The classic Rock Garden destination at the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) in Ontario re-opened to the public in May 2016 after a three-year, $20-million rejuvenation project in the garden, located between the cities of Hamilton and Burlington. The original Rock Garden was a Depression-era project that transformed an abandoned gravel pit into a majestic bowl using 10,000 … [Read more...] about RBG opens rejuvenated Rock Garden
Royal Botanical Gardens
Restoration and rejuvenation at Royal Botanical Gardens
Plants have a habit of growing. And growing and growing and growing. That’s what has been happening at Ontario’s oldest botanical garden. The tiny dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) planted on the grounds of the Royal Botanical Gardens in 1952 (the first in Canada) now towers overhead. In the rock garden, ground-covering plants and shrubs spread their gnarled branches … [Read more...] about Restoration and rejuvenation at Royal Botanical Gardens
