Landscape Ontario Trial Garden Open House
Thursday, August 15, 2024 | 9:00 AM – Trade Professionals
Landscape Ontario, 7856 Fifth Line South, Milton

Landscape Ontario and the University of Guelph proudly invite you to tour this year’s Trial Garden. RSVP now to secure your spot.

Highlights

  • Echinacea trial: 40+ entries
  • Garden to vase cutflower trial
  • Main perennial trial: with 250+ entries
  • Annuals trial: landscape and container grown evaluation of annuals with 250+ entries
  • Overwintering, container grown wildflower study

Event schedule

9:00 a.m. – Doors open/check-in
9:20 a.m. – Welcome and start of speaker program
11:15 a.m. – Trial Garden Tours

RSVP HERE
After the tour, stick around for an afternoon panel discussion on battery operated equipment from 1:30-3:00 p.m. REGISTER HERE.

Speakers

Jay Cranstone
Pollinator Gardens and Meadows in Guelph’s Urban Landscape
Jay Cranstone | Natural Areas Stewardship Technologist Forestry and Sustainable Landscapes, Parks City of Guelph
Jay’s presentation will introduce you to Guelph’s naturalization programs and work the Natural Areas Stewardship does, then focus on the city’s Native Herbaceous program, which grows over 5,000 native wildflowers and grasses each year in the greenhouses at Riverside Park from seed collected within the city. Jay will highlight the challenges opportunities planning, implementing, and managing pollinator gardens and meadows in the city landscape.
 

 

Martin Quinn
Unearthing Possibilities
Martin Quinn | Retired parks supervisor

A look at the new the partnership between Landscape Ontario and Communities in Bloom Ontario and the possibilities we have working together for the future.

 

Terry Talsma
Exceptional Perennials for the Ontario Landscape from Syngenta Flowers
Terry Talsma | Canada Business Manager, Syngenta Flowers

 

 

map 2024 TRIAL GARDEN MAP
plant list 2024 PLANT LIST AND MAP

 

Participating breeders and distributors

American Takii, Ball FloraPlant, Benary, Danziger, Darwin Perennials, De Vroomen, Dümmen Orange, Jelitto, Kieft Seed, PanAmerican Seed, Pacific Plug and Liner, Proven Winners, Sakata Seed Corporation, Syngenta Flowers, Terra Nova, ThinkPlants, Van Belle, Van Hemert & Co., William Dam Seeds

Growers and suppliers

Colonial Florists Ltd, ICL-Group/Specialty Fertilizers, Linwell Gardens Ltd, Ed Sobkowich Greenhouses Ltd, JVK (Jack Van Klaveren Ltd), MCP Manufacturing, Geo Sant and Sons Greenhouses, SunGro Horticulture Inc, The HC Companies, Walters Gardens, Inc

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