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Botanical Buzz

Aruna Panday, Toronto Master Gardener, with Prunus sargentii (common names are North Japanese hill cherry and Sargent’s cherry) in the TBG garden (2022)
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Say hello to our newest TBG Master Gardener (and, get the real dirt on our horticultural societies at the Garden)

Meet Aruna, TBG’s new Adult & Family Learning Supervisor. She’s just become a Master Gardener, but her passion for plants dates to when she was little. “In the way reading …

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Top Gardening Love Picks from the Toronto Botanical Garden

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, TBG’s staff and volunteers are sharing their most beloved plants, flowers, and books (as well as one cheeky song). Whether you’re a seasoned pro …

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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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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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Forest Bathing at the Garden

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Nov 14
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Linocut Fall Leaves

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Painting Botanical Cast Ornaments from Garden Blooms

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