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Leaside Garden Society

pruning
THINGS TO DO 

March 9: Be proud of your pruning

March 2, 2023March 6, 2023 Streeter staff 0 Comment gardening, Leaside Garden Society

The Leaside Garden Society is continuing its speaker series with a Zoom meeting on March 9, starting at 7 p.m.

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Clubs & Groups THINGS TO DO 

Learn about garden tools at Leaside Garden Society: April 8

March 25, 2021April 26, 2021 Streeter staff Leaside Garden Society, Paul Gellatly

The Leaside Garden Society meets via Zoom next on April 8 at 7 p.m. with a presentation about gardening tools.

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Clubs & Groups THINGS TO DO 

Feb. 11: Attend Leaside Garden Society meeting

January 28, 2021March 18, 2021 Streeter staff Leaside Garden Society, Paul Gellatly

The Leaside Garden Society meets via Zoom next on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. The topic is the gardens of the Toronto Zoo.

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Big Bird creators
*FEATURED NEWS 

Leaside’s Big Bird takes first place despite show being shut down

March 24, 2020April 21, 2020 Rodger Burnside Canada Blooms, Deborah Browne, Leaside Garden Society, Rick Hutchings

The Leaside Garden Society had just started setting it up its Big Bird entry at Canada Blooms, when a show representative gave them the bad news.

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Butterfly Canoe at Leaside Library
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Butterfly Canoe aims to help save bees and butterflies

March 18, 2020March 22, 2020 Rodger Burnside bees, butterflies, Butterfly Canoe, David Suzuki, Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

That canoe emerging from the snow by the Leaside Library is the Butterfly Canoe, created as part of the David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterflyway project.

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Presentations & Workshops THINGS TO DO 

March 12: Hooray for hostas at garden society meet

February 27, 2020February 25, 2020 Streeter staff gardening, Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

The next Leaside Garden Society meeting is to be held on Feb. 13 when naturalist Miles Hearn will be presenting on “Common Weeds in Toronto.”

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Presentations & Workshops THINGS TO DO 

Feb. 13: Weeds of Toronto featured at garden society meet

January 30, 2020January 19, 2020 Streeter staff gardening, Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

The next Leaside Garden Society meeting is to be held on Feb. 13 when naturalist Miles Hearn will be presenting on “Common Weeds in Toronto.”

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Clubs & Groups THINGS TO DO 

Sept. 12: Trees of Mount Pleasant cemetery at garden society meet

August 29, 2019August 1, 2019 Streeter staff Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, trees

The next Leaside Garden Society meeting is to be held on Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr.

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THINGS TO DO Tours 

June 22: Leaside garden tour plus flower show

June 8, 2019July 15, 2019 Streeter staff garden tour, Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

The Leaside Garden Society presents a self-guided garden tour. You can meet the gardeners, exchange horticultural notes or simply smell the flowers.

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Presentations & Workshops THINGS TO DO 

June 13: Plants to grow instead of invasive species

May 30, 2019May 29, 2019 Streeter staff invasive species, Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

The Ontario Invasive Plant Council will speak on “Grow Me Instead” at the next Leaside Garden Society meeting on June 13 at the Leaside Library.

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Presentations & Workshops THINGS TO DO 

April 11: Ground covers and mulches at garden society meet

March 28, 2019March 20, 2019 Streeter staff Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

The next Leaside Garden Society meeting is to be held on April 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr. with speaker Sean James.

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Presentations & Workshops THINGS TO DO 

March 14: Perennials presented at garden club

February 28, 2019March 4, 2019 Streeter staff Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive, perennials

The Leaside Garden Society is holding its March 14 meeting at the Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr., at 7:30 p.m.

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Leaside Garden Society's scholarship
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Garden society launches scholarship for horticultural studies

February 6, 2019February 15, 2019 Brian Baker Carolynn Beange, Connie Uetrecht, Edna Beange, Leaside Garden Society, Scholarship

The death of former East York alderman Edna Beangehas spurred the Leaside Garden Society to launch a scholarship initiative.

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Edna Beange obituary photo
NEWS 

Leaside community activist eulogized in Parliament

February 5, 2019February 15, 2019 Rodger Burnside Agnes Macphail Award, Edna Beange, Leaside Garden Society, Rob Oliphant

Leaside and East York lost one of their most prominent citizens with the death of Edna Beange, 98, on Jan 7.

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Community Events THINGS TO DO 

Oct. 11: All about ferns at garden society meeting

September 27, 2018December 26, 2018 Streeter staff Leaside Garden Society, Leaside Library, McRae Drive

Kathy Kavassalis will tell the Leaside Garden Society meeting about “Fabulous Ferns” on Oct. 11 at the Leaside Library, 165 McRae Dr.

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Empringham Hotel 1903
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Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

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