From the Stacks: Summer Art Gallery Exhibition
This summer, the TBG Art Gallery, located in the Weston Family Library, will feature works focusing on plants and nature expressed through textile arts. On the heels of the popular HortiCULTURE Salon...
This summer, the TBG Art Gallery, located in the Weston Family Library, will feature works focusing on plants and nature expressed through textile arts. On the heels of the popular HortiCULTURE Salon...
“… have you ever wondered how insects and plants relate to one another? In some ways they are partners; in other ways they are enemies.” D.H. Patent, Plants and Insects Together, 1976. One...
In the past decade, a popular and growing phenomenon has been the proliferation of flash mobs across the world. A “flash mob” has been defined as “a group of people mobilized by social media...
In 2012 the TBG ran its first Summer Reading Club for Kids in the Weston Family Library. The Club owed much of its success to the hard work of Mark Stewart, a graduate student at McGill...
“The conditions with which living plants have to contend when brought into our ordinary living rooms are trying indeed.” – Parker T. Barnes, House plants and how to grow them, 1915. I...
Below are a handful of new titles now available in the Weston Family Library, each accompanied by a review from long-time library volunteer Madge Bruce. Thomas E. Cooper, Ed. The roots of my...
Last fall the TBG unveiled a new location for its art gallery in the Weston Family Library. The inaugural exhibition featured works by artists Penelope Stewart and Jean Johnson, whose art met with...
Introduction The Toronto Botanical Garden (TBG) is an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to connect people, plants and the natural world through education, inspiration and...
“I have often been astonished at our indifference respecting the applause of those who have introduced useful plants into their country, the sight or fruit of which are to this day so delightful....
On Tuesday October 23, we celebrated the launch of a new special collection within the Weston Family Library: The Toronto African Violet Society (TAVS) Collection. The TAVS’ own library has a new...
