Just plain hemlocks.Īround the corner in the garden flanking the water channel in the Westview Terrace, there were impatiens plants sprinkled throughout the perennials. These urns used to be filled with wonderful annuals and tropicals… In spring, it always hosts a colourful mix of bulbs later swishing grasses and interesting annuals and biennals. What happened to the creativity that should be the hallmark of a botanical garden, even in the current straitened circumstances? The little square near the entrance is prime real estate, intended to be the greeting card for all who come to the TBG. It felt a little like being in a 1950s municipal park. Red and blue salvias in Victorian ribbon planting with canna lilies. However, when I rounded the corner from the entry border to the entrance courtyard itself, I was dismayed. In his work with Chicago’s Lurie Garden ( read my blog on the Lurie here), there was a multi-year ongoing relationship between him and the Lurie’s gardeners that did not happen at the TBG due to financial constraints The complexity of this garden, its self-seeding plants and the ongoing assessment of performance stretches the capacity of a severely underfunded garden (I’ll get to that later, too). Piet Oudolf recommended a full-time gardener as part of the ongoing maintenance of the entry garden. with a few noticeable plant additions that might not have been strictly ‘Oudolfian’, like the brilliant orange daylilies behind the rampaging Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firedance’, below As I wrote in my 2-part, 2017 blog on the design of the border, Piet Oudolf-Meadow Maker–Part 1 and Part 2, the border was funded by the Garden Club of Toronto and constructed in 2006. The Entry Border sported new rails to keep out unruly, selfie-snapping visitors…. and the bees were buzzing in the blazing stars ( Liatris spicata).
The beautiful Piet Oudolf-designed Entry Border was its usual boisterous self, the spiky, white rattlesnake master consorting with the blue Russian sage…. The three gardeners and volunteers have tackled most of the weeds in the main borders. Given the constraints placed on the garden (and I’ll get into those later), it looked pretty good. I visited the Toronto Botanical Garden this week, my third visit this year.
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