Glorious Shade
Bright Ideas for Shady Spaces Book Review by Lorraine Hunter In her book, Glorious Shade: Dazzling plants, design ideas, and proven techniques for your shady garden, Jenny Rose Carey has …
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Overcoming Pitfalls to Restoring Urban Forests
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 …
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Creemore Couple Creates Captivating Garden
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 …
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A Globe-Trotting Family’s Sculptured Life
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 …
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Beauty in The Beach
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 …
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Action Needed Now to Save Toronto’s Ravines
There is no doubt. Toronto’s ravines are under siege by invasive trees and ground plants. If we don’t take action now, our urban native woodlands will lose their biodiverse resiliency …
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Salsa Party kicks off TBG’s free Edwards Summer Music Series
It was a grand night for singing…dancing, listening to music, picnicking, drinking wine or beer in the garden and generally having a good time. Despite the rain and lightning just …
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RBG opens a rose garden for the 21st Century
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 …
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Don’t miss the TBG’s 31st annual garden tour
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 …
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Flora & Fauna on an African Safari
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 …
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