Spread the ‘Love in the Garden’ at Canada Blooms’ Opening Night Gala
Flower-children, Go-Go dancers and design duo Colin & Justin promise a groovy night surrounded by beautiful gardens, spring blooms
Toronto, ON, March 3, 2008 – Flower Power’ is back and in full-swing at Canada Blooms’ ‘Love in the Garden’ Opening Night Gala presented by Sobeys on March 11, 2008. Design duo Colin & Justin will launch Canada’s largest flower and garden festival joined by flower-children, Go-Go dancers and guests encouraged to wear their best vintage Flower Power outfits. The opening night celebration will also preview all the spectacular gardens that transform the Metro Toronto Convention Centre with the sights, sounds and smells of spring each March.
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Scottish design duo Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan from HGTV’s Colin & Justin’s Home Heist, will launch this spectacular eveningcourtesy of RBC. Canada Blooms’ major sponsors, home and garden media personalities and experts, avid garden lovers, and design and landscape artists will also be on hand. |
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‘Love in the Garden’ is the opening night celebration and launch of the five-day Canada Blooms Festival, Canada’s largest flower and garden festival dedicated to promoting horticulture and showcasing outstanding floral and landscape products and services. Inspired by this year’s ‘Flower Power’ theme, the opening night gala will celebrate a nostalgic return to a time when people wore flowers in their hair. |
Guests will be the first to see The Miracle-Gro: Do Up the Doorstep Challenge – 12 exciting container gardening ideas from local ce-lebrities like renowned designer Brian Gluckstein, Joe Mimran of Joe Fresh, Marjorie Harris of Gardening Life, National Ballet star Rex Harrington, Seamus O Reagan and Beverly Thomson of Canada AM, and Shinan Govani of the National Post
They will also have the chance to preview the breathtaking gardens, sample exclusive wines in the Niagara Wine Garden, and enjoy delicious fare provided by Sobeys.
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March 11, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
Opening Ceremonies begin at 7 p.m. |
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Metro Toronto Convention Centre
South Building, 800 Level
222 Bremner Blvd., Toronto, ON |
About Canada Blooms
Now in its twelfth year, the Canada Blooms Festival was originally founded by Landscape Ontario and The Garden Club of Toronto to bring together the very best of the garden industry and community. Supported by a committed group of partners, sponsors and vol-unteers, the five-day Festival is Canada’s largest flower and garden festival. Canada Blooms is a not-for-profit organization that gives back to the community throughout the year by funding community garden projects around Ontario and providing horticulture expertise, education and resources. Proceeds from the 2008 Canada Blooms Festival will support the new Woodland Walk Entrance Garden at the Toronto Botanical Garden. For more information, visit www.canadablooms.com.
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