Award Winning Master Gardeners
2025 Ecology Ottawa’ Nature Champion Award:
2023 Ecology Ottawa’s Nature Champion Award:
Governor General Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers:
2025 Ontario Service Awards
Adair Heuchan – 5 years
Rebecca Last- 20 years
Claire McCaughey – 5 years
Kelly Noel – 20 years
Josie Padzior – 15 years
Trowel Talk Newsletter
Our September issue is out!
ARTICLES Include: Stinzenplanten: A European Tradition Springing up Across Ontario, Identifying Birds in the Garden, Crickets, Songsters of Summer, Witch Hazel – Hamamelis virginiana
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These gardening information documents have been written and peer-reviewed by our members. Each document has detailed information about one plant, one pest, or disease.
The Alcove Garden
Learn about the Alcove Garden at Kitchissippi United Church – a native garden tended by Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton members
In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators and manage water.