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WE EDUCATE

The Toronto Botanical Garden was a Garden Club of Toronto initiative. By late 1950's, the City of Toronto still had no official Garden Centre. The Garden Club of Toronto lobbied Metro Parks which created the city’s first Civic Garden Centre at Leslie and Lawrence. Fast forward to 1965. With a new name and a new home designed by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama, the Toronto Botanical Garden was officially opened on the Civic Garden’s site.

Our five post-secondary scholarships are awarded to students who attain the highest standing in horticultural, landscape design, and landscape architecture programs at four educational institutions in southern Ontario. 

The Club’s primary school scholarships make it possible for a dozen disadvantaged children to attend day camps at the Toronto Botanical Garden. 

WE CREATE

The annual Canada Blooms event was the brainchild of the Garden Club of Toronto. It launched the city’s first Flower Show in 1954 in the Leaside Memorial Gardens. It featured educational displays, competitive flower arrangements and horticulture classes. Subsequent venues included Casa Loma, the O’Keefe Centre (today’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts), and the CNE’s Automotive Building. In 1997, the GCT joined forces with Landscape Ontario to sponsor the first Canada Blooms Flower Show.  

WE TRANSFORM

From the start, the Garden Club of Toronto has transformed the city’s landscape one project at a time.

Our initiatives include:

ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES
  • Pollinator Garden, Jane-Finch
  • Gardens, Highway of Heroes Living Tribute, North York
  • Wildflower Woods, Humber Arboretum

TEACHING/EDIBLE GARDENS
  • Teaching Garden at Allan Gardens
  • Teaching Garden at Toronto Botanical Garden

LANDSCAPED GARDENS
  • Meadoway Entrance Garden
  • June Callwood Park, City of Toronto
  • Entrance Garden, Toronto Botanical Garden
  • North Court, Roy Thomson Hall
  • The Gardens, Casa Loma
  • The Gardens, Spadina House

COMMUNITY/EDIBLE GARDENS
  • Mosaic Garden, St James Town 
  • Floral/Edible Gardens, Canadian Helen Keller Centre 
  • Rooftop Garden, Rotary
  • Cheshire Homes  


WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT ALL OUR PROJECTS

Contact Us


The Garden Club of Toronto


777 Lawrence Ave. East

Toronto, ON M3C 1P2


416-447-5218


office@thegardencluboftoronto.ca