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Vol. 43 No. 8
PHOTO: liz mckeen
September 11, 2015
Horticulture comes home to the Horticulture Building By Lynn Armstrong
The area east of the relocated and restored Horticulture Building in Lansdowne Park is designed as an ethno-botanical garden. There are 25 raised beds, seven containing native plants of significance to the Aboriginal community. The remaining 18 are educational demonstration beds designed to highlight food production, Ottawa’s horticultural heritage and a sampling of such Ottawa garden experiences as the Fletcher Wildlife Garden at the Central Experimental Farm. Last winter the City approached the Ottawa Horticultural Society for help in designing and installing the plants in the 18 non-aboriginal planting beds. President Jamie Robertson and I developed themes for bed designs, which I then applied to detailed designs for each bed. There is a Peter Rabbit bed for the children, a square-foot gardening bed, a sunflower bed, a pumpkin/summer squash bed, a bed of new annual varieties, a dill pickle bed and an Ottawa festivals bed. Four beds have been combined in a potager. A “school gardening” bed represents the school gardening movement in the early 1900s. Karen Moore generously provided hard-to-find tomato plants for a bed of heritage tomatoes
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and basil. Another is designed as a pollinator garden like those at the Fletcher Wildlife Gardens, and Sandra Garland was a tremendous resource in selecting plants from the Fletcher nursery and even helping to plant them. As the gardens were not built until July 10, the focus this year has been on annual flowers and vegetables, many from seedlings donated by Ottawa Farmers’ Market vendors. After just over one month and with lots of watering by Richard, an OSEG employee, the beans are in flower and the first crop of radishes and greens has been harvested for a local food bank, Centre 507. In early August, a local children’s food camp planted the last four beds with beans, beets and lettuce – also destined for Centre 507. So if you are at Lansdowne to visit the Farmers’ Market, please wander to the east side of the Horticulture Building and check out the new garden. Help us celebrate the return of horticulture to the Horticulture Building as it marks its 101st year. Lynn Armstrong is a Glebe resident and member of the Ottawa Horticultural Society.
WHAT’S INSIDE
Sept. 16.................. Friends of the Farm AGM
Abbotsford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36–37
................................ Central Experimental Farm, 7 p.m.
Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15–17
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–13
Sept. 16–20............ CityFolk Festival 2015, Lansdowne Park
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26–27
Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3
Sept. 16–20............ Ottawa International Animation Festival
Councillor’s Report . . . . . . . . . 33
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
................................ Bytowne Cinema
Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38–39
MPP’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29–30
Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22–23
GCA/GACA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Glebe BIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
GNAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40–41
Sept. 19–20............ Glebe Fine Art Show, GCC, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Sept. 20.................. Glebe House Tour, 1–4 p.m. Sept. 22.................. GCA Meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. Sept. 23.................. GNAG AGM, GCC, 7 p.m. Sept. 26–27............ Quiltco Show and Sale, GCC, 10 a.m–4 p.m. Oct. 3....................... Panda Game, TD Place, 1:00 p.m. Oct. 22.................... YouthFIT! launch, GCC, 7 p.m. Oct. 28.................... GACA AGM, GCC 7 p.m.
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