In addition to our Zoom and in-person meetings, BGC members are also invited to view past recorded presentations at your leisure (password-protected):
2026 PROGRAM
Please note that there is no meeting in January.
February 11, 2026: BGC Zoom Event: AGM & “What’s This in My Garden, Friend or Foe?” by Nancy MacDonald, member of the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton
Location: Virtual
Time: 7:00 pm EST.
This is a BGC Zoom event. Please note that we will first begin with the Annual General Meeting (AGM) prior to our main event.
Master Gardener Nancy Macdonald enjoys checking out the many garden bugs that visit her garden and asks herself which of them are welcome guests or unwelcome pests. She has realized that enticing beneficial bugs may mean having a few of those pests for them to hunt. Her garden incorporates plants which provide a habitat for beneficial bugs while creating an insectary garden to help with unwelcome guests. In other words, our choice of plants can help build a more resilient garden!
Members who are registered for 2026 will receive an invitation by email. To request or renew a membership or to arrange a guest pass, please refer to the Membership page.
February 25, 2026: Zoom Event hosted by the Pointe Claire Horticultural Society, details to come
Location: Virtual
Time: 7:30 pm EST.
BGC members are invited to this virtual talk hosted by the Pointe Claire Horticultural Society. Take advantage of an extra meeting this month thanks to a reciprocal agreement between our two clubs! Details to come.
Members who are registered for 2026 will receive an invitation by email. To request or renew a membership or to arrange a guest pass, please refer to the Membership page.
March 11, 2026: BGC Zoom Event: “Orchid Culture 101” by Nicole Roy, PHD, of the Orchidophiles de Montreal
Location: Virtual
Time: 7:00 pm EST.
This is a BGC Zoom event.
Nicole Roy has been a long-time member of Les Orchidophiles de Montréal and has received multiple awards from the American Orchid Society. She is passionate about cultivating rare orchid species and has a collection of over 700 orchids. In this presentation she will answer: what is an orchid? where to grow them? and how to grow them? Many practical tips will be provided to help us successfully grow orchids, all adapted to our Quebec climate. Note that OrchidExpo is scheduled for March 21-22, 2026! (The presentation text will be in French but the talk will be in English.)
Members who are registered for 2026 will receive an invitation by email. To request or renew a membership or to arrange a guest pass, please refer to the Membership page.
March 25, 2026: Zoom Event hosted by the Pointe Claire Horticultural Society, details to come
Location: Virtual
Time: 7:30 pm EST.
BGC members are invited to this virtual talk hosted by the Pointe Claire Horticultural Society. Take advantage of an extra meeting this month thanks to a reciprocal agreement between our two clubs! Details to come.
Members who are registered for 2026 will receive an invitation by email. To request or renew a membership or to arrange a guest pass, please refer to the Membership page.
April 8, 2026: In-Person Event: : “Native Plants and Biodiversity: Transforming our Gardens for the Future” by Kim Dooley
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
Kim Dooley is a Pointe-Claire gardener with a particular passion for native plants. She and her husband transformed their traditional suburban garden space into something else entirely: a biodiversity garden. Kim enjoys sharing what she has learned and encouraging others to include more native plants in their gardens to not only make them more beautiful but to also help nature. It is her belief that at this time the world desperately needs gardeners and that we can help nourish the earth by working in concert with her.
May 9, 2026: BGC Plant Sale
Location: Centennial Hall, 288 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: Doors open at 10AM. Sale ends at noon or when plants run out.
Don’t miss the garden club’s popular plant sale where we sell many different plants from our members’ gardens!
Arrive early as plants go quickly!!
May 13, 2026: BGC In-Person Meeting: “Health and Healing in the Garden” by Monika Giacomin
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
Community Herbalist and Educator, Monica Giacomin, is delighted to return to the Beaconsfield Garden Club to share the many benefits of gardening… from the physical and psychological to the emotional and spiritual! She will also introduce a variety of delicious and nutritious recipes using local wild food (often identified as weeds!). Learn how simple it is to prepare your own preventative medicine and tonics in order to manage your stressors, nourish your microbiome and bump up your immune system throughout the year!
September 9, 2026: BGC In-Person Meeting: “Supplying Seeds & Cultivating Community: Simplifying the Mystique of Starting, Saving, and Storing Seeds with the Macdonald Campus Seed Library” presented by Jennie Fallis, Liaison Librarian
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
Jennie Fallis is a liaison librarian at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. As part of her current role, Jennie coordinates the Macdonald Campus Seed Library, which provides free seeds and workshops available for all members of the McGill University and surrounding communities! In addition to hearing about the Seed Library, members will learn how to properly collect, store & start seeds.
October 14, 2026: BGC In-Person Meeting: “Bats and Their Conservation in the Anthropocene”, by Joanna Coleman, PHD
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
In keeping with Halloween, our meeting this month is all about bats! Bats are fantastic garden allies. They provide natural pest control by eating massive amounts of night-flying insects, such as mosquitoes, moths and beetles, and even help pollinate some plants. After introducing us to what makes bats weird, wonderful and essential to ecosystems and human well-being, Joanna will discuss some of the main threats to bat conservation, particularly the illegal and unsustainable bat trade, which is a main focus of her research and policy work.
November 11, 2026: In-Person Event: “Sharing Our Gardening Hits and Misses ”
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
Following the positive feedback on last year’s Hits and Misses meeting, we are holding an encore! We again ask members to share with their fellow gardeners what delighted them in their garden this year .. or what disappointed them. We look forward to another interesting and lively exchange!
December 9, 2026: In-Person Event: “Holiday Get-together & Pot-Luck” (Members only)
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
Please join us in celebrating the holiday season together and closing off the year! Members are asked to bring something to share, whether sweet or savory.
This is a members-only event.