Manotick Post Office Garden

MANOTICK POST OFFICE GARDEN

1171 Maple Avenue, Manotick

While the property belongs to Canada Post, MHS volunteers have been working in and improving the raised garden beds for over 32 years. It started with the Champlain rose on the left side of the stairs and has grown into an extensive show of perennials, annuals, and grasses. The garden boasts a mixture of plants with a pollinator palette including sedum, liatris, salvia, coneflower, rudbeckia, goldstrum rudbeckia, day lilies, fleece flower, a rose bush, heliopsis, tall grasses, iris, phlox, tall purple iris, stella d’oro lilies, pink yarrow, shasta daisies, many spring bulbs, and decorative stones.  2023 new plantings include:  “Shrub rose OSO Easy Hot Paprika” and “Denim and Lace”.

The gardens showcase different flowers in bloom every month.  The eye-catching ID markers telling visitors the names of our plants is a great addition.

Top picks from Marianne Wightman, Manotick Post Office Garden leader:

• Bearded iris
• Liatris
• Shasta daisies