These eight gardens are located on the City of Ottawa Right of Way on both sides of West Donald Street from the entrance to the Rideau Sports Club to North River Road.
Native plants are being introduced to enhance the monoculture of hybrid lilies and restore public lands that have been neglected. This restoration and maintenance process started in 2022 and is being done through an agreement with the City of Ottawa’s Roads Department and the Overbrook Community Association. In 2024, most beds were restored by using cardboard and woodchips to suppress Dog-strangling Vine, Wild Mustard, Wild Parsnip, and Manitoba Maples. In the fall, small seedlings were planted as part of a pollinator project with Ecology Ottawa.
In 2025, students from the Ottawa Technical Secondary School will be winter sowing seeds from the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library. Seedlings and donated plants will allow us to complete our final garden plot in the spring of 2025.
Contact: garden@overbrook.ca
