Paul’s Plant Picks: Edible Antiques
As we shovel out from yet another dumping of the white stuff and the piles get higher and higher, I can’t help but wonder when, and if, spring will ever …
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As we shovel out from yet another dumping of the white stuff and the piles get higher and higher, I can’t help but wonder when, and if, spring will ever …
Paul’s Plant Picks: Edible Antiques Read More
Planning for a Winter Garden Tour Who would have thought that at this time last year select Helleborus and Erica in the TBG gardens had visible buds and flowers bravely …
Paul’s Plant Picks: Great Bones Read More
Toronto Botanical Garden has once again created a Big FAB Gay Garden Wedding Package for a bevy of LGBTQ love-birds wishing to renew their vows or marry their life partner …
My Big Fab Gay Garden Wedding Read More
I have always considered evergreens (conifers) to be the backbone of a garden as they provide both year round presence and interest. They vary greatly in size, shape and colour, …
Paul’s Plant Pick: The Season’s First Snow Fall Read More
Although the fall garden is rich in a blaze of beautiful golden, orange, red and burgundy tones, I continue to have a soft spot for white, even in autumn. One …
Paul’s Plant Picks: New Additions and a Sad Farewell Read More
As both night and daytime temperatures continue to cool, the garden reveals yet another of its features; an abundance of fall fruit and berries. This seems to have been a …
Paul’s Plant Pick: A Fruit-full Season Read More
Although I have traditionally not been a big fan of the colour pink in the garden, I confess that I was immediately drawn to Anemone hupehensis ‘Pretty Lady Diana’ when …
Paul’s Plant Pick: A Bright New Star in our Garden Read More
Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa) on Allium ‘Millenium’ Allium ‘Millenium’ piqued my interest back in May when we received about 20 plants for our annual TBG plant sale. As I have …
Paul’s Plant Picks: Alliums Continue to Shine Read More
I have always been drawn to the simple beauty of eggplants from the nodding flower buds that appear at the base of the leaves to the star-shaped papery blossoms eventually …
Paul’s Plant Picks: Beautiful Edibles Read More
One of the comments I most frequently hear when I do presentations or lead a garden tour is, ‘‘I want a perennial that blooms all season.’’ Personally, this has never …
Paul’s Plant Pick: Does it Flower all Season Long? Read More