In addition to our Zoom and in-person meetings, BGC members are also invited to view past recorded presentations at your leisure (password-protected):
2025 PROGRAM
Planning of the 2025 Program continues, please check back!
Please note that there is no meeting in January.
February 12, 2025: BGC Zoom Event: AGM & “The Benefits of Pocket Forests and Pocket Meadows” presented by Joyce Hostyn of Little Forests, Kingston
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.
Today we hear from Joyce Hostyn, an adjunct professor at Queen’s University and key person behind the Little Forests movement in Kingston. Joyce will present the concepts behind Pocket Forests and Pocket Meadows, and how these compact but diverse spaces benefit the environment.
Members who are registered for 2025 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 12, 2025: BGC Zoom Event: “Makeovers for Tired Gardens and Tired Gardeners” presented by Mary Shearman Reid, owner of Green Thumb Garden Centre in Nepean, Ontario
Location: Virtual
Time: 7:00 pm EST.
This is a BGC Zoom event.
In addition to owning Green Thumb Garden Centre, Mary Shearman Reid is a CLHM (Certified Landscape Horticulturist Manager) and a member of Landscape Ontario as well as a volunteer Master Gardener. At this session Mary asks the question: Who is more tired – the garden or the gardeners? We’ll look at how to bring our gardens back to life, one step at a time, and how to make our gardens more pleasing and manageable … and at the same time have some fun while we’re at it!
Members who are registered for 2025 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 9, 2025: In-Person Event: : “Yoga for Gardening Fitness” presented by Fiona Louise Griffiths, yoga instructor and RN
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
As we eagerly look forward to the start of a new gardening season, yoga instructor and RN Fiona Griffiths will speak to us about how Yoga can improve our gardening fitness. She will use both presentation and demonstration to help us understand how Yoga benefits our fitness as gardeners, and will use a mix of chair and standing exercises for us to try. She will also provide hand-outs and fitness links so that we can continue these exercises on our own throughout the gardening season.
May 10, 2025: BGC Plant Sale
Location: Centennial Hall, 288 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED
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!!
May14, 2025: In-Person Event: “Peonies”
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
Details to come.
September 10, 2025: In-Person Event: “All About Garlic”
Location: Herb Linder Annex, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield
Time: 7:30 pm EST. Please arrive by 7:15.
Details to come.