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 [...]
6. Get thee to a greenhouse! When it’s frosty outside, it’s a tropical paradise inside a greenhouse or conservatory. Here in Toronto there are several indoor gardens, including Allan Gardens in the heart of the city, the Cloud Forest Conservatory to the west of the downtown core and Centennial Park Conservatory in Etobicoke. Outside of [...]
In an age of instant gratification, it’s a wonder we have the patience to plant fall bulbs at all when we know it’ll be a good five to six months before we see their flowers in bloom.Why do these plants hold such sway over our impatient tendencies? Certainly there’s a feeling of satisfaction at planting [...]
Think spring now! To ignore the coming season is to court horticultural disaster – a naked garden devoid of tulips, crocuses and daffodils when across the street your neighbours flaunt their vernal finery. Fall is the time to plant these colourful spring flower bulbs.For gardeners, the bins of bulbs that line the aisles of garden [...]
With fall in the air, all gardeners’ thoughts turn to autumn planters – right? Like opening the closet to examine the state of our fall wardrobes, planning a container of autumn plants signals the change of season from the fun, but toasty days of summer, to the energizingly crisp cool days of fall. Each year [...]
Attention, home-grown garden designers. Canadian Gardening is running an online beauty contest for the best home and garden makeovers. This is a chance for all city gardeners to strut your stuff and show off your horticultural accomplishments. Even if you don’t think your garden is worthy, it’s fun to scroll through the entries with a savvy eye [...]
Growing vegetables in the city has become so popular that the University of Guelph has launched The Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. The one hectare market garden located in the northwest corner of the Arboretum offers hands-on, practical experience as part of part of U of G’s major in organic agriculture. Hankerin’ to be an [...]
No matter where I wander, I find city gardens with loads of personality. Nancyland in Portland OR is one of the best examples. Here’s a garden that grabs you by the eyeballs and says, hi, this is my world and I hope ya’ll like it. Hold on tight, ‘cos your eyes will dart from the mosaic pebble [...]
Hens are hot. That’s the message I came back with from a recent tour of the gardens of Portland, Oregon. People are blogging about them (see Dirt by Amy Stewart), gardeners are raising them in urban gardens and at one city nursery called Pistils, they’re selling exotic species like Silkens and Frizzle Cochins (these were [...]
170,000 pairs of feet tromped the grounds of the Royal Hospital in London’s posh Chelsea district, queuing for a glimpse of the 16 show gardens and 25 courtyard gardens that were the highlight of the 2003 Chelsea Flower Show, which celebrated 140 years. A showcase of all that’s new, innovative, and exciting in the world [...]
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