City Gardening

1 of 10 Ways to Get Through Winter

By Lorraine • Feb 16th, 2009 • Category: Favourite Gardens, Winter

A stained glass scupture at Hollis Garden

Winter is not high on my list of gardening seasons. Around February, waiting for the weather to warm up, I get itchy feet and twitchy green thumbs. To get me through the dreary days, I’ve developed a list of winter gardening passtimes to while away the winter. Here’s the first one of my top ten list:

1. Escape to warmer climes. Okay, it may be cheating, but I’m making up the rules, and I say travelling to a warmer part of the world is one of the best ways to beat the winter blahs. I just returned from Central Florida, about an hour’s drive southwest of Orlando (where I did not stop to visit Disney Wolrd…) and had a wonderful time exporing this very authentic slice of the state. Along with a small, cosy group of travel writers, I visited two great gardens and a nature preserve and sampled plenty of downhome, local food, discovering that there’s more to Florida than key lime pie! Here’s a gallery of some of the sites that made me forget wintry Toronto.

How do you get through the winter? Post your favourite passtimes.