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104th Annual Convention to be held in Barrie Ontario
The Annual Ontario Horticultural Association Convention will he held August 13 and 14 at Georgian College in Barrie Ontario. This convention highlights include competitions in design, horticulture, photography and art as well as tours in the Barrie area showing delegates gardens and horticultural related points of interest. For more information click here.
Societies Are Keeping Ontario Beautiful
There are more than 250 Horticultural Societies in Ontario working on projects to keep Ontario beautiful. The projects include a wide variety of activities like beautifying local parks, planting boxes in downtown areas, and creating and maintaining public gardens around government buildings, hospitals, health and hospice centres. Examples of these projects can be found here
Trillium Newsletter
The Summer 2010 edition of the Association Newsletter is now available.
This issue contains articles on:
- - Introducing the New Directors
- - Successful Gardening Show
- - Ideas for Growing Membership
- - Growing Roses in a New Era
- - Collingwood Society’s Arboretum
- - Meet the 2nd VP Candidates
Around Ontario
- Harriston and District Horticultural Society receives the Outstanding Organization Award
- Unemployed Help Centre Community Garden assisted by The Greater Windsor Horticultural Society
- OHA Wreath at RGB
- Restoration of Glimmer Memorial Gardens,by the Tottenham & District Horticultural Society
- Bolton Mill Park Tree Planting & Wetlands Enhancement Projectby the Bolton District Horticultural Society
- Planting the The Ayr CenotaphAyr Horticultural Society
Youth
Our Youth members are our future. Learn more about our Youth program.
Click here for Youth Newsletters
OHA In Action
Volunteers are the Heart of OHA
Do you enjoy nothing better than getting a little dirt on your hands? Enjoying vegetables you’ve grown yourself? Walking through the garden in the early morning to see what’s blooming today? Lending a hand to restore an urban waterway?
If the answer is "yes," you should consider being a volunteer with the Ontario Horticultural Association. Through our local Societies, OHA is active across Ontario - improving urban landscapes, giving senior’s residences a hand with gardening, planting roadsides with wild flowers, planting trees in river valleys... the list of OHA activities is unlimited.
Volunteers are the backbone of everything we do. Whether you can help organize a flower show, do the bookkeeping, work on an environmental or community beautification project… or just share your favorite muffins, your assistance is most welcome.
Contact the nearest District or Society to find out how you can be an OHA volunteer.
BACK THEN...
For over 100 years, the members of the Ontario Horticultural Association have been keeping Ontario beautiful. Imagine the impact when those 35,000 members put their minds to conserving rainwater!
