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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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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Building a Framework to Protect & Enjoy Toronto’s Ravines
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 …
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The Joy of Quilts and Quilting
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 …
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Colour-Changing Hibiscus Full of Surprises
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 …
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The Peterhof, a Russian must-see for garden lovers
The Peterhof, sometimes known as the Russian Versailies, is a definite must-see for any garden lovers visiting St. Petersburg, Russia. While Versailie was, in fact, the inspiration for Peter the …
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Connecting Kids with Nature Fun for All!
There are so many ways to connect kids with nature but the most important thing is to take the time to make it happen. And then, to convince the kids …
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