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WE ARE OVER 100 YEARS STRONG!

For over 100 years, the Etobicoke Horticultural Society has grown, adapted,
and flourished - a testament to the creativity and community service of our members. 
To celebrate our Centennial, in 2025 we chose a new logo to reconnect with Etobicoke’s original peoples who called the area between Etobicoke Creek and the Humber River Adobigok, which means “where the alders grow.”

Please visit the About Us section for more about our long and successful history from 1925 - 2025.

We work together to help you…

  • Get Involved

    Become a member of our community and get all the benefits. Support your community through our many hands-on (hands in the dirt) programs.

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  • Learn & Grow

    Looking for gardening, plant and environmental inspiration, ideas, advice? Visit our information resource and connect with our members.

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  • Enjoy

    Check our upcoming lecture series currently offered online free to our members.
    Join us as we explore gardens and nature with exciting and fun activities.

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  • Exciting Workshops & Classes

    Our final workshop for 2026 takes place on November 21st. Check our EHS Shop for details and to register. We are in the process of planning new workshops for 2027, so check back regularly in the EHS Shop for new listings.

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  • Our monthly speakers inspire!

    Build your knowledge and interest in plants and nature through our monthly meetings and online lectures/tutorials

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  • NEW! Youth Program Funding and Bursaries

    For 2026, the EHS efforts to educate youth about the environment have focused on funding classes through the Scientists inSchool Primary School Program and offering two bursaries for Post secondary students at Niagara College.

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  • Get your hands dirty

    Support our efforts to build interest, involvement and education in gardening and the environment

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What Members Are Saying

 

First of all, it is great to get together with folks like me who are interested in plants and gardening.
The speakers are top rated, well informed, and have years of experience in the industry, or traveling or with their home garden.

There are always interesting people to talk about who are like me, back yard gardeners.

Last, but not least, is having a good cup of coffee and a home made goodie. Delicious!

— Gordon Forgave - member since 1997

Over 30 years ago, I moved from a tiny city lot with just a patch of lawn to a fair-sized Etobicoke lot with a front yard, a back yard and a side yard.

Knowing nothing about gardening, I joined the EHS for information and inspiration. There I found a friendly and welcoming community of gardeners who were keen to share their knowledge, their experience and their plants. EHS has nurtured my love of plants and an appreciation for caring for our biodiversity.

— Rita Alldrit, member since 1992

Always Be Learning, that's what's important to me, at least for the topics I am interested in!

The monthly speakers Etobicoke Hort. provides does this for me in a stimulating way, on such a variety of gardening & ecological concerns.

Even on Zoom, the learning continues and grows and invigorates me to keep on gardening, often in new ways.

 -Jessica Crawford, member since 2008