Spring Discovery Days

Join our expert gardeners for guided tours through our lush tropical collections, where you’ll explore vibrant plants from around the world. Families can take part in interactive indoor and outdoor scavenger hunts, designed to spark curiosity, and connect kids (and adults!) to the natural world in fun and engaging ways. Go behind the scenes with exclusive access to our Production Greenhouse - the place where thousands of City of Hamilton flowers are grown, including our renowned chrysanthemum collection grown for the Fall Garden & Mum Show.

Learn about Hamilton's local plants and animals with the Hamilton Naturalists' Club through fun, hands-on activities for all ages. Visit our booth to try our "Would This Help Wildlife?" habitat sorting game, "Design a Pollinator Paradise" to share with your friends, and test your knowledge with interactive trivia, all while discovering simple ways to support biodiversity in your own backyard!

Green Venture - Discover what happens when it rains and how you can fix flooding with Green Venture. Learn about the environmental issues associated with stormwater runoff and ways you can prevent stormwater pollution. Create a mini city of your own and put it to the test in a rainstorm.

Hamilton Civic Museums - Celebrate spring blossoms with the Historic Kitchen Garden at Dundurn National Historic Site. Join Garden Demonstrator Melissa Wawrzyniak for a delightful drop-in activity and make colourful tissue paper Peonies and flower crowns.

Kids and parents will explore how toilets and sewers work in Hamilton while learning about the 3Ps — pee, poo, and toilet paper — the only things that should be flushed! Through a fun, hands-on activity, families will discover how flushing wipes and other garbage can clog pipes, cause sewer backups and harm local waterways.

The Waste Management team will be on site to answer your questions and share educational materials on how to properly sort waste in your household. Stop by to play fun games and win prizes while you learn.

Join Forestry for a fun, interactive look at our Urban Forest! Learn how trees grow, how they function, and the pests that affect them. Enjoy a Touch-a-Truck experience featuring a crane truck and stumper, test your knowledge by guessing a tree’s age for a chance to win a prize, and take part in a tree-themed scavenger hunt. Fun for all ages!

Forestry will be teaching the value of trees, proper potting techniques and planting instructions. There will be a crane truck and stumper, the operator will demonstrate crane operation and describe how the stumper grinds stumps, they will also have a log for participants to guess how old the tree is.

Traffic Signal specialists and Roadway Safety representatives will be on site to provide engaging, hands-on educational experiences focused on transportation infrastructure. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about traffic signs, signals, pavement markings, and important roadway safety initiatives designed to keep our communities safe and connected.

Join us at the Children’s Garden Project Activation Centre featuring our Let’s Get Growing Workshop Series and creative experiences with Paper Botanicals. Families can plant seeds, learn the basics of propagation, and dive into hands-on gardening fun while exploring simple, kid-friendly lessons in environmental stewardship. Discover how tiny seeds grow into thriving gardens—and help us nurture the next generation of young environmental stewards.

Explore children's pastimes of yesteryear and make connections between the past and present with fun and educational hands-on activities! Learn about old tools used on the farm and in the home for the past 200 years, then get creative at our crafting table.

Gage Park & Tropical Greenhouse

In Hamilton
Follow Gage Avenue, south of Main Street East, to Lawrence Road and enter the park at the Roselawn Lawn Bowling Club.

From Niagara/Buffalo
Take the QEW to the Red Hill Valley Parkway. Take the King Street exit and continue through the King Street intersection on to Lawrence Road. Continue on Lawrence Road and enter Gage Park at the Roselawn Bowling Club.

From Toronto
Take the QEW to Hwy. 403 and exit at Main Street East. Continue east to Gage Avenue and then south (right) to Lawrence Road. Enter Gage Park at the Roselawn Bowling Club.

From Guelph
Take Hwy. 6 to Hwy. 403 and exit at Main Street East. Continue east to Gage Avenue and then south (right) to Lawrence Road. Enter Gage Park at the Roselawn Bowling Club.

From Kitchener/London
Take Hwy. 403 eastbound and exit at Main Street East. Continue east to Gage Avenue and then south (right) to Lawrence Road. Enter Gage Park at the Roselawn Bowling Club.