June 2024 Newsletter – Petawawa Horticultural Society

Ahhhhh summer! Do you have all your veggies planted yet? June – the month when early spring flowers give way to the longer-flowering summer selection of plants. It’s also a good time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labour before you get busy with hiking, camping, water sports, and the like. While the PHS stands down their monthly member meetings and speakers until September, your executive is still hard at work planning for the upcoming months.

Recent Activity

10% Discount on Gardening Related Products

Great news!!!!

If you haven’t already seen it on our Facebook page, for anyone wishing to order some quality garden tools and support the horticultural society, Dubois Agrinovation, a supplier of quality horticultural gardening and agricultural products, is offering a 10% discount for our members.

Please make sure to indicate that you were referred by the Petawawa Horticultural Society.

The discount code can be found in your email for the “June 2024 Newsletter”

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Membership

So far, for the 2024/25 fiscal year, the PHS has (re-)signed up a total of 158 individual and corporate members. If you, as a member, would like to volunteer for any activities, we would love to hear from you. Please email with any thoughts or ideas. Alternatively, you are encouraged to join and participate on our Facebook page.

Community Gardens

Jack van Gemeren has confirmed that the garden plots are fully booked again for this year. For those of you using the plots, please ensure that the gate is locked and the combination on the lock, spun to ensure the security and safety of the gardens for everyone. Thank you very much.

Plant Sale & Memorial Tree Planting

The plant sale on the May long weekend was very successful, raising $1300 for the Society plus obtaining several new members. In addition, the remaining plants have been available at the home of yours truly (Theresa) since that time, and have raised an additional $130. We will be having another sale on…

Saturday, June 15th, 0900-1200 at the Heritage Village

If you have plants you are willing to share for the sale, that would be greatly appreciated. All purchases are BY DONATION.

Please join us at the Petawawa Heritage Village on June 15th, for planting of the trees to commemorate our two long-time members who passed away in the last year – Marielle “Marie” Nash who passed away in November 2023 and Cindy Lilly on April 2, 2024.

School Program

The program is complete for another successful year with 86 children having received the benefit of years of knowledge from our PHS volunteers. Congrats to our new, budding youth PHS members. May you enjoy gardening success for years to come!

Miyawaki Planting

This Japanese reforestation technique was applied at Algonquin College and a multitude of trees and soil remain. Kristi Beatty is exploring options to plant the excess trees and will engage CFB/ASU Petawawa to determine if there are areas that can benefit from this technique.

“The Miyawaki method mimics the way a forest would recolonize itself if humans stepped away. Only native species that would occur naturally in that area without humans, given the specific climate condition, are planted.” https://www.sugiproject.com/blog/the-miyawaki-method-for-creating-forests

Pembroke Horticultural Society 100-Year Anniversary

Imagine! 100 YEARS! The Pembroke HS has been serving their community for that long and has watched the city grow immensely. They have also seen a lot of old-growth trees removed for development. So they are celebrating their 100th year by buying and planting 100 trees to help reforest their urban environment. The Petawawa Horticultural Society will be donating $100 to buy one of these trees for them. Congrats Pembroke HS!

Upcoming Events

Plant Sale (Saturday, June 15th, 0900-1200)
We will be having another sale on Saturday, June 15th, 0900-1200 at the Heritage Village
Come out and find the thing you’re missing in your garden. If you have plants you are willing to share for the sale, that would be greatly appreciated. All purchases are BY DONATION.
Memorial Tree Planting (Saturday, June 15th, 0900-1200)
Please join us at the Petawawa Heritage Village on June 15th at 9AM, for planting of the trees to commemorate our two long-time members who passed away in the last year – Marielle “Marie” Nash who passed away in November 2023 and Cindy Lilly on April 2, 2024.
Calendar Photo Contest (now thru August 31)
From now through August 31, 2024, we will be accepting photo submissions from members for inclusion in our 2025 calendar. They will be judged by the executive in September and the winners announced shortly thereafter. The winners will have their photo posted in one of the 12 months as it corresponds to the season and have bragging rights, so be sure to capture for the entire year. We anticipate that the calendar will be available at the AGM in November.
Trillium Awards (May 1 – July 15)
Have you seen any beautiful yards that should be award winning yards? Please nominate friends, neighbors or even yourself if you think they/you may be deserving of recognition and submit your nominations. Deadline for trillium awards nominations for 2024 is July 15th. Visit the Trillium Awards Program page for details or simply submit your nomination through this form.

OHA News

D2 2024 AGM in Perth

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D2 AGM Photo Contest Winners

Best in Show, Brian Boomer Beattie with Dragonfly

The Petawawa Horticultural Society was represented in the contest with the following winning photos.