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Welcome to the Old Field Habitat Garden's home page. For more detailed information about the Garden, a pictorial visit, plant sales from our nursery, or our consulting and design services, please click on highlighted words or the information buttons.
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The Garden is an on-going landscape restoration project, located approximately 65 kilometers south of Ottawa in eastern Ontario, Canada. Initiated in 1984 by Philip Fry with the help of his family, friends, and students, the Garden's purpose is to enrich the biodiversity of a fifteen-acre parcel of abandoned pasture. The transformation of this property into a garden has relied on the site's geo-physical and biological characteristics ( its climate, topography, soil types, drainage, and the natural processes of plant succession) as well as natural and social history. To date, by focussing on the re-introduction of regional flora as a key to ecological regeneration, five distinct micro-habitats have been created.
OUR NURSERY
Our wildflower nursery, originally set up to provide appropriate indigenous stock for our planting program, now offers over ninety species of native plants for sale at reasonable prices. The nursery is open by appointment from Thursday through Sunday from Earth Day until Father's Day, and again from Labour Day weekend until Halloween. As we are frequently at special events on weekends, please do contact us to make your appointment. For more information, please click on "plant sales" to the left.
CONSULTING AND DESIGN
With over twenty years of experience in habitat gardening, we now offer on-site consultation and design services to gardeners who would like to intstall envirnomentally friendly, water conscious, chemical free gardens. Modeled on woodland, prairie and meadow habitats, and ranging from small "pocket gardens" to extensive landscapes in either urban or rural settings, these gardens can be envisioned as the progressive integration of native species into established gardens, the development of new outdoor living spaces, or creative solutions to "problem areas."
Please click here for further information.
We are also experienced in conducting workshops in Wildflower Habitat Gardening, in both Spring and Fall Sessions.
If your group is interested in offering a Wildflower or Naturalization Workshop, and would like us to participate, please contact us well in advance so appropriate arrangements can be made.
In the past few years, the deer population in our region has increased dramatically. As the deer forage for food, especially when they are very hungry in the early spring, they eat eat everything available. They have unfortunately severely damaged the garden, especially the woodland plantings, so we have decided that it is best to no longer offer guided visits to the garden. We do, however, continue welcome visitors to our nursery. Please contanct us for an appointment.
To contact us, please telephone (613) 258-7945 or write us at our e-mail address : wildflowers@ripnet.com . The physical address of the Garden is 2935 Porter Road, Oxford Station, Ontario, K0G 1T0. For directions to reach the Garden by road, please click the Map to OFG tab.
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