This weekend, July 24 to 25, the gardeners of the City of Buffalo open their gardens for a tour-de-hort that’s free to all and sundry, including we Canucks (and no HST!). And after a sneak preview during a recent garden bloggers meet-up (yes, Virginia, there are enough garden bloggers out there to meet up — more than [...]
I love New York City at Christmastime: the sidewalk vendors roasting chestnuts; skaters at Bryant Park; open-air craft booths that sprout up in Central Park — and now, the High Line.
Non-gardeners just shake their heads when I tell them one of the highlights of a recent pre-Christmas trip to New York (apart from the no-hassle [...]
8. Private Gardens
The story tours of private gardens are a real treat of any Garden Writers Symposium, and the 2009 symposium in Raleigh was no exception. These tours offer a chance to see the best gardens of the region, to talk with the garden-makers and to discover new plants, plant combinations, and design ideas. Here’s [...]
Lights glowed from the Victorian Palm House and greenhouses at Allan Gardens while dignitaries and gardeners alike gathered on October 5, 2009 to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Canada’s oldest horticultural society – the Horticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto.From the evening’s speeches, it was evident that gardening traditions run long and deep. Both Lieutenant [...]
Story tours are a popular part of Garden Writers Symposiums. We all board buses, usually at ungodly hours of the morning, to tramp through public and private gardens. It’s a real challenge to take a photo without a single garden writer in the frame, and just as difficult to stay out of the way of [...]
As a garden writer, I’m lucky enough to be able to attend annual conferences where 600 or so plant-and-garden crazy writers gather in various parts of North America to discover the newest plants and the finest gardens. As if that’s not enough, we listen to seminars – both thought provoking and educational – given by [...]
How green is your garden? With that thought-provoking question in mind, the Royal Botanical Gardens has established three new demonstation gardens, located just beyond the entrance to the Laking Garden, that offer three different ways to go green and reduce your carbon footprint. The No MOW! garden shows how an attractive perennial bed can replace a front lawn. The No [...]
Where can you ogle 300 beautiful gardens for free? At the Buffalo Garden Walk, which takes place on July 25 and 26. This is one of my favourite self-guided walking tours. Not only are there some great gardens, but it’s a chance to look beyond the outlet malls and explore the many unique and interesting neighbourhoods in [...]
If you attend only one gardening event this year (poor you!), make it the Toronto Botanical Garden’s annual Through the Garden Gate tour — Beyond the Bridle Path, which takes place on two days only: June 20 and 21. It’s not every day you get a chance to ogle the gardens of one the toniest [...]
The semi-annual Journees des Plantes at Courson, just outside Paris, draws plant nerds from all over France, Europe and North America — including me! In May, 2009, three and a half days of pouring rain tested the mettle of both visitors and exhibitors alike. But muddy ruts a foot deep and tractors pulling cars out [...]
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