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Recently, | went on a rushed business trip to Los Angeles. While the only sightseeing | could do was driving from meeting to meeting, | learned some valuable lessons about the use of plants in gardens and public landscapes.
Of course, the first reaction is a gee-whiz stare at the royal palms, the birds-ofparadise, the tree ferns and the banana palms.
It s only after a while that | realized how effectively the Los Angelinos use their evergreens. While their choice of evergreen trees, shrubs and perennials is much greater than ours, so is their expertise in combining broad-leafed and coniferous trees, shrubs of different shapes, textures and leaf shapes, as well as shrubs with flowering plants.
But most impressive was the use of ground covers in southern California. Along the freeways, where we would expect grass, the highway department has planted a ground cover of ice plant Carpobrotus edulis, with a lush carpet of ivy Hedera canariensis in the shady areas of the underpasses. These ground covers need no mowing, and they look good year round.
Even industrial park boulevards are a tour de force of ground cover planting. Blue spires of agapanthus rise above a cover of low juniper. Massed plantings of yellow daylilies alternate with concrete median strips. Dramatic grass plumes stand out against a cover of ivy. And a pink-flowering evergreen
is clipped into neat cubes
mark a highway division. To someone accustomed to grass medians, Los
were a revelation.
James van Sweden has long advocated a greater use of ground covers in the garden and in the landscape. Now | see why.
Pamela Stagg Editor
THIS MONTH S COVER
There are few flowers more eagerly awaited than the crocus. And the lucky gardener with a sheltered, south-facing bed will be the first to welcome these harbingers of spring.
VISIONS OF SPRING
by Anne Marie Van Nest
March is a month filled with anticipation. Gradually, the first signs of spring are beginning to appear in the garden. This long awaited event is justifiable cause for a celebration. There is no better way to reaffirm that spring is coming than to visit one of many exceptional Floral displays.
The premier event for anxious gardeners wanting to enjoy visions of floral splendour is The Garden Club of Toronto Flower Show. The show, entitled, Castle Carnival will be at Casa Loma from March 2nd to 6th, 1988. Garden displays, flower arranging competitions, gardening advice and an opportunity to preview the plans for the renovation of the Castle Gardens. Tickets for the show are $5.00 for adults and $4.00 for seniors and students. For more information, please contact The Garden Club of Toronto at 447-5218.
Gardeners with a travelling spirit will not want to miss enjoying a visit to some of North Americas finest Flower shows.
March 5-13
New York Flower Show
Pier 90 (12th Ave. & W. 50th St.) New York, New York 212/757-0915
March 5-13
New England Spring Flower Show Bayside Exposition Center Boston, Mass. 617/536-9280
March 6-13
Philadelphia Flower Show Civic Center Philadelphia, Pa. 215/625-8250
March 28-June 5
Chicago International Festival of Flowers Navy Pier Chicago, 1Il. 312/751-2121
April 1-10
Garden Festival and National Home Show
C.N.E. Coliseum Toronto, Ontario 416/445-6641
April 1-10
Buffalo Home and Garden Show
Convention Center Buffalo, New York 716/852-2006
April 1-10
Vancouver Home & Garden Show
Exhibition Park Vancouver, B.C. 604/736-3331
April 6-10
International Flower Show
Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, Ga. 404/998-9800
Another opportunity to view Spring floral tributes is to visit an exhibition greenhouse. Forced bulbs, cyclamen, azaleas, cinerarias, primulas and many other flowering plants are at their peak during March in the following greenhouses.
Allan Gardens 392-7286
19 Horticultural Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5A 2P2 Sherbourne and Carlton Streets Open 10am-5pm Free Admission
Centennial Gardens Greenhouse Rathburn and Eimhurst Rds., in Etobicoke.
Located at the South end of the Park Open 10am-5pm Free Admission
Niagara Parks Commission Greenhouses Niagara Parkway just South of the Falls Open 9:30am-4pm Free Admission
Royal Botanical Gardens Mediterranean Greenhouse 527-1158
680 Plains Rd. West Burlington, Ontario Open 10am-5pm Admission: $1.
York Cemetery Greenhouse 221-4744 101 Senlac Ave. North York, Ontario
behind North York Civic Centre Open 9:30am-4pm Free Admission
SHERIDAN NURSERIES LIMITED
Where Great Gardens
At your closest Sheridan Garden Centre you will find the finest selection of nursery stock in Canada, including more than 750 varieties of plants and trees grown on Sheridan s own farms.
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And Sheridan 's nursery stock is guaranteed for one full year. At Sheridan Garden Centres you will also find qualified nurserymenwho will be pleased to help you in any way they can.
CONSERVING CAROLINIAN CANADA
by Pamela Stagg
Driving into Rondeau Provincial Park is like driving into a magnificent jungle. Tulip trees soar 150 feet above the road, with trunks that may be 40 inches in diameter. Virginia creeper and wild grape add to the jungle illusion, their long sinews tangling against the dark, sombre tree trunks.
In places, this mysterious jungle is swampy, stagnant water reflecting the smooth gray bark of the blue beech trees.
In fact, this jungle could be the forest W.H. Smith described when he wrote about what is now Etobicoke, in 1851.
The original forest was predominantly hardwood and covered the whole watershed. The trees were large and widely spaced and rose to a height of fifty feet or more without a limb. The interior of the woods was dim and cool, with hardly any underbrush, but with a deep covering of duff over the forest floor.
This jungle is the Carolinian forest -the deciduous hardwood mix that once covered the land around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Rondeau Park contains many of the trees and shrubs that characterize the Carolinian forest -- chestnut oak, sycamore, sassafras, spicebush and the shagbark hickory.
The Carolinian ecosystem also contains many distinctive wildflowers. The rare Nodding Pogonia, known only in two locations in Canada, calls Rondeau Park home. There's the Autumn Coralroot, an orchid with no chlorophyll that gets nourishment from the fungi in its corallike underground stems. Former Park Biologist Al Woodliff is fond of the
strikingly showy Swamp Rose Mallow, whose large pink flowers can now only be found in a handful of swamps in provincial parks. And there s Oswego Tea or Bee Balm, the Woodland relative of our more familiar garden Bergamot.
Rondeau Park is one of our best surviving examples of the Carolinian forest. Sadly, no virgin forest remains -even Rondeau was raided by such distinguished folk as Colonel Simcoe, who ordered 600 pine logs.
Now, wunder a unique co-operative venture, the last remnants of our Carolinian heritage will be preserved.
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Tel: (416) 640-6677, Fax(416) 640-6641
Open: Monday - Sunday 8:30-5:00pm
Catalogue $2.50
Over 400 different Herbs offered by mail or for personal shopping in our greenhouses. Let yourself be tempted to design a modern or medieval herb garden - we have everything you need: seeds, plants, books on everything herbal and even such garden ornaments as sundials and locomotive bells! Come for a fragrance treat!
Specializing in Herb Plants and Seeds.
In 1984, World Wildlife Fund Canada, The Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Ontario Heritage Foundation launched the Carolinian Canada programme, to identify and preserve what's left of the Carolinian ecosystem. In the past three years, the programme has found 36 sites needing protection in southern Ontario and in May of this year, the Ontario Government announced a commitment to fund protection efforts for these sites. The Ontario Ministries of Citizenship and Culture and Natural Resources are equal contributors to the provincial share of $1.8 million. Wildlife Habitat Canada, World Wildlife Fund Canada and The Nature Conservancy of Canada will be matching that sum.
Carolinian Canada is the first provincially-funded programme designed to protect areas of natural and scientific interest and the first large regional programme which evolved from the Natural Heritage League, a coalition of 28 different groups (government and non-government). It s also unique because the programme emphasizes alternative methods of protecting land such as private stewardship easements, leases and awards, instead of acquisitions.
Already the programme is making headway. In 1987, The Nature Conservancy of Canada helped with acquiring three
Carolinian tracts, Cedar Creek (which includes a rare patch of the American Lotus) in Essex area, Dorchester Swamp, in the Upper Thames Conservation Authority region and Wirada Woods, near Long Point.
The Carolinian Canada programme is an exciting one for gardeners, because it s a living textbook about the plants of our own region. The tracts will preserve a gene pool of plants best adapted to southern Ontario. And the Carolinian forests will show us first hand the habitats we gardeners should provide for Ontario wildflowers -- and their cultivated relatives.
This article was prepared with the assistance of the Nature Conservamcy of Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in Chatham.
March 15-28
Antoinette D'Andrea Oils of Italy
April 12-25 Hazel Harvey Watercolours
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PLANT SALES AT THE CENTRE
A Perennial Event
by Dorothy Whiteman
Due to overwhelming demand, it has been decided to include perennials as a regular feature in our Annual Fund Raising Plant Sale.
Over 90 of the most popular varieties (starting at $2.25) will be available on a first come, first served basis. Visit the Garden Hall Auditorium, May 18, 19 and 20th from 1lpm to 8pm. Shop on Members Preview Day, May 18th and receive your 10% discount.
Here at the Centre you can make your plant purchases and receive expert advice from our Horticulturist and our team of Master Gardeners. Our experienced plant sale volunteers are always on hand to assist you.
Early Pansy Sale
We are delighted to be able, once again, to offer these early pansies on April 9th and 10th from noon to 5pm.
Because of increased demand, we have ordered many of the solid colours, yellow, blue, red, as well as mixed colours -- all at only $1.35 per box. (Show your membership card for your 10% members discount.)
This sale is one of our fund raising events so please tell you friends and neighbours, remember, ITS YOUR SUPPORT THAT KEEPS US GROWING! Please encourage your friends to grow with us too.
VOLUNTEER CORNER
by Carolyn Dalgarno
The Civic Garden Centre will be participating in Garden Festival, which is now part of the 1988 National Home Show at the CNE, April 1st-10th.
This is a major Show attracting over 300,000 people. It is hoped that our presence will encourage new members for the Centre, increase interest in our courses, plant sales, special events and generally make the public aware of our facilities and resources. It is the major outreach programme for the year.
The Centre is also open during the time we are at the Show. We need volunteers to help us in both locations. If you have any spare time, please call 445-1552.
BARBARA STEVENSON
Barbara Stevenson is the new assistant manager of the Trellis Shop.
Barbara is a student of Landscape Architecture, an enthusiastic gardener and avid reader.
Included among her duties will be the purchasing of books for the Shop. Both Barbara and Jackie are happy to discuss books with our members and as always, will be happy to process your special book orders.
THE CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE
PRESENTS OUR ANNUAL FUND RAISING PLANT SALE
Members Pre-Order Sale May 18th, 1988 - 1:00 to 8:00 p.m.
PUBLIC SALE - THURSDAY, MAY 19th & FRIDAY, MAY 20th - 1:00 to 8:00 p.m.
BOXES @ $1.35
ANNUAL BEDDING PLANTS
] Ageratum - Blue Blazer, 15 cm
] Ageratum - Spindrift, white, 15 cm
] Alyssum - Snowcloth, white, 10 cm
] Alyssum - Midnight, violet, 10 cm
] Alyssum - Wonderland, rose, 10 cm
] Aster - Dwarf Queen, mix, 30 cm
] Aster - Early Charm, mix, 45 cm
] Aster - Powderpuff, mix, 60 cm
] *Browallia - Blue Troll, 20 em
] *Calendula - Fiesta Gitana, mix, 30 cm
] Carnation - Enfant deNice, mix, 35 cm
] Celosia - Fiery Feather, red, 30 cm
] Celosia - Apricot Brandy, 40 cm
] Cleome - H. Campbell, white, 1.2m
] Cleome - Rose Queen, pink, 1m
] Coleus - Wizard mix, 25 cm
] Coleus - Carefree mix, 30 cm
] Coleus - Carefree, red, 30 cm
] *Dahlia - Rigoletto, mix, 38cm
] Dianthus - Wee Willie, mix, 8 cm
] Dusty Miller - Silver Dust, 20 cm
] Lobelia - Blue Crystal, 15 cm
] Lobelia - White Lady, 15 cm
] Lobelia - Rosamond, rose, 15 cm
] Lobelia - Pendula, violet/rose trailer
] Marigold - Janie Bright Yellow, 20 cm
] Marigold -_Janie Orange, 20 cm
] Marigold - Janie Flame, bicol, 20 cm
] Marigold - Scarlet Sophia, 30 cm
] *Marigold - Inca Yellow, 35 cm
] *Marigold - Inca Orange, 35 cm
] Marigold - Diamond Jubilee, yel. 65 cm
] Marigold - Yellow Climax, 75-90 cm
] Nicotiana - Nicki Red, 40 cm
] Nicotiana - Nicki Rose, 40 cm
] Nicotiana - Nicki White, 40 cm
] Portulaca - Sundance, mixed
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] Salvia - Red Hot Sally, 25 cm
] Salvia - Red Pillar, 35 cm
] Salvia - Splendens Tall, red, 75 cm
] Salvia - Farinacea, Bl. Victoria, 45 cm
] Snapdragon - Floral Carpet mix, 20 cm
] Snapdragon - Little Darling mix, 30 cm
[ 1 Snapdragon - Carioca, mix, 50 cm
[ 1 Snapdragon - Rocket, mix, 90 cm
[ ] *Thunbergia - Susie, orange trailer
[ 1 Verbena - Blaze, scarlet, 20 cm
[ 1 Verbena - Showtime, solid mix, 30cm
[ ] Verbena - Trinidad, pink, 25 cm
[ 1 *Vinca - Bright Eye, white/red, 25 cm
[ 1 *Vinca - Little Linda, rosy pink, 25 cm
[ ] Zinnia - Burpeeana, mix, 50 cm
[ ] Zinnia - Pulcino, mix, 35 cm
[ ] Zinnia - State Fair, mix 90 cm
PETUNIAS
Single flowered - Grandiflora
[ ] Red Flash
[ 1 White Flash
[ ] Yellow Magic
[ ] Burgundy, Velvety wine
[ ] Blue Lace, deep blue/purple
[ 1 Rose Cloud, deep rose
Cascading - Grandiflora
[ 1 White Cascade
[ ] Chiffon Cascade, It. mauve
[ 1 Pink Cascade
[ 1 Royal Cascade, purple
[ 1 Red Cascade, deep red
Picotee - Grandiflora
[ 1 Red Picotee
[ ] Blue Picotee
[ 1 Rose Picotee
* = 4 per box, all others 6 per box
Double Flowered
[ ] *Snowbird, white
[ ] *Honey Bunch, sal. pink
[ ] *Cardinal, red
[ ] *Purple Pirouette, viol/white
[ 1 *Strawberry Tart, red/white
Floribunda
[ ] Coral Madness
[ ] Summer Madness
[ ] Plum Madness
[ ] White Madness
[ 1 Red Madness
IMPATIENS
4/box - $1.45
[ ] *Novette - Scarlett
[ ] *Novette - Orange
[ ] *Novette - White
[ ] *Novette - Pink
[ 1 *Novette - Wild Rose
[ ] *Novette - Salmon
[ ] *Novette - Mixed
[ ] *Showstopper - Pink
[ ] *Blitz - Orange
[ ] *Blitz - Red
[ ] *Blitz - Rose
[ ] *Blitz - White
New Guinea Sunshine Impatiens
4 pot - $1.99
[ ] Cirus - white, gr & yel. foliage
[ ] Cosmos - mauve rose, gr & yel. fol
[ 1 Gemini - rose pink, gr & yel. fol
[ ] Mirach - red, gr. & yel fol.
[ 1 Nova - orange, bronze & yel. fol
[ ] Sunregal - two tone mve, bronze fol
[ ] Twilight - two tone orange, bronze & yel. foliage
GERANIUMS
From Cuttings - 4 pots - $1.99
[ ] Empress Irene, orange/red
[ ] Kim,red
[ 1 Pink Expectations, pink
[ ] Snowmass, white
[ 1 Wendyann, salmon
Fischer Geraniums - 4 pots - $2.19
[ ] Blues, rose/pink
[ ] Schone Helena, salmon rose
[ ] Tango, red
Seedling Geraniums by the Flat
3% pots - $25.00, 18 per flat
[ ] Pinto Red
[ ] Pinto Pink
[ ] Pinto White
Ivy Geraniums - 4 pots - $2.19
[ 1 Ivy-Sybil Holmes, double pink
[ ] Ivy-Tavira, double red
[ 1 Ivy-Harvard, double burgundy
BEGONIAS
Fibrous Begonias - 4/box - $1.45
[ ] *Scarletta - red, green fol
[ 1 *Viva - white, green foliage
[ ] *Linda - salmon/pink, green fol
[ 1 *Vodka - scarlet, bronze foliage
[ ] *Gin - salmon/pink, bronze fol
[ ] *Whiskey - white, bronze foliage
Nonstop Tuberous Begonias
4 pots - $2.49
[ 1Red
[ ] Yellow
[ ] Salmon
[ 1 Apricot
VEGETABLES
4/box, $1.35
[ ] Onions - Sweet Spanish
[ ] Parsley
[ 1 Peppers - California Wonder, sweet green, 72 days
[ ] Peppers - Shepherd, sweet red, 68 days
Tomatoes
[ ] Early Girl, 52 days
[ 1 Better Boy, 70 days
[ 1 Beefsteak, 96 days
* [ 1 Sweet 100, cherry, 65 days
[ 17 pot Tiny Tim, Dwarf, $3.50
[ 110 pot, Patio prize, $4.99
A large variety of Perennials will be available in the Garden Hall Auditorium.
10 HANGING BASKETS
- $16.95
A large variety of hanging baskets for sunny and shady locations will be available for your selection.
DRACAENA
$1.99
[ 13% pot
FUCHSIA
4 pot - $1.99
[ 1 Mixed
ALL PLANT MATERIAL SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY. SUBSTITUTIONS MAY BE MADE.
IT S YOUR SUPPORT THAT KEEPS US GROWING
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PRE-ORDERS -- WEDNESDAY, MAY 18th, 1988 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
PUBLIC SALE - THURSDAY & FRIDAY, MAY 19th & 20th 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Plants listed on this order form are greenhouse grown for the Civic Garden Centre. Take advantage of the members sale to ensure the full range of plants and your discount, PLEASE ORDER BEFORE APRIL 25th, 1988.
Your selection is to be picked up Wednesday, May 18th from 1 to 8 pm ONLY.
A 10% member s discount will apply to advance orders only and only if the order is received prior to APRIL 25th, 1988.
Orders charged to Mastercard or Visa accounts will receive 5% discount only.
EVERGREENS IN MARCH
by Robert Schuelke
There are wonderful spring days in early March, and these are the days to visit evergreen gardens. After all, if an evergreen doesn't look good in March, what good is it? Spring is for bulbs, summer is for roses, fall is for sugar maples, and January is for seed catalogues. February and March are for evergreens.
One of the best places to see evergreens this time of year is the University of Guelph in late winter. Most of the evergreens were planted in the mid '70s, so you can see what 10-15 year old specimens look like.
The Guelph Arboretum has a large collection of low-growing junipers, different cultivars are planted next to each other for easy comparison. The 15 year old Blue Rug Juniper Juniperus horizontalis Glauca is a 6 meter
diameter circle only 10 centimeters high. It 's one of the best ground covers and appears to be a better plant than the cultivar Wiltonii is next to it. The Wiltonii (which is confusingly called Blue Rug" as well) is the same size but more burned from the winter sun.
A Pfitzer Juniper J. chinesis Pfitzeriana and a Compact Pfitzer both planted in 1975 are an identical 4 meters in diameter and 1 meter high. Obviously, one doesn't always get what the name indicates. In the same bed are a Golden Pfitzer and a Blue Pfitzer which are true to their names and give a good indication of the Pfitzer s colour differences. Their size also shows that none of the Pfitzer Junipers are good as foundation plants and will quickly outgrow their beds.
Yews are one of the best evergreens for
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winter because they keep their dark green colour. However, in full winter sun, yews can be disappointing. They can get badly burned or can turn a dull olive drab. Since all the Guelph Arboretum yews are out in the open, the ones that retain their colour here can probably be used almost anywhere.
Taxus media Nigra has grown into a dense 1 meter by 2 meter spread in ten years and is probably the best yew in the collection. Taxus media Thayerae has a good colour in a 12 year old, open 1% meter by 1% meter shrub. Two other good yews which are low growing are Taxus x Hunnewelliana and the cultivar Taxus x Hunnewelliana Richard Horsey . These two are hybrids of the Japanese Yew and the Canadian Yew. Sadly, | haven't been able to find them for sale.
A few other plants which are small enough for most home gardens. A 12 year old Fletcher's Dwarf Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga Menziesii Fletcheri ) has a lovely thick dark blue-green foliage. It s only Y2 meter high with a 1¥%2 meter spread.
The 12 year old Globe Blue Spruce (Picea pungens Globosa ) isn't a globe but a perfectly shaped 2 meter blue pyramid. | have an uneasy feeling about the label. If it s correct, this is the way to keep a Blue Spruce small. In the same time span, a regular Blue Spruce would be 4-5 meters high and rapidly headed for 10 meters.
The Dwarf Serbian Spruce (Picea Omorika Nana ) is another well shaped blue spruce only 1 meter tall after 13 years.
The Compact Alpine Fir (Abies lasiocarpa Compacta ) has grown into a 3 meter pyramid in 12 years. This splendid evergreen could be chosen over a number of more common, larger spruces and firs.
These are only a few of the plants in the collection. I've been to the Guelph Arboretum in summer and early fall. In both seasons the small evergreens tend to get lost. But a trip in late winter shows them off at their best against the brown grass and leafless shrubs. It's also worth taking a pencil and paper to make a shopping list.
Civic Garden Centre member Robert Schuelke has 300 plants in bis one acre Whitbygarden.
Milne HouseGarden Club presents A FAik ON SHOW ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW MAY 12,13,1988
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COMING EVENTS AT THE CENTRE
MAR 8 North Toronto Horticultural Society Meeting
9 lkebana International General Meeting 6:30pm
10 Basic Flower Arranging (Regis. deadline: March 8)
Members $35., Non-members $40.
Instructors: Ella Irving 9:45am Mary Linney 1:30pm Lorna Rodger 8pm
16 Pressed Flowers (Regis. deadline: March 11) 1:30pm
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Members $20., Non-members $25.
Renovating Old Gardens (Regis. deadline: March 14)
Members $30., Non-members $35. 7:30pm
Speaker: Jenniffer Hale on Nutrient Support for Plant Fertility
23 Civic Garden Centre's Members Night 7:30
Speaker: Professor Ed Fife on Contemporary Garden Design 24 Canadian Chrysanthemum & Dahlia Society Meeting 8pm
26 Basic Outdoor Gardening (Regis. deadline: March 23) 10am
Members $30., Non-members $35. 27
30 Renovating Old Gardens (Regis. deadline: March 14) 7:30pm
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Members $30., Non-members $35.
Landscape Technique (Regis. deadine: March 23) 7:30pm
Members $30., Non-members $35. 5 Mens Garden Club 8pm
8,9 & 10 Toronto Gesneriad Society, Plant Show, Sale & Conference Noon Judges School, Demonstrations, Educational Exhibits
8,9 & 10
Garden Centre 's PANSY SALE Noon
International General Meeting 6:30pm 13 Introductory Bonsai (Regis. Deadline: April 11) 7:30pm
Members $35., Non-members $40.
16 Society of Ontario Nut Growers Auction 9am
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TORONTO FIELD NATURALISTS
The pioneer log cabin in Sunnybrook Park will again be open to the public on Sunday afternoons from 12 noon to 4 p.m., May 1 through October 10 (Thanksgiving).
The Toronto Field Naturalists will offer literature on the plants, animals and park systems of Metropolitan Toronto, free maps of bicycle and nature trails, as well as their own newsletters and information about their outdoors programme.
Whether you are interested in trees, wildflowers, birds, geology, insects, or mushrooms, drop in and discover what outdoor Toronto has going for you.
THE SEED CONNECTION
As most members are aware, the Trellis Shop now carries some Thompson & Morgan seeds. In addition to those in the shop, Anne-Marie has the Thompson & Morgan catalogue which offers their complete range of seeds of all types of plants, including trees & shrubs, many of them rare and exotic. There is a catch however, Thompson and Morgan insist on a minimum of $20.00 order to Canada. If there is enough interest, we can pool orders and submit one large order from the Civic Garden Centre. The catalogue can be seen during regular shop hours, and your list should be given to Anne Marie as soon as possible.
The Trellis Shop
Visit the Trellis Shop for Toronto's best selection of gardening books and the city 's most extensive collection of flower-arranging supplies. You 'll also find gifts for gardeners, fertilizers, garden and house plant supplies, bird feeders, floral stationery and film.
ARRIVING THIS MONTH
Candle Supports - holds candles firmly in candle holders.
Floaters - Lights to float in containers -for table centrepieces and party lighting.
Flower Arranging Centrepiece - 8% diameter for arranging short stemmed flowers.
Garden Shears - rust resistant carbon steel -- excellent for Tkebana and Bonsai .
Flower Shears - for right or left handed use -- high carbon steel, chrome finish -will cut wire, twigs etc.
Flower Arrangers for candlesticks -- clear plastic cups to hold water and flowers around candlesticks.
Located in The Civic Garden Centre 777 Lawrence Avenue East Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1P2 Telephone: 445-1552
See inside front cover for the hours we re open.
BOOK REVIEWS
by Mary Ballie
COLOUR IN YOUR GARDEN
By Penelope Hobhouse
W. Collins $39.95
The happy blend of flower and foliage is most impressive in this extremely wellthought out book which points out how colour, well handled, is the basis of a good garden. A huge list of plants grouped in colours for each season of the year, as well as requirements and essential factors that help the gardener to use them well. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour plates. It is a real treasure to own.
PRIVATE GARDENS OF ENGLAND
By Penelope Hobhouse
Harmony/New York $60.00
380 KINGSTON ROAD EAST AJAX, ONTARIO LIS 487
Highway 2, 1 mile east of Harwood Rd. direct Toronto line: 686-2151
e Perennials e Annuals e Nursery Stock e Supplies
Specializing in ...EXOTIC TROPICALS!
* Aroids * Bonsai
* Bougainvillea * Bromeliads
* Cactus * EicUSs
* Gesneriads * Hederae
* Hibiscus * Orchids
Open 7 days a week
Thirty-three of Englands most impressive gardens are described in this book, from small cottage gardens to sweeping estates telling how the various owners have dealt with the sites, each one of them in their unique settings. A wealth of fascinating landscaping ideas. Illustrated with beautiful colour pictures by Hugh Palmer.
Mary Bailie is a member of the Garden Club ofToronto.
SOIL TESTING
The Civic Garden Centre's soil testing service has become a valuable resource for Toronto 's home and professional gardeners. During the year, November 1986 to October 1987 the service was used to test 161 samples of soil -- 72 from members and 89 from nonmembers. The majority of tests were done during the busy planting season (April to June, September and October) by Andrew McNeill, the Centre s volunteer soil testing manager. (Andrew also led walks through the park last summer as a volunteer tour guide.)
Andrew and his new volunteer assistant, Leonard Oxford, will be happy to test your problem garden soil this spring for its pH and salt levels. Instruction sheets are available at the Centre. The fee for this service is $5.00 for members and $7.00 for non-members.
MEMBERS PROGRAMME
March 23, 1988 7:30pm
Professor Ed Fife \
The Ontario Association of President Landscape Architecture
* Contemporary Garden Design April 26, 1988 7:30pm
Barrie Porteous One of Ontario s Outstanding Gardeners
* A Garden in Cottage Country
This will also be the CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE S ANNUAL MEETING
refreshments
£ WhiteRose NURSERIES
THE PLANTS OF 1988
by Pamela Stagg
If you've caught Allen Paterson s infectious love of old roses, you'll want to see the 106 new old roses at Pickering Nurseries. For the first time, Pickering is offering a wide selection of David Austin s English hybrids -- 39 in all. Fairly new in Canada, these roses combine the shape and fragrance of old roses with the repeat-blooming characteristics of their modern relatives. New antiques from Pickering include the subtly striped Gallica Oecillet Flamand and a lovely species rose from China, Rosa primula.
Richter s herbs have added to their list of scented geraniums with three new varieties. Among their new herbs are Indian madder, a good dye-plant and tricolour sage. The sage needs a little mulching in my Toronto garden -- the striking leaf colour is worth the trouble.
Because of the long lead times needed to grow saleable trees, Grimo s Nut Nursery isn't offering any new varieties this year. But many of their old varieties will be new to most gardeners. A case in point: 21 types of Persian walnuts, 10 Heartnuts and a Buartnut.
SOURCES
Pickering Nurseries
670 Kingston Rd.
Pickering, Ontario L1V 1A6
Richters
Goodwood, Ontario LOC 1A0
Grimo s Nut Nursery
R.R. 3, Lakeshore Road
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario LOS 1J0
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CHURCH FLOWERS by Ella Irving
Due to an excellent suggestion made by Mrs. Lois Hampton, one of our most faithful Floral Art students, we are changing the date of the Church Flower Workshop from Tuesday, July 5th to Friday, July 8th. This means that flowers purchased for the workshop can be taken to Church for the weekend decoration.
Ella Irving is the Centre s Flower Arranging Co-ordinator.
CATCH THE GARDENING SPIRIT
We would like to welcome you on Sunday, April 24th, 10am-5pm, to a great day of information and education. We have six excellent presentations as well as having our horticulturist and master gardeners on hand to answer your questions.
PROGRAMME
David Tomlinson, Landscape Architect & Garden Designer Shrubs and Their Companion Plants
June Stone, Gardener Extraordinaire Garden Adornment
Jim Belisle, Architect and Sheila Murray, Landscape Architect Personalizing Your Own Garden
Trevor Ashbee, Superb Plantsman
The Rockery from Scratch
A step by step demonstration.
Mary Perlmutter, Noted Organic Gardener Country Gardening, the Organic Way"
George Pagowski, Horticulturalist, Royal Botanical Garden Gardening in Small Spaces
A demonstration in baskets, bowls and boxes.
For those who wish, a delicious, nutricious buffet lunch will be served in the Floral Hall. However, if you choose to bring your lunch, coffee will be available.
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* Free borrowing privileges from Canada s largest horticultural library with more than 6,000 titles currently available, plus journals.
* A 10% discount on regularly priced merchandise over $2 at the Trellis Shop.
* A discounted registration fee when enrolling in our classes.
* Special members discount for many special events.
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