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Posts Tagged ‘Toronto Botanical Garden’

Owl Prowl, January 21, 2012 at the Toronto Botanical Garden

By Lorraine • Dec 7th, 2011 • Category: Happenings

Your kids will think it’s a hoot to join in on this guided winter hike to explore the owl’s forest home. $10 ($7, TBG members). Call 416-397-1341 to register.



Child’s Play at the Toronto Botanical Garden

By Lorraine • Jul 12th, 2011 • Category: Favourite Gardens, Fresh Dirt, Gardens

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 [...]



June 2, Woman to Woman Luncheon Party in the Garden

By Lorraine • May 17th, 2011 • Category: Fresh Dirt

Toronto Botanical Garden (TBG) is ushering in the summer season with a new signature event: Woman To Woman is an elegant luncheon that will take place on Thursday, June 2, between 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. against the spectacular backdrop of Toronto Botanical Garden. This much anticipated event will bring together passionate gardeners and nature [...]



Best of Canada Blooms 2011

By Lorraine • Mar 17th, 2011 • Category: Favourite Gardens, Fresh Dirt, Gardens

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 [...]



When native plants aren’t the answer

By Lorraine • Feb 8th, 2011 • Category: Fresh Dirt, Plants

Belinda Gallagher tells it like it is. And backed by an impressive career as a nursery-owner and most recently, as Head of Horticulture at the Royal Botanical Gardens, her words reflect her experience and pragmatism. Although I missed her lecture on January 27, 2011 at the Toronto Botanical Garden, my good friend (and note-taker extraordinaire) Lorraine Hunter was there. [...]



Gardening Gals Get Cooking

By Lorraine • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Dig in, Summer

   I should know by now that gardening life rarely leads us down a straight and narrow path. But a cooking show, and a healthy one at that? But that’s exactly where  my gardening friends, Carol Cowan, Carol Gardner and Lorraine Hunter and I wound up. Last week, W Network’s Healthy Gourmet, televised on the VIVA  channel, taped [...]



Bridle Path Gardens

By Lorraine • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Favourite Gardens, Gardens

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 [...]



5 of 10 Ways to Get Through Winter

By Lorraine • Mar 5th, 2009 • Category: Winter

5. Subscribe to E-Newsletters: One of the best ways to keep in touch with the gardening world is by signing up for gardening newsletters. The ones I receive seem to arrive in my inbox just when I need them most — during a wicked snowstorm, when I’m doubting spring will ever come or when I’ve [...]



3 of 10 Ways to Get Through Winter

By Lorraine • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Winter

3. My third favourite way to get through the winter is to go to a gardening lecture. Luckily, I’m spoiled by the Toronto Botanical Garden’s Edwards Lecture series — and this year’s lineup of gardening celebs offers more treats than usual. First up are Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer-Ogden who are speaking on March 4 about [...]