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We Have the Opportunity to Improve Our Quality of Life, and We’re Doing Something About It!
Canadensis: The Garden of Canada will offer a unique place to celebrate our great natural heritage and demonstrate our ongoing commitment to sustainability in the context of climate change.
Ottawa is the only G20 capital that has no botanical garden to display, interpret and promote Canada’s botanical diversity and beauty, as well as Canada’s vast horticultural, agricultural and arboricultural knowledge and expertise.
All life depends on plants. Botany matters. In today’s world, where environmental systems are increasingly interdependent, living plants are literally the “lungs” of the planet. They provide all of our food directly or indirectly. Plants provide most of the medicine used throughout the world as well as the building of raw materials and sources of many kinds of products, many of which we have yet to recognize or develop. Plants beautify and enrich our lives and give peace to our souls and facilitate our ability to envisage a more complete and richer future.
CANADIAN BOTANY FOCUS IN ONE LOCATION
Our botanical garden will focus on displaying plants from all parts of Canada throughout the gardens, providing a unique venue for education, research, conservation and public enjoyment. Plants will be curated as collections within a living museum.
Education in Environmental Stewardship
In cooperation with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Arboretum, The Fletcher Wildlife Garden, and the Central Experimental Farm, Canadensis garden will be a public showcase for relevant research underway for our changing times.
With our orderly and diverse collections of plants and extensive education programs, we are ideally positioned to make major contribution to our lives and to help us envisage the future.
Sustainability and Enrichment
Sustainability and enrichment will be driving values for our Children’s Garden, Climate Change Lab, Economy Garden, Conservatory, Garden Design lab, Urban Agricultural exhibits and many more…
A Place to enjoy and rejuvenate
Gardens have the ability to heal our spirits in troubled times and to lead us to envisage a brighter, positive and productive future, as we pursue our busy lives in the midst of ever-competing demands of the modern world.
Jobs and Economic Benefits
Construction of this major infrastructure project will give a measurable boost to the construction industry. Once operational, the Garden will be a destination asset in Canada’s Capital, creating many permanent and seasonal positions within the site. The total economic and tourism spin offs to the National Capital area will be significant.
Of Interest
Canadensis Garden Fall Celebration 🍁
🍂Celebrate nature in all its Fall splendour at the site of the future Botanical Garden of Canada 🍂 Saturday, October 1 | 10 – 4Canadensis Garden, Experimental FarmPrince of Wales Drive at Hartwell’s Locks Lane (K2C 3K1)FREE Family Fun | FREE Parking 🎨Botanical...
OHA & OHA District 2 Tree Planting @ Canadensis to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of our late Queen Elizabeth II
On Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 2:00 p.m., the Ontario Horticultural Association (OHA), and OHA District 2, will conduct a tree planting to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of our late Queen Elizabeth II.
This special event will take place on the site of Canadensis, the national Botanical Garden of Canada. The two Bur Oak trees (Quercus macrocarpa) have been donated by the Almonte Tree Group. These will be the first two commemorative trees to be planted in the Canadensis Grand Forest site.
A Company of Fools presents HAMLET @ Canadensis – POSTPONED FOR 2022
Performance Update from A Company of Fools
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Despite our best efforts, we have made the incredibly difficult decision to cancel our upcoming tour of Hamlet in its entirety. Due to reasons both within and outside of our control, mounting the show in a way that lives up to the standard our audiences deserve has proved impossible at this time. We are so sorry to all of you who were looking forward to seeing Hamlet; we were equally excited to share it with you, and are heartbroken that it cannot happen this Fall. To everyone who has stuck with us through these tumultuous past few weeks, we extend our deepest and most sincere gratitude.
A Central Location of National Significance
Located along Prince of Wales Drive and adjacent to the Historic Rideau Canal at Hartwells Locks, our National Botanical Garden occupies a 34-acres parcel of land at the southeast corner of the Central Experimental Farm.
With the addition of Canadensis to the existing Canada Agricultural and Food Museum, Fletcher Wildlife Garden, National Arboretum, Central Experimental Farm Ornamental Beds and Commissioners’ Park Floral Displays, these varied attractions will provide a unique horticultural hub. This exciting world-class garden destination will benefit the greater community as well as visitors from across Canada and elsewhere.
Canadensis Botanical Garden
Canadensis Looking South
Canadensis Looking West
Canadensis Looking North
This is Ottawa’s chance to add a city-improving enhancement that will attract tourists and residents year round. Let’s seize the moment.
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