After spending just about every day last week at Canada Blooms, helping Charlie Dobbin with the plant material, attending two media events and chatting with the garden designers, you’d think I’d be all Bloomed out! Instead, I’m so impressed with this show that I just have to share my absolute favourite gardens, plants and people. So, [...]
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 [...]
10. Attend a Garden Show Nothing takes me out of winter and into spring than a trip to Canada Blooms. This year’s show features more than 24 gardens, an expanded marketplace and special speakers, including Jeff Lowenfels from Alaska who’s talking about organic gardening and Cornell University’ Dr. Robert Raguso with a lecture on the relationship [...]
Dragged myself out of bed for day two of the set up of Canada Blooms. Delivered lots of plants, watered containers and checked out the gardens in progress. My favourite so far is by Hobson Landscapes. Entitled Urban Pioneer, it features a contemporary sugar shack which should have been surrounded by sap buckets, but unfortunately, [...]
On day three, everything comes together — somehow. My day started out helping plant daffodils and lay mulch in the Bienenstock Natural Playground where kids can have fun learning about soil. There are stations for making birdseed balls, a tree-painting area and a log full of worms (yes, those yucky, icky but wonderful creatures that [...]
Spent the day helping Charlie Dobbin with the set up of Canada Blooms. Helped plant up giant planters filled with bulbs, primulas and gerberas — it felt like spring was here! Here are some fuzzy pictures (not sure if the fog is from the cell phone camera or the dust and exhaust fumes at the [...]
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