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How tos:
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How to Build a Compost Pile
How to Prune an Annabelle Hydrangea
How to Prune a Weeping Mulberry 
Pinch Pruning for Perennials
Pruning a Climbing Rose
Planting Heirloom Sweet Peas: Father Cupani's
Overwintering Annuals
Planting Bare-Root Roses 
Selecting Perennials for Easy Care 
Sharpening your garden tools
Taking Cuttings Without Fear 
Where to buy White Clover in Toronto

Design ideas:
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Tricks for Small Gardens

On specific plants:
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Love Your Dandelions, They're Dynamic 
Warning: Siberian Elm Need a Firm Hand
Why Isn't Your Forsythia Blooming?

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Toronto Gardens is both a noun and a verb

The gardens of this city, and how Torontonians imagine, create and care for them.

Brought to you by the muddy hands of Helen Battersby and Sarah Battersby, sisters and neighbours who come from long lines of English gardeners. We garden in Toronto's east end, but poke our green noses into growing spaces all over the city.

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Toronto Gardens was tickled to have been nominated in the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards

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Blasts from the Past

  • ►  2012 (15)
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      • Handmade Garden Projects
      • Beach Garden Society Plant Sale
      • On my way from before to after
    • ►  April (6)
      • Pruning clematis: Simplify the ABCs
      • Garden Daytrip: The Niagara Falls of daffodils
      • Garden Daytrip: Corpse flower at Niagara's Floral ...
      • June Callwood Park: Kindness grows in the city
      • Something there is that loves a dry stone wall
      • Garden Daytrip: Richters and an Easter Art Show
    • ►  March (3)
      • FoodShare's VegeQuarium at Canada Blooms 2012
      • Canada Blooms 2012: A few highlights
      • Away, but still thinking of you
    • ►  February (2)
      • Last-minute love: The Untamed Garden by Sonia Day
      • Apparently I Need a Southern Gentleman
    • ►  January (1)
      • Temporary Winterscaping
  • ►  2011 (96)
    • ►  December (5)
      • Making snowflake flowers (or flower snowflakes)
      • Toronto Botanical Gardens Open House 2012
      • Elf-sized gardens to charm your kids
      • Christmas by candlelight at Allan Gardens
      • Gifts for tree-huggers
    • ►  November (30)
      • Garden travel: Indianapolis Museum of Art
      • Everyday lessons from castle gardens
      • Getting around the utility shed problem
      • An old family friend in the toolkit
      • Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
      • Recycle an old hose into a bee hotel
      • A private garden in Wales
      • Garden travel: Harold & Frances Holt Physic Garden...
      • A "West Coast" Toronto garden
      • Close encounters of the hummingbird kind
      • Lust List: River Birch
      • Rocks to riches: Story of a garden
      • TTC Garden Tour, Part 2: Dupont Station
      • Miscanthus moments
      • Goodbye corkscrew hazel; Hello fothergilla
      • November Blooms Day in Toronto 2011
      • Love/Hate: Lily of the Valley
      • TTC Garden Tour, Part 1: Victoria Park Station
      • Worth repeating: Black tar spot on maples
      • Flowers for the fallen
      • Sweets for the nose in November
      • Battle of the bulb-planting tools
      • Such diversity in two short city blocks
      • Be a friend to Anemones
      • Darned good 'Bloodgood' Japanese maple
      • A living willow fence
      • Two less-known bulbs for dry shade
      • Daisies in November?
      • Plant profile: Patrinia scabiosifolia
      • Concrete art for the rest of us
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      • The topic is tropical (houseplants, that is)
      • Improbable Magic of Flower Shows: Canada Blooms
      • GGW Picture This: Awakening... the garden
      • Fuel up for the big dig
      • Snowdrop Alert, March 2010
      • Technique Tips: Pruning Weeping Mulberry
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Gardeny spaces in the GTA

  • Allan Gardens
  • Casa Loma Gardens
  • Centennial Park Conservatory
  • Cloud Forest Conservatory
  • Durham Water-Efficient Demo Garden
  • Edwards Gardens
  • Evergreen Brick Works
  • Green Roofs Demonstration Project
  • High Park
  • Humber Arboretum
  • Maple Cottage/Maple Leaf Forever Park
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery & Arboretum
  • Parkwood Estate, Oshawa
  • Riverwood Conservancy Gardens, Mississauga
  • Rosetta McClain Gardens
  • Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington
  • Spadina House Gardens
  • Toronto & Region Conservation Authority
  • Toronto Botanical Garden (formerly the Civic Garden Centre)
  • Toronto Island Community
  • Toronto Music Garden
  • Toronto Public Gardens & Conservatories
  • Village of Yorkville Park

Great Toronto Links We Like

  • Backyard Chickens in Toronto
  • Friends of the Don East
  • Garden Toronto
  • GreenHere Urban Reforestation
  • L.E.A.F. Toronto
  • Not Far From the Tree
  • Toronto Balconies Bloom
  • Toronto Community Gardens Network
  • Toronto Entomologists' Association
  • Toronto Field Naturalists
  • Toronto Go Natural Factsheets
  • Toronto Green Community
  • Toronto Master Gardeners
  • Toronto Parks & Trees Foundation
  • Toronto Soil Map
  • Toronto Street Tree Program
  • Toronto Weather Statistics
  • Tree Guy Todd Irvine at Spacing

Join a GTA hort society

  • Agincourt Garden Club
  • Aurora Garden & Hort Society
  • Beach Garden Society
  • East York Garden Club
  • Lake Simcoe South Garden Society
  • Leaside Garden Society
  • Markham Garden Society
  • Milton & District Hort Society
  • Mount Albert Garden & Hort Society
  • Newmarket Horticultural Society
  • North Toronto Horticultural Society
  • North York Horticultural Society
  • Ontario Horticultural Association (Find a society near you)
  • Parkdale & Toronto Horticultural Societies
  • Richmond Hill Garden & Horticultural Society
  • Riverdale Horticultural Society
  • Scarborough Garden & Hort Society
  • Stouffville Horticultural Society
  • Swansea Horticultural Society
  • The Garden Club of Toronto
  • Thornhill Garden & Hort Society

Find fellow fan(atic)s

  • Canadian Chrysanthemum & Dahlia Society
  • Canadian Hemerocallis Society
  • Canadian Iris Society
  • Canadian Organic Growers Toronto
  • Canadian Peony Society
  • Canadian Rose Society
  • Greater Toronto Rose & Garden Hort Society
  • Greater Toronto Water Garden Society
  • Mycological Society of Toronto
  • North American Native Plant Society
  • Ontario Daylily Society
  • Ontario Hosta Society
  • Ontario Rock Garden & Hardy Plant Society
  • Society of Ontario Nut Growers
  • Southern Ontario Orchid Society
  • Toronto African Violet Society
  • Toronto Bonsai Society
  • Toronto Cactus & Succulent Club
  • Toronto Iris Society
  • Toronto Region Rhododendron & Hort Society

Ontario and Canadian links

  • Canada Blooms
  • Canadian Gardening Mag Online
  • Canadian Plant Hardiness Zones
  • Canadian Wildlife Federation Wild About Gardening
  • Compost Council of Canada
  • Evergreen Native Plants Database
  • Garden Making Magazine
  • i can garden
  • Landscape Ontario
  • Marjorie Harris' Blog
  • Natural Resources Canada's Insects & Diseases of Canadian Forests ID
  • Niagara Butterfly Conservatory
  • Niagara Parks Garden Trail
  • OMAFRA's Ontario Weed Gallery
  • Ontario Ferns
  • Ontario Garden Tours List, from Melissa
  • Ontario Grasses
  • Ontario Shade Gardener
  • Ontario Species at risk (S/SW Ontario)
  • Ontario Trees
  • Ontario Wildflowers
  • Pollination Canada
  • Seeds of Diversity (Heritage Seeds)
  • Spring Bulbs by A. Steinbergs
  • Tallgrass Ontario
  • Tree Canada
  • U of Guelph Insect Collection

International Gardening Links

  • Adam Dimech's Story of Flowers
  • All-America Selections Winning Seeds
  • American Clematis Society
  • American Hemerocallis Society
  • American Hydrangea Society
  • BugBios at Insects.org
  • BugGuide ID
  • Bumblebee.org
  • Clematis International
  • Clematis.com
  • Cornell Living Sculpture
  • Cornell Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners
  • Cornell Woody Plants Database
  • Dave's Garden
  • Earth Worm Digest
  • Fine Gardening Mag Online
  • Garden Web
  • Herb Society of America
  • Horticulture Mag Online
  • Human Flower Project
  • Kemper Center Plant Finder, Missouri Botanical Gardens
  • MushroomExpert.com
  • MyFolia
  • Orchid Care
  • Paghat's Garden
  • Peony.org ID Utility
  • Perennial Plant Assoc. Plants of Year
  • Pollinator Partnership
  • RHS Award of Garden Merit Plant Finder
  • RHS Plant Finder
  • The Butterfly Website
  • The Plant Encyclopedia Wiki
  • The Pollination Pages
  • The Seed Site, devoted entirely to seeds
  • U.S. Plant Hardiness Zones
  • Urban Gardens Web
  • Weed Identification (Illinois C-FAR)

Garden Retail

  • All Things Organic (Vermiculture)
  • Beaver Valley Stone
  • Bill's Garden Centre (Pape Avenue)
  • Bluestem Ornamental Grasses & Willows
  • Botanus, bulbs & accessories
  • Chuck Chapman Iris
  • Connon Nurseries
  • Country Squires Garden (Address/Contact)
  • Cubits Organic Living on Etsy
  • Dominion Seed House
  • East End Garden Centre (Queen East)
  • East of Eliza (Review/Contact/Florist, Garden Centre)
  • eco|stems (Eco-friendly florist)
  • Edible Toronto Farmers' Markets
  • Gardenimport
  • Hatcher Florist (Eco-friendly)
  • Hortico (Roses, Shrubs)
  • Hosta Fever, Barrie
  • Humber Nurseries
  • Kingston Road Flower Market (Selection!)
  • Lee Valley Garden Tools
  • Lost Horizons
  • Mason House (formerly Mason Hogue) Gardens
  • Native Plants in Claremont
  • Pickering Nurseries (Roses)
  • Plant World
  • Richters (Herbs)
  • Sheridan Nurseries
  • Stokes Seeds
  • Terra Edibles Heirloom Seeds
  • The Potting Shed (Daylilies, Hostas)
  • Toronto Gardener's Journal & Sourcebook
  • Urban Harvest Organic Seeds
  • Valleyview Gardens
  • Vandermeer Nursery
  • Vineland Nurseries (Dwarf Trees & Shrubs)
  • We're in the Hayfield Now Daylilies
  • Wildflower Farm
  • William Dam Seeds

I Did It! NaBloPoMo 2009 (And, unofficially, in 2011)

I Did It! NaBloPoMo 2009 (And, unofficially, in 2011)
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