Win tickets to see The Gardener documentary

Did you know? Canada is home to one of North America’s most spectacular private gard online pharmacy buy paxil with best prices today in the USA ens. We’ve written twice about Les Quatre Vents, near La Malbaie, Quebec (here and here) and at last I have an excuse to write about it again. Because it, and its creator Francis […]

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The weird, wonderful Ruth Bancroft Garden

The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California What could be better on a cold, blustery November Wednesday than a quick trip to California? This almost-wordless visit takes us to the Ruth Bancroft Garden – the dry climate garden that was the first of many private gardens to come under the protective wing of the […]

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Les Quatre Vents, Le Pigeonnier

Le Pigeonnier and its garden is one of 24 garden spaces at Les Quatre Vents If you love gardens and live in Canada, be proud that one of North America’s finest gardens is right here. Well, right here and a little over to our right – near La Malbaie, Québec. It’s Les Quatre Vents. Few […]

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The green, green grass of Manulife Financial

The headquarters of Manulife Financial on Bloor Street East If you’ve walked or driven along that windy strip of Bloor Street, east of Church, you’ve seen the velvety carpet of green in the gated surrounds of the Manulife Financial headquarters. It’s often called the best lawn in the city, and there’s a reason. It’s creeping […]

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The Hobbit House of Preston Hollow, Dallas

The drawbridge entrance to a very special garden in P online pharmacy buy addyi with best prices today in the USA reston Hollow, Dallas TX Now that The Hobbit movie has arrived in theatres, have a peep at this hobbity garden we visited with the 2010 Garden Writers Symposium. I wo online pharmacy buy wellbutrin […]

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June Callwood Park: Kindness grows in the city

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A Laneway Surprise: A Secret Rose Garden

Roses ex buy kamagra polo online youngchiropractic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/kamagra-polo.html no prescription pharmacy tend all along the fence. All driveways should be this lucky. Some gardens simply stun you, particularly when they sneak up on you unawares. I stumbled upon this garden gem while walking my dog the other day. Bored with the same old route, I’d taken […]

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Through the Garden Gate 2011: A preview

A gaggle of writers under the tall trees   Sure, you know Hig online pharmacy buy tamiflu with best prices today in the USA h Park, Old Mill or The Kingsway. But did you know the Village of Swansea is just around the corner? Swansea? Yes, Swansea – one of Toronto’s best-kept secrets. Long-time residents […]

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We need our parks, and Parks People need us

 Historic industrial space becomes an innovative park at the Brick Works   Despite the grey skies, a sunshine of ideas bloomed at the Toronto Alliance for Better Parks Summit last Saturday – ideas about the importance of parks to people, and importance of people to our city’s parks. Where better to do this than at the Evergreen Brick […]

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