More Gardening Sites

Garden Ontario

The official website of the Ontario Horticultural Association, the umbrella organization for all the Horticultural Societies across Ontario. This website is a rich source of information and offers many resources for garden clubs including the OHA Trillium Newsletter.

Gardening Calendar

The official website of the Ontario Horticultural Association, the umbrella organization for all the Horticultural Societies across Ontario.

This website is a rich source of information and offers many resources for garden clubs including the OHA Trillium Newsletter.

Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton

Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton is a group of volunteers in the Ottawa area provide unbiased horticultural advice and expertise to home gardeners, at no charge.

We encourage good gardening practices. This website is another rich source of information and links related to varied aspects of gardening in Ottawa-Carleton.

Mark Cullen’s Website

The official website of Canada’s gardening guru, Mark Cullen, is a rich repository of gardening information with more 10,000 answers to gardening questions. Mark publishes a free monthly newsletter, now with over 20,000 subscriptions.

Master Gardeners of Ontario

An independent non-profit organization dedicated to helping home gardeners, are experienced gardeners who have studied horticulture extensively and continue to upgrade their skills through technical training. This website maintains a comprehensive list of links to websites related to all aspects and gardening.

District 2 : OHA

This is a subset of the OHA website given above. It gives news and resources specific to District 2 in which the West Carleton Garden Club & Horticultural Society resides.

Communities in Bloom

A Canadian non-profit organization committed to fostering civic pride, environmental responsibility and beautification through community involvement and the challenge of a national program, with focus on enhancing green spaces in communities. There are sections specific to each province.

Eckman Gardening Resources

Eckman is a UK based supplier of gardening products, hardware, gardening supplies, outdoor living, and much more. This company is similar to Lee Valley but specializes almost exclusively in gardening supplies and hardware. Their website offers an excellent Resources Section with multipart articles on “The Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Organic Food” and “An Introduction to Gardening for Health and Wellbeing”. Other topics in this Section will be added in the future.

Canadian Living Magazine

The Canadian Living online magazine gardening section offers many useful articles and guides covering all aspects of gardening for the home gardener.

Canada’s Local Gardener

Formerly “Ontario Gardener Magazine”. A surprisingly rich source of information specific to Ontario gardening. Noteworthy is the extensive photo Plant & Garden Guide. This site also covers Western Canada with many overlapping gardening concerns.

Landscape Ontario

This resource rich website is particularly useful regarding the design and planning of gardens. Many answers are given in the FAQ and ‘ask an expert’ sections.

Carp Garden Centre

A family-run nursery in West Ottawa that offers a fantastic selection of annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees. Located in the beautiful village of Carp, Ontario.