If you go into the woods today, be sure to mind your “stooks and punes”! Don’t worry, it’s easy to do, and only a tiny bit scary. Nestled next to a lightly wooded area of Edwards Gardens, the “Stooks and Punes” art installation at the Toronto Botanical Garden (TBG) is made for exploration by the young [...]
Those of you who have been following my Facebook posts know that I was lucky enough to be invited by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to visit some of that amazing country’s gardens and attractions. Fresh from that trip, I’m all agog with ideas for adding a touch of Thai to my own garden. Once [...]
Hooray to New Brunswick’s Kingsbrae Garden, which was recognized as one of the top five gardens worth travelling for at the recent Garden Tourism Conference, held in Toronto. Marketing Director Maureen McIlwain sent me these gorgeous shots of the garden to share with Citygardening readers. Enjoy!
For the past four days, I’ve been living and breathing Canada Blooms, first helping out with the set up of the show as part of Director of Horticulture Charlie Dobbin’s team of volunteers, then at the Opening Night Cocktail Party, off to the media preview the next morning and finally, wearing my Master Gardener badge, chatting to the [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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