Author: Lorraine Hunter

Restoring urban forests is not easy. Henry Hughes and Melanie Sifton, two experts at the Toronto Botanical Garden’s 2019 Ravine Symposium agree.  Both pointed out how easy it is to …

She gardens. He pots. Between them they have created an impressive seven-outdoor-room garden in midtown Creemore, Ontario.  The combined artistry of Charlotte and Paul Vorstermans was an unexpected treat on …

Choosing hundreds of stone sculptures, crating and shipping them from Zimbabwe to botanical gardens across the world is one thing. Packing up your entire household including mom, dad, two kids …

If you love gardens you won’t want to miss this year’s Mark’s Choice Through the Garden Gate in Toronto’s iconic Beach neighbourhood. Every year Toronto Botanical Garden invites people to …

It may be true that a rose by any other name is still a rose but the blossoms at the Royal Botanical Garden’s rejuvenated rose garden are not the same …

My first assignment as editor of Plant & Garden magazine was to cover the Civic Garden Centre’s Through The Garden Gate garden tour. More than 20 years later it remains …

Nowhere are symbiotic relationships in nature as obvious as in Africa. Birds pick the insects off zebras, giraffes, hippos and elephants and in turn tweet out a warning when dangerous …

Ravine Symposium Part 1 The largest ravine system in the world is one of Toronto’s most distinctive geographical features. Winding through its many neighbourhoods, it provides some 26,000 acres of …