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Trial Garden

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Trial Garden Feedback: Help Shape Future Plant Selections

As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance the beauty and variety of our gardens, we’d like to invite you to share your feedback and input on our Trial Garden plants. …

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Vote in the Entrance Planter Contest: Paul vs. Tanya

In early June, Paul Zammit from Niagara Parks College and our 2024 Guest Conductor, alongside Tanya Carvalho from Ball FloraPlant, each designed a stunning entrance planter. In late July, these …

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Trial Gardens in partnership with BallFloraPlant

These garden beds include new annual plant introductions designed in partnership with Ball FloraPlant and Selecta One. Hundreds of new annuals and perennials will be on display in our containers, …

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Hummingbirds and Salvias… magnets for photographers

By Veronica Sliva August 2021 – When I visited the Trial Gardens last week photographers were lining the path in front of the ‘Purple and Bloom’ Salvias and then further …

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Midsummer in the Trial Garden

2021 Trial Garden Blog By Veronica Sliva Though it is midsummer I’d say it feels more like “mid-rain”. Every day for the past month it seems we have been in …

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Trial Garden: Heat, Rain and the Magic Ingredient

Trial Garden Summer 2021 Blog by Veronica Sliva I paid a visit to the TBG on June 29th, a week since my last visit and the trial gardens are maturing. …

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Nearing the One Month Mark in the Trial Garden

By Veronica Sliva It’s been nearly a month since the Trial Garden was planted. Since then we have had hot days, cold days, wet days, and dry days. No matter …

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Trial Garden Weeks 2 and 3

Most plants unaffected by cold weather By Veronica Sliva The end of May brought with it an unexpected cold spell that sent many gardeners into a bit of a panic. …

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New Trial Garden Offers Lessons for Home Gardeners 

Week 1. Coleus Stands Out By Veronica Sliva  A Blooms Story: From Breeder to Trial, an event that brings a trial garden like no other was recently launched at the TBG. This is a new and exciting partnership …

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WHAT'S ON

Apr 22
April 22 @ 10:00 am - June 24 @ 11:00 am

Keep Fit in Spring (10 sessions)

May 8
May 8 @ 6:00 pm - May 29 @ 9:00 pm

Floral Design Program: Classic Design Fundamentals 1

May 14
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Guided Breathwork Experience: Connection

May 14
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Spring Watercolour Workshop

May 15
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Milne House Club Flower Show

May 24
5:30 am - 7:00 am

Dawn Chorus Birding

Jun 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Drag Story Time with Gila Münster

Jun 2
June 2 @ 6:00 pm - June 23 @ 9:00 pm

Floral Design Program: Special Occasion Flowers

Jun 5
June 5 @ 6:00 pm - June 26 @ 9:00 pm

Floral Design Program: Classic Design Fundamentals 2

Jun 6
9:00 am - 4:00 pm Event Series

P.A. Day Camp 2024/2025

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HOSTING AN EVENT?

Indoor and Outdoor Event Spaces

September 17, 2021October 17, 2024

NEED GARDENING ADVICE?

Ask a Toronto Master Gardener

December 1, 2020January 5, 2021

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  • The Wildlife–Friendly Vegetable Gardener
  • The Living Landscape
  • The Layered Garden
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  • Botanical Soaps
  • A Tapestry Garden
  • A Plethora of Pollinator Publications

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