An exclusive peek at Canada Blooms the Flower & Garden Festival

March 16 – 20, 2011

Something special is happening each and every day of Canada Blooms:
Wednesday, March 16th – Tourism Ireland Day: Enjoy a Preveiw to St. Patrick’s day, show your Irish in the form of a shamrock (real or drawn) and save $2 off your general admission ticket. Visit the Tourism Ireland Booth (Booth #406) and join in the fun – loads of goodies to give away, and prizes throughout the day. At 6:00-8pm enjoy a special evening of uniquely Irish entertainment courtesy of Tourism Ireland.
Thursday, March 17th – Canadian Cancer Society Day: Pledge your commitment to fight back. See how the Society translates their commitment and passion with an inspirational feature garden, reflect and listen to inspiring stories, then visit their market place booth # 1229, where you can pledge to join the fight against cancer and pick up your daffodil pin. Wear your pin throughout April as a show of support to those on a cancer journey. Join the Fight at www.fightback.ca   
Friday, March 18th – CP24 Day:Enjoy a special experience at the CP24 Café and watch interviews all day with Gardening Experts live at Canada Blooms. Discover the Secrets of Spain with a special evening program on the Green For Life Celebrity Stage including guest Mag Ruffman courtesy of CTS-TV, Tourism Spain and Connaissance Travel and Tours 6-8pm.
Saturday, March 19th – Scotts Miracle Gro Day: The first 5,000 guests attending Canada Blooms will receive a special gift from Scotts Miracle-Gro. Join us from 6-8pm and you can see why Connecting Children to Nature is so imporatant with Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds.

City of Toronto

Green Living Show

Sunday, March 20th – City of Toronto Day: Drop by the City of Toronto Garden and discover the tips, tools and resources you neet to get started  — whether you want to reduce your water use, go pesticide free, learn how to plant and care for trees, start a balcony garden — or even a community garden!
When you purchase your ticket receive a $12.00 pass to the Green Living Show on April 15 – 17. The Green Living Show is Canada’s largest consumer show dedicated to all things green. Shop at four hundred Green-Living approved exhibits, taste great food and drink, discover leading environmental organizations, drive hybrid and electric vehicles, play in the Kids Zone and learn from eco-experts, celebrities and know-how workshops.


Niagara Wine Garden
Relax and enjoy the atmosphere at the Niagara
Wine Garden. Surrounding the lounge are the
Balcony Gardens of Canada Blooms. Enjoy a
glass of award-winning Ontario wine, taste fine
cheeses presented by the Dairy Farmers of
Canada in a beautiful, lush, green setting — it’s a
Canada Blooms tradition!
City Farmers: Advertures in Food Growing
Start your morning off right with Lorraine Johnson on our Green For Life Celebrity Stage on Thursday, March 17 at 10:30 am. Then join Mark Cullen and Denis Flanagan at 11:30 to discover What’s New at Blooms!.


Win a chance to visit the world! As you journey through Canada Blooms make sure to visit these partners to enter for a chance to win a trip to a dream garden destination:

Visit the New Classical 96.3 FM – VIA Rail Garden Route Lounge in the Blooms Marketplace
for a chance to win a trip for two to any Garden Destination
along the VIA Rail Garden Route, compliments of Via Rail
Canada and the New Classical 96.3 FM.

Visit the CTS-TV, Tourist Office of Spain or Connaissance Travel Booth[#407,401 or 405), (for a chance to win a trip to visit Spain which includes roundtrip airfare for 2 people, 4 nights accommodation and a tourist guide book of the region courtesy of the Tourist Office of Spain, Air Canada and Connaissance Tour and Travel.

Try out your Irish Luck – Cast your vote for the “People’s Choice” Garden Award at the Tourism Ireland or Toronto Star booth (#406 or 402) and you could win a trip for two to Ireland courtesy of Tourism Ireland, Air Transit and the Toronto Star.

Take a break in the Twinings Tea Garden and you can enter for a chance to win a trip to North Carolina coutesy of Twinings Tea, Air Canada and North Carolina Tourism.

The Professional: Members of Landscape Ontario planned the most ambitious feature garden yet. The entrance garden encompasses over 9000 sq feet. It embraces green technology: green roofs, living walls, and water conservation. Enjoy a stroll through the intricately detailed walkways, plan to spend time in the children’s activity area or be educated by the possibilities that you can apply to your outdoor living space.


Project Chirp and the Pollinator Gardens Project are planting a Feature Garden at Canada Blooms to show how you can use your own plot to help native birds, bees, and butterflies survive and thrive even in the city. The garden will have a large number of native plants in bloom, along with a water feature, bee condos, bird nests and boxes, and information about how to do this at home.

Shrubs and trees are natives combining spring or summer blooms for pollinators with fall berries to sustain migrating birds – so come and see them all and talk to our experts about gardening to help wild species…or catch our speakers Clement Kent, Mark Peck, and Laurence Packer in the Blooms Garden Solutions series. Our booth #422 in the Marketplace will have more informational material and experts to answer your questions.

Defining Moments


So much can be defined in a single moment. Whether your passion is gardening, sports or the environment, there is always a moment where you had to defy the odds, achieve excellence and become the best…A personal moment in time in which everything made sense, everything came together. A speech from a coach that encouraged you to “dig in”, a gardening tip that inspired growth, a turning point in life that “re-charged” the passion for what you care about and helped along the journey to success.
Call2Recycle’s “defining moment” is when each of us shows respect for our environment by recycling rechargeable batteries and cell phones.

Guests are invited to visit the Call2Recycle booth (#722) and hear their passionate stories…as well as share your own defining moment with us. To view last year’s Defining Moment Video click here.

Canada Blooms was founded by the Garden Club of Toronto and Landscape Ontario
 
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