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Kemptville Campus Greenhouse

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The Kemptville Campus Greenhouse is located on the Kemptville Campus. It is home to event rental space, workshops and plants.

If you are interested in renting space to house your plants over the winter or host a workshop please speak with us.

05/25/2026

🌿 Greenhouse Spotlight: Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) 🌿

Nothing says spring quite like the heady, nostalgic fragrance of the Common Lilac! This week, we are celebrating this timeless garden favorite.

Here are a few quick facts about this hardy beauty:

A Historic Traveller: Native to the Balkan Peninsula, lilacs were brought over by early European settlers and have been filling Canadian gardens with colour and scent since the 1700s.

That Incomparable Scent: The signature sweet, heavy aroma comes from a complex mix of volatile compounds (mostly lilac aldehydes) that are strongest on warm, sunny days to attract pollinators.

Propagation Tip: While they do throw up root suckers, the most reliable way to clone your favorite bush is by taking softwood cuttings in early summer, just after the flowers fade.

05/21/2026

🌿 WANTED: Your Small Pots, Cell Packs & Trays! 🌿

Even though our doors are officially closed for the season after an incredible season, we are already thinking ahead to next year!

Our shelves are looking beautifully BARE, and we need your help to fill them back up. Instead of throwing away or stacking up this season's leftover gardening containers, give them a second life by recycling them with us! ♻️

📦 What We Need:

Small Pots

Cell Packs (six-packs, four-packs, etc.)

Trays

📍 Where to Leave Them:

You can drop off your donations anytime right by the greenhouse door.

A massive thank you to everyone who supported the greenhouse and continue to help our community grow. Every single pot helps us prepare for next season! 💚

05/19/2026

🌿 Plant Spotlight: Trillium grandiflorum

With the greenhouse closing for the summer we are taking the greenhouse spotlight out for a walk. Our spotlight this week is shining on one of spring's most iconic and beautiful woodlands flowers: the Large-flowered Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)! 🤍

This native beauty is always a highlight of the season. Here are a few fascinating facts about it:

🌱 Long-lived and hardy: This woodland perennial can thrive for many, many years in the right conditions.

3️⃣ Rule of Three: Its parts come in threes! Each plant has three leaves, three petals, and three sepals.

🐜 Ant Power: Trilliums have a mutual relationship with ants, which disperse their seeds in a process called myrmecochory.

🇨🇦 A Provincial Symbol: It’s famous as the floral emblem of Ontario. Being recognized as the official Provincial flower in 1937

🕰️ Slow-spreading rhizomes and is very difficult to grow from seed, often taking up to 7 years to flower!

Keep your eyes peeled on your next hike and drop a photo in the comments! 👇

05/15/2026

🌿 Closed for the Season – Thank You! 🌿
And just like that, the indoor greenhouse season has come to a close!

Our hearts are incredibly full. We want to extend a massive, heartfelt THANK YOU to absolutely everyone who made this season so unforgettable:

🌺To our wonderful volunteers: Your dedication, hard work, and dirty hands kept this space thriving. We couldn't have done it without you.

🌺To our visitors: Thank you for stepping into our green oasis, bringing your curiosity, and supporting our workshops and plant sales.

🌺To our community: To everyone who shared our space, joined the conversations, and brought such amazing energy into the greenhouse this year—you made this season truly special.

While the greenhouse doors are closing for now, the growing doesn't stop! Keep an eye on our page for updates, future events, and glimpses of what’s ahead.

Wishing you all a beautiful, bountiful growing season outdoors. We can't wait to see you all again in the fall! 💚🌱

05/14/2026

🌿 HUGE THANK YOU, KEMPTVILLE! And a little call for help... 🌿

Wow, what an incredible Spring Plant Sale! Our shelves in the pot room are looking pretty bare, and that's thanks to your amazing support. We are so grateful to this community for making the sale such a huge success!

Now, as we wrap things up for the season and look ahead to next year, we need your help to fill those shelves back up.

Do you have any small pots, cell packs, or trays taking up space? We’d be happy to take them off your hands for our future growing!

Since the greenhouse is officially closing for the season this Friday, you are welcome to set your donations right by the door, and we will collect them.

Thank you for helping us keep the Kemptville Campus Greenhouse growing!

05/13/2026

Farewell to Our Greenhouse Guardian

It’s a bittersweet day as we wrap up our season here at the greenhouse. We are saying a fond farewell to Gary, our resident grey tree frog.

Gary has spent the entire winter with us, serving faithfully as our "Greenhouse Guardian". We want to thank her for all her hard work keeping a watchful eye over the plants during the colder months.

As the weather warms up, Gary has been safely relocated back to her original home. While we will miss seeing her tucked away among the greenery, we’re happy she’s back where she belongs for the summer.

05/12/2026

Greenhouse Spotlight: Citrus × meyeri 🍋

As we wrap up the season and prepare to close the greenhouse doors, our final spotlight is on this magnificent Meyer Lemon (Citrus × meyeri). It has been a pleasure to "babysit" this citrus over the winter. Seeing it thrive with lush foliage and a ripening fruit is a wonderful way to conclude our winter series.

A hybrid between a lemon and a mandarin orange, the Meyer is famous for its thin skin and sweet, floral juice. It’s a true testament to the patience required to overwinter tropicals, and it’s now ready for the summer sun.

Summer Series: Your Suggestions!
The greenhouse is closing, but the spotlights continue! We’re moving the focus to the high-growth summer season and want to know what you’d like to see featured.

What should we highlight next? You name it we'll feature it

Summer House Plants
Sun-Loving tropicals
Summer Edibles
Pollinator Favorites
Cacti and succulents
Trees and shrubs

What are you tending to in your gardens or on your windowsills? Let us know in the comments!

05/09/2026

A Note of Gratitude To our incredible community,

We are honestly struggling to find the words to describe today. To say it exceeded our wildest dreams would be an understatement—we are absolutely humbled by the overwhelming support you showed us.

Whether you stopped by to pick up something new for your garden, bid in the auction, or just enjoyed the BBQ and live music with us, thank you. Seeing so many familiar and new faces reminds us why we love what we do.

We also want to extend a massive thank you for your patience during the "crazy rush" this morning! We know it was a bit of a squeeze at times, and we appreciate you sticking with us through the excitement. We’ve already started brainstorming a new layout for next year to ensure a smoother flow for everyone.

Finally, a huge shout-out to the vendors, volunteers and helpers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make this success possible. We couldn’t have done it without this team.

Our hearts are very full tonight. Thank you for growing with us!

05/08/2026

Tomorrow is the big day! 🌸 Join us at the Kemptville Campus Greenhouse from 10 am to 2 pm for our Spring Plant Sale.

✨ Plants: Locally grown with love by our volunteers.
🌭 Food: Delicious cash BBQ to keep you fueled.
🎶 Music: Live tunes to enjoy while you shop.
🎟️ Silent Auction: Your chance to win that beautiful quilt and more! Everything goes back into supporting the greenhouse. Let’s kick off the gardening season together!

05/07/2026

A Huge Thank You to Harbers Greenhouse & Forestry! 🌳

We are so excited to announce a wonderful addition to our Spring Plant Sale this Saturday, May 9th!

The team at Harbers Greenhouse and Forestry has incredibly donated two trays of stunning native trees: Swamp White Oak and Black Willow. These hardy, beautiful species are perfect for local landscapes and supporting our ecosystem.

Partnerships like this make our community thrive, and we couldn’t be more grateful for their support. If you’ve been looking to add some native canopy to your property, make sure to stop by on Saturday!

In the meantime, please go give them some love and check out the amazing work they do for our local forests and green spaces:

🔗 Visit them here: https://harbersgreenhouse.ca/

See you all Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM!

Address

75 Campus Drive
Kemptville, ON
K0G1J0

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 12pm
Tuesday	9am - 12pm
Wednesday	9am - 12pm
Thursday	9am - 12pm
Friday	9am - 12pm

Website

https://www.kemptvillecampus.ca/

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