The 16^th Annual Successful Gardening Show Is A Celebration of Growing Passions.

From beginner to expert, senior to junior, There is something for everyone at the Successful Gardening Show ! 

Tour the Amazing Model Home. Built By: 

Take a lesson from the experts! Quality Engineered Homes is Canada’s leading “Precision Built” Home Builder and they built the Amazing Model Home this year. Visitors could pick up design tips as they toured this beautifully decorated, finely crafted Home. If you wanted, you could even have purchased this model at the show!

Time to Enjoy the Passions of Gardening 

The 2008

Helping You Grow Theatre.

Visitors came to enjoy fantastic FREE information seminars from gardening experts on the Garden Stage. 

Seminars took place throughout the four days of the show. 

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Our Garden Experts are Passionate about their Lawns & Gardens.  

Let them Inspire your Growing Passions as well.

Mark Cullen The Garden Primer – An Organic Approach Garden Guru Mark Cullen gave us an organic approach to gardening.
Denis Flanagan Healthy Lawns & Gardens Garden Expert Denis Flanagan showed us how to get our best healthy lawn and garden.
Ed Lawrence The Art of Pruning CBC Radio’s Ed Lawrence showed us the right steps to pruning so that we could have a beautiful backyard.
Art Drysdale Fewer Newer Plants – But What’s Good Art helped visitors discover which new plants will best work for you.
Shauna Dobbie The Use of Colour To Make a Statement/ The Good, The Bad & The Bugly/ How to Get Your Garden Into a Magazine Ontario Gardener Living Magazine’s Editor showed us great gardening tips from the use of colour to what to do with those pesky bugs.   All colours are beautiful and they all go together in some way.  Shauna helped us decide how to put colours together in our garden for the total look that we wanted.   You can’t have a garden without bugs! Good bugs, bad bugs and bugs your garden can  live without – all are fascinating when you delve into their private lives.        Shauna talked about gardeners she’s met, gardens she’s visited and how to use photography to sell your garden to a magazine.
Terry Kennedy Orchids To Pot Terry Kennedy of Orchids In Our Tropics, took visitors deep into the world of orchid culture as she demonstrated using live plants the different potting mediums.	.
Frank Kershaw Gardening for Problem Sites/ Plants for Tight Spots -     Many homeowners, irrespective of garden size, often find themselves dealing with sites that are either too wet, too dry, too shady, too steep, etc. This informative presentation provided suggestions as to the many useful and show plants that can thrive in such conditions. -     Homeowners in urban areas may be faced with the narrow, shallow backyards. Such sites, while challenging, can benefit by creative design techniques with plants and garden structures to make these sites interesting and appealing. This presentation shared many of these creative ideas.	.
Marjorie Mason 'Green' Gardening: Gardening to Protect the Environment Marjorie Mason of Mason Hogue Gardens was on hand to discuss ways to choose plants wisely, conserving water and energy, how to eliminate pesticides.  She also showed us how you can grow some of your own food even in a small space.
Belinda Gallagher  It’s a Jungle out there Belinda Gallagher entertained the audience with her trials and tribulations as a gardener	.
Cristina da Silva Made for Condo Gardening: Myths and Misinformation Toronto Star Columnist Cristina da Silva showed visitors practical ways to garden for condos and small spaces.   And More!
Frank Ferragine Green Easy Gardening.....Kermit the frog may say it's not easy being green but Frankie Flowers thinks it is.  Creating a garden that both benefits you and the environment is the key to good gardening.  From free fertilizers, kitchen ready organic controls to being more waterwise Frankie Flowers made being a Green Gardener an easy one!!

Fly Away To Beautiful Floral Expressions

The Ontario Horticultural Association's
Floral Design & Plant Competitions

The Ontario Horticultural Association’s Floral Design & Plant Show Competition was an exercise in creative flowery flair. Enjoy hundreds of exotic plant and floral stylings in this long running celebration of elegance ad imagination.  The annual competition is open to members of the OHA and the 2008 theme was FLY AWAY. You didn’t want to miss a single entry. If you are interested in expressing yourself florally, the deadline for submissions for next year is March 1, 2009.  For more information on entry submission for next year, contact Liisa Wolfgram for more information at 905-820-5606 or e-mail: liisa.stevens@gmail.com

Forms to Enter the OHA Plant and Flower Competition

Prepare To Be Amazed

Things Appear Impossible

A World Of Warmth Awaits

Paradise Garden Landscape Competition

Ontario’s finest Landscape & Design Specialists transported you into Summer during our yearly Landscape Design Competition.  Visitors could enjoy over 15,000 sq. ft. of dazzling displays of backyard artistry, this year themed “Backyard Entertaining” that’s designed to inspire your garden dreams.  You then were able to be the judge and determine the winner, we challenged you to just choose one.

Congratulations to all our Past Winners!

2007 “Best In Show”: Cypress Landscaping

2006 “Best In Show”: FSI Landscape Supply  

2005 “Best In Show”: Vista Groundworks

2004 “Best In Show”: Vista Groundworks      

2003 “Best In Show”: Premier Landscape

2002 “Best In Show”: Let’s Landscape

Time For Learning

Kid’s Grow Green

Education can be fun and little sprouts will enjoy everything from garden tricks to energy saving tips in the New Kid’s Zone.  Easy step-by-step instructions are just the beginning to planting a life-long interest in green living. Plant the seeds and watch their interest grow. 

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Discover Biodiversity With The Royal Ontario Museum!

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Adventures With Wine will Expose ‘the Truth’ at Naked Wine Tasting each day at 2:00 pm in Hall 4, Booth R08.
(p.s. It’s the wine that’s naked, not the guests!)

Time To Get Ready For Spring Gardening

The Gardener’s Dream Marketplace

Looking for the latest trends or greatest garden products? The Gardener’s Marketplace holds all the answers for your garden needs. Thousands of plant and garden products from retailers, craftsmen and artists were awaiting to be discovered by YOU…bulbs, seeds, hard-to-find tools, plant care products, ornaments, lighting, garden décor, gifts, books accessories and much, much more.