Delight in stunning floral creations at the standard judged flower show at Canada Blooms. This is your chance to show off your green thumb! Interested non-professional exhibitors as well as members of Horticultural Societies and Garden Clubs are welcome to enter these classes. 2012 competition rules, classes and awards information is available click here.

Garden Hall Competitiors can register now for 2012 competition.

2012 - City Culture

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2011 - Blooming Art

At the 2011 Canada Blooms flower show, the floral designs were all original works of art!. The Garden Hall was transformed into an art gallery with a maginificent show of both tradtional, modern and contemporary art and sculpture -- exhibiting the work of some of the best Canadian and international floral designers. Visitors could stip into a gallery of cutting edge designs, romantic designs, retropective designs and abstract work and let their head swil with the rhythms, textures, forms, and colours in the gallery.

Framed works of flroal art included retrospedtive interpretations of Art Deco and Art Nouveau style. Flowers in basket and hand-tied bouquets, favourite subjects for painers, were created in glorious colours, to tempt the artist in all of us. Tiny miniature desings inspired by sculptures delighted and amazed. Table designs recreated a luncheon in an impressionist's garden inviting us into an intimate scene from the past. Landscape designs reflected a stylized landscape of the imagination and a landscape evocative of a Group of Seven painting or something in between.

Modern abstract design was featured in a class of stamobiles, a floral art form derived from the work of the modern sculptor Alexander Calder. Large sulptural designs composed for a modern art museum reflected contemporary trends in floral art. Satellite designs from designers across the province enticed creativity and imagination. The ikebana arrangement created a contemplative mood, while the international exhibitors created designs which were futuristic and speculative in conception. The show provoked the audience's feelings and thoughts. Blooming Art -- an exhibition of flroal art at its best.

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	Garden Hall Floral Competition 2011 Pictures courtesy of Trish Symons
	Garden Hall Hort Competition 2011 Pictures courtesy of Rosemary Passafiume-McLean

Congratulations to the 2011 Award Winners

History of the Garden Hall

The Garden Club of Toronto held its first flower show in 1949, and over the years has held shows in the Automotive Building, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (formerly the O'Keefe Centre), Casa Loma, Royal Winter Fair and the Civic Garden Centre. In 1997, marking the Garden Club of Toronto's 50th anniversary and Landscape Ontario's 25th anniversary, the two organizations decided to celebrate with the founding of Canada Blooms, where club members produced a very successful flower show.

Over the following years the Garden Hall evolved into an integral part of Canada Blooms.
Horticulture classes are open to anyone who wishes to enter.
Floral Design classes are open to those who qualify.
International participants are by invitation only.
All entrants in the Garden Hall are amateur designers and horticulturalists.

International Competition

Did you know that the Garden Hall's International Class is the only one of its kind in Canada? Our 2010 competition welcomed representatives from Australia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Guadeloupe, Ireland, South Africa, South Korea, the United States and Canada. The designs were simply spectacular; they alone were worth a trip to Canada Blooms.

We thank all participants and Congratulate all the winners.

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