toronto – Garden Making

Plant Fair 2023: Parkdale & Toronto Horticultural Societies

Plant Fair 2023: Parkdale & Toronto Horticultural Societies is pleased to announce the return of their much loved plant fair! Come one, come all.

Fun for gardeners at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

This display of a working greenhouse includes everything needed to grow tomatoes year round, including live bees.

I’ve gone to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair every November since 1994, but it has only been the past few years I’ve noticed all the gardening and agricultural displays. I’ve … Read more

Fall chrysanthemum show

A display of different mums at the Centennial Park Conservatory

I went to Centennial Park Conservatory in Etobicoke, Ont. last week to see the mums on display at their annual chrysanthemum show. The gardeners at the conservatory get their cuttings of … Read more

The source of city plants

One of many greenhouses at Centennial Park in Toronto, devoted to growing plants that will be distributed in the gardens and containers across the city.

When I see the geraniums, grasses and sweet potato vines on Toronto sidewalks every year, I’ve never spent much time wondering where they all came from. One day in April, … Read more

Student Design Challenge at Evergreen Brick Works

The blue-green path resembling a river at the newly designed site at Evergreen Brick Works.

I went to the official opening of a new site at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto this week. The design of Gloria Perez and Jessica Gafic won the inaugural Ontario … Read more