July 25, 2024
![Trial Garden Open House 2024](https://assets.landscapeontario.com/assets/1721914596.Trial_Gardens_Open_House_2024-1200px.png)
Landscape Ontario Trial Garden Open House
Thursday, August 15, 2024 | 9:00 AM - Trade Professionals
Landscape Ontario, 7856 Fifth Line South, Milton
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-in9:20 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](/assets/1721917018.Jay_Cranstone-web.jpg)
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.
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](/assets/1721917056.Martin_Quinn-web.jpg)
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.
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](/assets/1721917085.Terry_Talsma-web.jpg)
Exceptional Perennials for the Ontario Landscape from Syngenta Flowers
Terry Talsma | Canada Business Manager, Syngenta Flowers
Terry Talsma | Canada Business Manager, Syngenta Flowers
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 SeedsGrowers 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, IncVIDEO SERIES