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An exclusive peek at Canada Blooms the Toronto Flower & Garden Festival
March 12 – 16, 2008

Best Show Gardens
This year’s feature gardens proved to be showstoppers for the panel of judges who gave out a whopping 27 awards! Top winners include Let Earth “Rein” by Park*** Nurseries, which garnered the Gordon A. MacEachern Award for Outstanding Large Size Garden; A Splendid Retreat by Elite Environments which scooped the S.G. Ulbright Award for Outstanding Medium Size Garden; and Sander Design’s Tiptoe Through the Tulips which received the Sheridan Nurseries Award for Outstanding Small Size Garden. By popular acclaim the garden with the highest vibes was Circle of Life: The Urban Hub, designed by Forestell Designed Landscapes & Brydges Landscape Architecture, which won the People’s Choice Garden Award, presented by The National Post, Global Television and Newstalk 1010 CFRB.

Click here for a complete list of winners.


Miracle-Gro Do Up the
Doorstep Challenge
Plant World’s Paul Zammit’s front door container design was the popular choice in the Miracle-Gro Do Up the Doorstep Challenge. His winning arrangement featured jewel-toned succulents potted in mirror-bright contemporary containers. A donation in the winner’s name will be made to the Toronto Botanical Garden’s James Boyd Children’s Centre Leadership Camp.
Contest Winners!
Patricia McCaw of Port Hope is the lucky winner of the VIA Rail Garden Route prize. She receives two round-trip tickets aboard VIA Rail to the garden of her choice, selected from the 15 gardens featured on VIA Rail’s Garden Route, plus two nights’ hotel accommodations and two access passes to the garden of her choice. And, Brenda Carter of Coburg, Ontario is the lucky winner of a trip for two to Ireland, courtesy Tourism Ireland and Air Canada. Congratulations to the winners!

The Gift of Spring
Top prize goes to Canada Blooms organizers and participants as well as Proctor Cartage for donating and delivering thousands of flowering bulbs and annuals from this year’s five-day festival to Toronto seniors. The flowers helped brighten the day of residents of Bendale Acres Homes for the Aged as well as clients of the Scarborough Support Services/Bendale Acres Meals-On-Wheels program. But the giving didn’t stop there. More than 70 mature trees and shrubs have been donated and stored in greenhouses in Downsview Park, where they await planting in City of Toronto parks this spring.

Mark your calendar for next year's show, March 18 to 22.


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