A Garden for All
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 …
Creemore Couple Creates Captivating Garden Read More
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 …
A Globe-Trotting Family’s Sculptured Life Read More
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 …
Beauty in The Beach Read More
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 …
Action Needed Now to Save Toronto’s Ravines Read More
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 …
RBG opens a rose garden for the 21st Century Read More
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 …
Don’t miss the TBG’s 31st annual garden tour Read More
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 …
Flora & Fauna on an African Safari Read More
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 …
Building a Framework to Protect & Enjoy Toronto’s Ravines Read More
From maple leaves and hockey players to underwater tableaus and flower gardens, there seems to be no subject that can’t be featured in a quilt. This was more than evident …
The Joy of Quilts and Quilting Read More
Every hibiscus flower pictured here, above and below, is from the same plant. Last spring I bought an unnamed potted hibiscus plant from Costco. In the store its few blooms …
Colour-Changing Hibiscus Full of Surprises Read More