning and Planting a Pollinator Garden. Planning a Front Yard Pollinator Garden |
Made in the Shade - garden design & plant selection for shady spots
In this presentation we’ll shed a little light on gardening in the shade to help you understand how to get the most out of the darker corners of your garden. |
Seed Germination
In this presentation, you’ll learn the benefits of starting your plants from seed. Get many tips for successful seed germination, while optimizing plant varieties at a lower cost. Topics include: seed selection, economical materials, germination requirements and methods for transplanting your seedling. Seed germination is also a fun learning opportunity for children! If available, receive seeds to take away and start at home. |
Seed germination – Starting Native Plants from Seed
Get a head start on spring by growing your own native plants from seed. Many native plants won’t grow without special treatment of the seeds. Learn the basics of native seed starting as well as the specific seed treatment requirements for specific native plants. Fall and winter propagation of native plants will also be explained. If available, take native plant seeds home to get a head start on your garden planting. |
Square Foot Gardening
Square Foot Gardening combines French intensive (1890’s) and organic gardening. It utilizes all the basic principles of vegetable gardening but it optimizes space and work effort. The key benefits are reduced maintenance, succession planting, companion planting and crop rotation. This gardening method can also help extend the gardening season. |
The Four-Season Garden
While planting a garden is not an overly taxing chore, planning for a four-season garden takes a little more thinking and organizing. In this presentation you’ll learn how to use basic graphic design principles coupled with plant suggestions to ensure your gardens are filled with color and interest throughout all four seasons. |
Vegetable Gardening
Planning Your Vegetable Garden
This presentation describes planning your vegetable garden, including requirements for site selection and gardening methods. There will be a review of different vegetable growing requirements and how to select the right vegetables for your specific growing conditions. |
Growing Vegetables from Seed
Learn the requirements for growing vegetable plants from seed. This presentation will describe the germination process and discuss which vegetables need to be started indoors versus outdoors. The importance of frost dates will also be reviewed as well as economical and eco-friendly seed starting methods. |
Small Space Vegetable Gardening
Do you dream of having your own vegetable garden but have limited space? This presentation will help you design and learn creative techniques to plant a bountiful vegetable garden in small spaces. |
Winter Holiday Wreath Making
Start your outdoor winter decorating by crafting your own unique holiday wreath during this 2-hr. workshop. With the focus on using fresh greenery, you will learn the skills to create your own wreath and do it again for other occasions. Style your wreath with additional textural elements to make a one-of-a-kind design that is eco-friendly. You’ll leave with a fragrant holiday decoration to enjoy throughout the season. Maximum 12 participants |