The Flower and Garden Club is open to low-rent housing tenants in Montréal only and membership is free. The Club’s goal is to promote greening and urban agriculture projects and generate civic engagement by encouraging residents to beautify their living environments. There are many benefits (fostering biodiversity, cleanliness, community life and neighbourliness) and the impact on the tenants’ sense of pride and safety is undeniable.
To encourage tenants to join the Club, the OMHM offers a variety of free horticultural services. Sentier Urbain, a not-for-profit organization, has joined the effort by delivering services to tenant members.
Member benefits include:
- horticultural advice: home visits or telephone consultations;
- horticultural training for groups of five or more by request.
- donations of horticultural materials (cedar bins, potting soil, compost, mulch, garden soil, etc.); and
- guided tours in the Sentier Urbain gardens, the Westmount Conservatory and Greenhouses and the Jardin botanique.
To learn more about all the benefits currently available to Flower and Garden Club members, click here (in French only to comply with the law in Québec).
The OMHM Flower and Garden Club also encourages community and environmental groups that work with youths living in low-rent housing. These groups are eligible for financial contributions in support of projects involving young people. Groups should contact the low-rent housing community organizer to check their eligibility.
Interested in joining? Please call us at (514) 521-5608 or by email at cfj.omhm@gmail.com. Simple and free!
Your Flower and Garden Club membership is renewed automatically each year. To cancel your membership, please contact us.
Every summer, Flower and Garden Club members are invited to create beauty, blossom and cultivated wonders with a passion. The efforts of club members had a direct impact on the quality of living environments. With the warm season behind us, shovels, spades and rakes in storage until spring, here are some great pictures of last season’s success.
I feel good when I take care of the place in front of my home " Guilaine." When people come by and tell me it’s beautiful in front of our building, it makes my day " Claude. Habitations Papineau
Photo: Martin Alarie
Luz and Carole love flowers and cleanliness. They pose in front of their building, Habitations Du Parc Frontenac.
Photo: Martin Alarie
"A connection has been created with the place", believes Lydmyla. "Our neighbors smile and encourage us, it warms our hearts. Our body needs to feel emotions, it needs to be nourished by creativity, beauty and being part of a community.
Landscaping carried out with the children of Habitations Workman-Delisle
Photo: Martin Alarie
Every year, the Flower and Garden Club invites its members to the Jardin botanique through a collaboration with Espace pour la vie.