A Garden for All
Last week, while desperately trying to keep up with my emails, I caught the reflection of falling snow on my computer screen. When I turned around, I was delighted to …
Paul’s Pick: Stop and Enjoy Mother Nature’s Special Magic Read More
It’s the Next Best Thing to a Trip to the Tropics Enjoy a TBG Lecture, Travel Fair and more! The fun starts at 5:30 p.m. “The Globe-Trotting Gardener” Floral Hall, …
TBG’s Travel Night on Thursday, February 7 Read More
The Toronto Botanical Garden provides a free, full-day program to Grade 4 students from priority high-needs schools from November to March. Living Winter is a curriculum-linked habitat program highlighting immersion …
Living Winter (for priority schools) Read More
Hong Kong Park is a tranquil oasis surrounded by skyscrapers and the slopes of VictoriaPeak in the neighbourhood of Central. On a stopover between Southeast Asia and home last January, …
Hong Kong Park Read More
As always, there are a number of items I could highlight in the garden this week. Choices and decisions! While shooting the winter pruning video with my very creative co-horts Stefan …
Paul’s Plant Pick: Imagine! Blossoms on December 14th! Read More
Can’t get away this winter? For bloggers’ views of some of the best gardens to visit and plants from exotic locales, check out these photo-packed blogs.      Veronica Sliva takes …
Blog Watch: Garden Travel Read More
We all lust after plants that we see on our travels, but bringing them home (even the most innocent looking plant cutting or seeds) could release an environmental tsunami of …
Top 10 invasive plants and pests Read More
Here is a Bergenia, commonly know as pigsqueak, which seems to be on steroids. This extra-large-growing selection first caught my attention in the Sweetpea’s display at Canada Blooms last March. …
Paul’s Plant Pick: Still Looking Great: Bergenia ‘Magic Giant’ Read More
“I have often been astonished at our indifference respecting the applause of those who have introduced useful plants into their country, the sight or fruit of which are to this …
From the Stacks: Ethnobotanical Literature and the Relationship Between People and Plants Read More
This month, I’m featuring two different bulbs—singing the praises of one that has just finished its spectacular flowering, and offering a tip about another that is probably growing indoors in …
Bulb of the Month: Nerine & Narcissus Read More