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Ottawa Valley Rock Garden & Horticultural Society
A Chapter of The North American Rock Garden Society
&
Member Society of OHA District 2
(What is NARGS?)
2025-2026 Meeting Calendar
Sat. Sept 13th 2025 1:30
Mélanie Ouellette – Native Plant Gardening
In person and by Zoom
Mélanie created the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library to foster Indigenous reconciliation, address climate change and empower women through the collecting, sharing and growing of native plants.
Her vision is to create a grassroots movement that is reused around the world so that humans responsibly fulfill their stewardship role in nature through education and sharing seeds for free. Mélanie is the 2023 recipient of the Ecology Ottawa Active & Accessible City Award, given to a member of your community that works to improve urban quality of life and inspires you and your community to advocate for an accessible, sustainable, livable, Ottawa.
Mélanie has a Master’s in Political Science from Université Laval, a Master’s of Business Administration from University of Ottawa and a Bachelor’s Degree, Joint Honours, in International Relations and International Development Studies from the University of New Brunswick.
She worked for the federal government for Natural Resources Canada and Library and Archives Canada in policy, programming and communications on various issues. She also has experience working with Indigenous communities.
Her current job is Manager, Strategic and Operational Planning at Engineers Canada where she is responsible for consultations, risk management, planning and reporting. She was previously Manager, Qualifications, in the same organization, where she developed national guidelines to foster harmonization across provincial and territorial engineering regulators. She lives with her husband in Orléans
Sat. Feb 14th 2026 1:30
Chris Dixon – “Creating a crevice garden for the smallest of spaces”
** Zoom** only meeting
In this talk, Chris focused on the design and drama of miniature crevice gardens. He discussed soil mediums, rock types and plants which he found to be successful in these mini mountains.
Chris was born and raised in London. He spent several years travelling in southeast Asia and Europe. For a while he lived in Australia and Ecuador, and 14 years ago he moved to Victoria, British Columbia to study horticulture. After graduating he was part of the gardening team at Royal Roads University. He has also worked and learned how to create crevice gardens from Paul Spriggs.
Sat. Oct 4th 2025 12:30
Todd Boland – Alpines of Southern Alberta
Inperson and Zoom
The southern Alberta Rockies is home to the greatest variety of alpine plants Canada has to offer. This talk will feature the profuse diversity of alpines growing in Jasper, Banff and Waterton Lakes National Parks along with the Colombian Icefields.
Todd lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he w
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