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2008 Highlights
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Home Depot Outdoor Living Central at Canada Blooms
Whether you have a green thumb or you're all thumbs The Home Depot can help you create an outdoor oasis. From perennials to annuals, trees and shrubs and bulbs to bushes we can help you
get the look you want to create an extension of your home. Making the most of the seasons is what outdoor living is all about. From BBQs to lawnmowers, paving stones to retaining walls, snow throwers to gardening tools, it can be found at The Home Depot. |
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Win a Trip to Discover the Gardens of Ireland and Communities in Bloom presented by Tourism Ireland
While at Canada Blooms 2008 visit all the Feature Gardens and cast your vote for the "People's Garden Award" presented by The National Post, Global Television and Newstalk 1010 CFRB, and you could be jetting off to discover the gardens of Ireland courtesy of Tourism Ireland and Air Canada! This trip for two includes two roundtrip air tickets from Toronto to Ireland provided by Air Canada, seven nights accommodation with daily Irish breakfast and eight day midsize manual car rental (excluding insurance). Grand prize winner to be announced Monday. March 17th on the Bill Carroll Morning Show (St. Patrick's Day!)
A friendly competition to beautify public spaces, Communities in Bloom strives to improve the tidiness, appearance and visual appearance of Canada's neighbourhoods, parks and streets with a focus on environmental awareness and preservation of heritage and culture. Five communities from Ontario will showcase their prize-winning gardens along with one international winner from Ireland.
Community Days: Wednesday, March 12th - Town of Gravenhurst, Thursday, March 13th - City of Dryden, Friday, March 14th - Town of Carleton Place, Saturday, March 15th - City of Pickering, Sunday, March 16th - Petrolia.
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Opening
Night Celebration
Sobeys presents 'Love in the Garden", our opening night celebration. Preview the spectacular gardens in all their glory, sample exclusive wines and exotic fare - and dance the night away! Love in the Garden is an experience like no other and a ‘must’ for the true Canada Blooms lover. Click here for more information.
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Miracle-Gro Do Up the Doorstep Presented by EZ Rock
Back by popular demand but with a celebrity twist, the Miracle-Gro Do Up the Doorstep Challenge will showcase12 exciting ideas for container gardens to dress up the front door of any home. Whether you are decorating the threshold of a cottage, farmhouse, condo, country or urban home, entries by renowned designer Brian Gluckstein, Joe Mimran of Joe Fresh fame, Marjorie Harris of Gardening Life magazine or national ballet star and passionate gardening enthusiast Rex Harrington, among others, are sure to inspire. All Doorsteps will be judged by show visitors in a People's Choice format, with a charitable donation going to the winner's favourite cause. Be sure to cast your vote and visit The Home Depot Stage at Canada Blooms, March 12 - 16, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for expert demonstrations on how to do up your own doorstep. |
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Scotts Wild Bird Habitat Exhibit
In the hands of students from the Landscape Design Certificate
program at Ryerson University's Chang School of Continuing
Education, snowboards, computer keyboards and other recycled,
found and organic materials will be transformed into whimsical
and functional bird habitats for Scotts' Bird Habitat
exhibit. In collaboration with Ryerson Architectural Science
students and the Yonge Street Mission youth, students
will put on this spectacular display, which will find
a permanent home after the show at the Scotts Wild Bird
Trail in Mississauga's Riverwood Nature Park. |
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Visit After 5:00 and save $8.00 & Colin McAllister & Justin Ryan
NEW for 2008! Save $8.00 when you come to Canada Blooms any evening after 5 p.m. courtesy of RBC.
Colin and Justin will be appearing at the Canada Blooms Opening Night Party Courtesy of RBC. Don't miss this fabulous evening. For more information, click here.
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Pulse: The Heart and Stroke Foundation Garden
Wander through a maze of healing herbs and edible plants such as amaryllis, sage, strawberries, lavender, raspberries and Echinacea representing the four chambers of the heart. Have your blood pressure monitored in a watery oasis of calm surrounded by evergreens and a wall of 1,000 lilies. |
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Wine Tasting
A comfortable sofa, a glass of wine, a grand piano, mellow
music, a grassy floor and flowers galore. Welcome to the
Niagara Wine Garden, where you can recline, relax, and
meet with your friends while tasting some of the best
wines made in the Niagara region.
At the long, sleek white bar you will be able to delight
your taste buds with some of Canada’s best known
wines such as Inniskillin, Jackson-Triggs, Naked Grape
and Sawmill Creek. Cheers! |
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Floral Superstars and Celebrity Flower Arranging Competition
Don't miss the floral superstars or the celebrity flower arranging competition on the Unilock Celebrity Stage. Check out our education schedules for details! |
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VIA Rail Garden Route
There's no better way to travel than by taking a comfortable train ride to your destination. This summer, hop on a train to explore our magnificent country and, en route, stop off to see some of the most spectacular gardens in Canada.
Garden enthusiasts can visit any of the 15 public or private gardens, and the 28, 2007 5-Bloom award-winning Communities in Bloom on the VIA Rail Garden Route, stretching from Victoria to Halifax.
Visit www.viarail.ca/garden for more information on VIA Rail Garden Route.
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Pick Ontario & Floral Superstars
Did you know that some of the best cut and potted flowers and plants that you buy at your local florist are grown right here in Ontario? The flowers are fresher and last longer. Facts about Ontario-grown
cut flowers and potted plants.
This year's Blooms Avenue will be saturated with a
kaleidoscope of psychedelic colours and scent in honour
of Flower Power. The Floral Superstars, a talented,
outspoken and somewhat rowdy group of the most highly
acclaimed florists in Ontario will be using the Pick
Ontario product for their two sessions on the Unilock
Celebrity stage. These are very well attended and entertaining
demonstrations where people cheer for their favourite
designer, bouquets are given away, flowers are cast
into the audience, and the unexpected is always looming
in the background.
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The 360 Restaurant at the CN Tower Cooking Stage
Things are cooking at the CN Tower Culinary Stage where
Executive Chef Peter George of 360 Restaurant will be
dishing up garden-fresh menus, daily at 11:30 a.m. Featured
chefs during our afternoon hours include Anna Olson of
Food Network Canada’s Sugar and Gurth Pretty, author
of The Definitive Canadian Wine and Cheese Cookbook,
as well as a host of top chefs from some of Ontario’s
most distinctive restaurants, including Jamie Kennedy
Wine Bar, Azure, and The Vintage Inns of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
See the daily stage schedules
for the full line-up of extraordinary chefs. |
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Recycling Power
Walk into the giant recycling box and enter a Pop Art world of collages,
sculptures and cartoon posters inspired by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella and Alexander Calder. The Recycling Power garden is where you'll find discarded cell phones and batteries transformed into art that will inspire you to recycle. Sponsored by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC)
and designed by Shawn Gallaugher, the garden guides you through the easy steps of recycling. It also doubles as a collection depot, so bring along your used rechargeable batteries and cell phones and help create a more sustainable environment! |
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The Green Playground by the Ontario Toyota Dealers
The Green Playground by the Ontario Toyota Dealers will engage kids in the wonders of nature as they experience this innovative garden playspace designed just for children by Gardens for Living. Their imagination will guide them as they weave their way through the willow forest and under the sky-high treehouse. Children will be encouraged to express themselves by experimenting with outdoor instruments and talking tubes, adding their mark to a group wall mural, creating free-formed sand sculptures, and planting living things in the gardens. Kids will also learn how to decorate garden pots, plant seeds and care for plants at home and follow the worms as they make soil. Stroller parking available. Parent supervision required. Staffed by the Toronto Botanical Garden daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Skyscapes by Laguna Ponds - 800 Level
Be charmed by the innovative ideas of young, emerging designers in charge of the small urban balconies. Whether retro, traditional or radical, there are ideas for everyone to take home and adapt to your own outdoor living space.
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Garden Travel Area featuring The European Travel Commission (ETC)
European countries will be exhibiting in Canada Blooms for the first time to share their knowledge of the beauty of their garden experiences with Canada Blooms visitors. The European Travel Commission (ETC) is an association of 38 European countries. Each of the member countries offers a large range of attractions, varying cultures, cuisine and music; and they all have wonderful gardens! For full details on the ETC visit their website at www.visiteurope.com.
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"Beautifully Parched" Water Efficient Garden
Proving that a water efficient garden can be as beautiful as any traditional garden while being healthy, environmentally friendly, economical and easy to maintain, the water divisions of Halton Region, Region of Peel, City of Toronto and York Region, together with the Toronto Botanical Garden and the City of Toronto's Clean and Beautiful City program, have created a water efficient garden to be displayed at Canada Blooms. View beautiful drought-tolerant plants in 4 unique settings, get landscaping and plant selection tips and access municipal programs to help you create your own beautiful, environmentally friendly and economical garden.
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"A Spirit Walk" presented by the City of Pickering
Saturday March 15, 2008 - 7:00pm at the Unilock Celebrity Stage - This award-winning play presented by the Backwoods Players, tells the story of Pickering's early settlers and their involvement in the ill-fated Rebellion of 1837. Backwoods and "A Spirit Walk" have been the proud recipients of the 2001 City of Pickering Civic Award for Culture and the Arts, and the Durham Arts Council "Acorn" Award.
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