A Garden for All
In 2014, Canada Blooms is going wild! Garden designers and builders are creating acres of fantasy gardens that capture the imagination with vibrant colours, alluring fragrances and captivating designs to …
Buy your tickets early and save! 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
Evaluate the placement, form and framework of evergreens, trees and shrubs, ornaments and structures. Make notes for changes and additions. Carefully tie twine to damaged or crossing tree and shrub …
Winter: Jobs To Do 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
If you were to cross a snowdrop with a daffodil, you’d probably come close to describing the utterly charming Fravetye Giant (Leucojum aestivum). Being in a genus of its own, …
Bulb of the Month: Summer Snowflake GRAVETYE GIANT 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
Paul Zammit has chosen these trees and shrubs for their attractive appearance in the winter landscape. Betula nigra (River birch) Cotoneaster horizontalis var. perpusillus(Prostrate rock spray) Quercus robur f. fastigiata(Columnar …
Top trees and shrubs for winter Read More
Thanks to the support and hard work of six new volunteer library cataloguers, many new books are making their way onto our shelves, and subsequently into your hands. Below is …
From the Stacks: New Library Titles Read More