Upcoming Events

To post your notice, please email us: contact@torontobalconiesbloom.ca

 

Toronto Botanical Garden offers year-round programs for adults. Click here for a selection that might be of interest to balcony gardeners. To register, call George Brown College at 416-415-5000 x2092, or register online at www.coned.georgebrown.ca/index.html


Meetings are held on the third Thursday of every month at the Stan Wadlow Clubhouse. Visitors are welcome (free admission). Starting time is 7:30 p.m.

Stan Wadlow Clubhouse, 373 Cedarvale Avenue (first road east of Woodbine Ave). The clubhouse is a couple of hundred metres north of Cosburn Avenue, on the east side and just past the arena. Parking is available across the street. Any one of three bus routes will take you to within a short walk of the meetings (for TTC schedules - www.ttc.ca).

For information: Veronica 416-750-9758 or Susan 416-467-4945
www.eygc.ca

August 22 (Saturday - 2 to 4 p.m.)
Annual Flower Show and Tea
Come and see the various types of annuals, perennials and shrubs and vines that grow locally in East York. There is also a competition of flower arrangements.
Free admission to the Garden Show

September 17
“Ornamental Grasses - annual and perennial varieties”
Speaker: Donna Robbins, Humber Nurseries

October 15
“Environmental Gardening”
Speaker: Patricia Landry, City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry & Recreation
Seed Exchange - Members/visitors bring packets of seeds that they have collected and identified (as to colour, variety, height, etc.) for exchange after the presentation. No charge for the seed exchange.

 


Join Toronto's gardening community on Feb. 21 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Artscape Wychwood Barns (St. Clair West & Christie St.). Here you will find a great selection of heirloom vegetable and flower seeds, and information about green initiatives in Toronto.

 

If you are a seed saver, please consider making a donation to the Seedy Sunday seed exchange. Drop off or mail your seeds (open pollinated, not hybrids), flower and vegetable varieties, clearly labelled (with year saved and, preferably, with growing instructions) by Jan. 29 to:

Seedy Saturday Seed Exchange
c/o The Stop Community Food Centre
601 Christie Street, Barn 4
Toronto M6G 4C7

Your name and donation will be recorded, and you will be issued a coupon (or more, depending on the size of your donation) to use at the community seed exchange.


Seeds in bulk, or already packed in individual envelopes will be accepted.
For details on this and other Seedy Sunday activities check the Toronto Community Garden Network website's events page www.tcgn.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=EventsWorkshopAndCourses. FrontPage. Information on seed packing sessions will be posted there. While visiting the site, subscribe to the TCGN e-newsletter to get all the most up-to-date info.