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 [...]
Gardeners seem to grow like weeds up on the Bruce Peninsula. In addition to all the fabulous gardens I wrote about in A Day (Or Two) in the Country, I recently discovered another beautiful country garden large enough to make a city gardener green with envy.
From the winding country road it flanks, My Heart Is [...]
In the summertime, there are two types of families: cottage people and stay-at-home city folk. Ours is one of the latter. On the May 24 weekend, we watch as the city empties out and wait for the blissful quiet to descend on the city. This euphoria lasts for a few weekends, and then we get [...]
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