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GENERAL INFORMATION
Vol. 19, No. 1
EDITOR: Iris Hossé Phillips
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Registered charity number 0228114-56 TRELLIS is published ten times a year as a members' newsletter by the CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE, 777 Lawrence Avenue East, North York, Ont. M3C 1P2. Tel. No.: (416) 445-1552. Manuscripts submitted on a voluntary basis are gratefully received. No remuneration is possible. Lead time for inclusion of articles and advertising material is six weeks: manuscripts and material must be received by the 15th of the month to insure publication. For example, material received by October 15 will be included in the December issue of Treliis.Opinions expressed within do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre.
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Editorial
I am writing this editorial at the conclusion of the Fourth Great Gardening Conference which was organized by the Centre on the October 18th weekend. The conference was outstanding in both content and organization. Conference members that | spoke to were uniformly impressed with the range of ideas and different territories covered by the speakers. Many expressed the wish for an annual conference of this caliber they are obviously not aware of the hundreds of hours of planning and organization that goes into the creation of such an event. The speakers were stimulating and the talks thought-provoking definitely not the usual parade of garden ideas. Discussion and heated debate will continue for a long time. Two images that will stay with me are Jorn Copijn s slide of a very large old tree being moved to a new location by helicopter and Cornelia Oberlander s slide of her latest project in the NorthwestTerritories where she is recreating a northern bog outside the legislative building.
Spring courses will be published in the February issue of Trellis.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Iris Phillips
ART IN THE LINK
December 10 - 23, 1991
David Ferguson - From Morocco to Rococo
THE EDWARDS GARDEN
EVENING
January 15th, 7:30 p.m.
PARADISE ADMIRED
We are pleased to have Dr. Norman S. Track as our lecturer in January. Dr. Track trained in Biological Sciences (Purdue University) and Biochemistry (University of London) and was active in medical research for 20 years. In 1985, he decided to devote his time to photography and writing on a full-time basis and was appointed Photographic Consultant to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Ontairo. Dr. Track' s photographs are in private collections in Canada, USA, Britain, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Japan.
This presentation will examine our understanding of and our responsibility for our natural surroundings. Mankind learned from natural surroundings and developed agriculture for sustenance and horticulture for curiosity and pleasure.
Today, all living organisms face tremendous environmental pressures. The challenge is therefore to accept our responsibility by devising appropriate environmental programs for the intelligent use of both our limited resources and our natural surroundings. Images of beautiful forests, fields and flowers as well as landscaped gardens and cultivated flowers will illustrate Dr. Track's presentation.
WHY WE MUST SAVE THE OAK RIDGES MORAINE
by Wm. B. Granger
The Greater Toronto Area (G.T.A.) is clearly at a crossroads with respect to future land development and, specifically, open land preservation. The long-range planning reports published by the Provincial Office for the Greater Toronto Area in August 1990 suggest that three continued types of urbanization could take place over the next forty years unbridled sprawl, intensification of existing urban and hamlet nodes throughout Metro, York, Durham, Peel and Halton Regions, and extremely intensified development of Metro municipalities with virtually no new development in the four regions. Each of these options has drawbacks in terms of greenspace preservation; in any case we are told by the Office for the G.T.A. that our population will grow from a present three million residents up to about five million over the next forty years. Whatever planning model is ultimately chosen by Queen's Park, we will see increasing pressure to build roads in our remaining valleys, put waste disposal sites in gulleys and previous gravel pits, and watch as thousands of hectares of forest and farmland are turned into building sites and parking lots.
It is important to remember that the first great wave of what we call civilization arrived at the north shore of Lake Ontario to establish Fort York a little over two hundred years ago. Our ancestors busied themselves cutting roads through the bush, first befriending and then chasing off the Iroquois who had farmed, hunted and fished for at least 8,000 years previous to the white settlement, and clearing the land to grow crops. In my own short lifetime my family has left our farm, and almost everyone | grew up with has gone from a rural agricultural background to an urban salaried existence. Whereas in 1950 there were several thousand operating family farms in North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough, today there are none. To find farmland
now you must drive at least 45 minutes north from the sprawl development fronting on Lake Ontario that has become the Hamilton-Toronto-Oshawa conurbation. | flew home from a conservation meeting in Germany this October, leaving Frankfurt airport at 1:30 in the afternoon, and, because of the time zone shift, arrived over the G.T.A. a little before 5:00 p.m. The contrast from the air between the two similar metropolitan cities was striking; where Frankfurt is densely high-rise urban in the centre, the built-up areas soon give way to large tracts of forested land and farmland, dotted with red-roofed villages throughout the countryside. In our meetings with German planners in the Ruhrgebeit regional planning district, we learned that the Germans are intent on preserving existing greenspace as forest or farmland, and that intensification of development, including high-rise, is only permitted within existing urban centres or villages.
By contrast, our plane flew along the south shore of Lake Simcoe and then headed down to Pearson Airport, crossing Uxbridge, Markham, North York and Etobicoke along the way. All of these municipalities blend together into essentially one, with only the very major river valleys of the Rouge, Don and Humber Rivers left intact as green corridors. Dense, high-rise development does exist, centred most often on the former town cores across the Greater Toronto Area, but vast areas of sprawl suburban and ex-urban housing, light industrial and commercial/storage uses have eaten up tens of thousands of hectares of former forest and farmland.
The other striking blots on our rural landscape, just north of Metro Toronto, are open pit quarries and gravel pits. The immense amounts of granular materials needed to create bases for huge parking lots, roadways and superhighways and to
add bulk to our vast concrete buildings have all come out of the ground. Along with the extraction of the rich mineral base left by glaciers as tillplain 11,000 years ago, we have systematically destroyed huge recharge areas for all major and minor streams and rivers. If rainwater is not allowed to collect on the forest floor or farm field, and then percolate slowly through sand and gravel beds to the aquifers below, the Rouge, Don and Humber rivers may dry up during periods of drought, causing stagnating ponds and dangerous health risks along the rivers. Likewise, if the natural percolation areas are roofed over or paved, with stormwater forced into the rivers all at once, incredible flooding will occur in mid-stream and downstream municipalities. Literally, the situation will become one of flood or famine.
We are also critically dependent on the fresh oxygen and cooler summer air temperatures produced by forested areas north, west and east of Metropolitan Toronto. Trees capture particulate pollutants and carbon dioxide expelled by human activity, and return cool fresh oxygen to the atmosphere. The forested areas around our cities literally act as our green lungs, and are indispensable.
Finally, the Oak Ridges Moraine acts as the northern linkage across the top of the Greater Toronto Area for outdoor recreation; hiking, cross-country skiing, and looping trails that already exist from Lake Ontario up the major river valleys. As intensification of development occurs within existing urban areas ,the need for escape becomes more crucial.
The importance of wild landscape areas in and near urban municipalities has become increasingly clear to planners, parks and recreation staff, naturalist groups and especially to many urban residents. This new awareness has partly been due to increasingly closed-option lifestyles urban dwellers have given up weekend commuting to a distant rural cottage or property for economic or convenience reasons, or where the possibitity of escape
from the cities just does not exist. Coupled with the high costs of leaving the cities, the cities themselves have expanded into former rural hinterland. Today we refer to the Greater Toronto Area as a logical geograpic area in planning, transportation, conservation and recreation terms. The farm-and-forest landscapes that survived in the Regions of York, Durham, Peel and Halton right up to the last decade are now largely urban areas. Escape to nearby open countryside is now not possible. The remnant rural landscapes along the stretch of the Oak Ridges Moraine comprise our last opportunity to preserve accessible linear greenspace, with obvious trail connections to our open river valleys and Lake Ontario/Lake Simcoe.
As well, several surveys of recreation needs and desires at the Federal, Provincial and Metropolitan Toronto levels have defined that the passive recreation requirements of many urban residents are not being fully met through present parkland.
Federal
In 1981, the Canadian Fitness Survey released by Mme. Celine Hervieux-Payette, Federal Minister of Sport, at that time listed the five most common activities Canadian youth enjoy as walking, jogging/running, home exercises, bicycling and ice hockey. The survey focused on 10-to 19-year olds and involved the interviewing of 22,000 Canadians.
Provincial
Drawing from a report published in 1980 by the former Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation, the five most popular yearround activities in the Province are: walking, general exercise, jogging/running, swimming and bicycling. The study pointed out that availabilty and accessibility of facilities are the most important elements to begin or continue participation in recreations
Metro Toronto
Using Metro Toronto s Tourism and Outdoor Recreation Planning Study (T.O.R.P.S., 1973) figures, 60% of the individuals surveyed simply enjoyed
recreational walking. This indicates that over three million residents of the G.T.A. could be potential recreational walkers, and will rely on continuous open space as recreation land in future decades.
The Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has drafted a proposed trail system for the G.T.A. Walking, jogging, bicycling and picnicking are certainly possible in highly urban areas, but preserved natural environments across the Oak Ridges Moraine could serve these future needs better. As well, the trails could link urban residents to the Moraine through the existing river valleys, largely in public ownership.
Urbanites have started to look inward to find natural areas that exist or can be created in cities. Some recent, very well publicized examples of citizen action promoting retention or vegetative restoration of urban greenspaces include Tommy Thompson Park (Leslie Street Spit) and the Rouge Valley System (Greater Toronto), Cootes Paradise rehabilitation (Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton), and Stanley Park and the addition of the former University of British Columbia Endowment lands as Pacific Spirit Park (Vancouver). This citizen action is a major force that can, and will, result in strong support for moraine greenspace protection.
National organizations may be able to help, as well. The Nature Conservancy of Canada recently added a small but significant site to their landholdings across Canada. This is a site at Andover, New Brunswick, measuring only seven acres in size, but home to over 66% of the entire native population of Furbish 's Lousewort. The Carolinian Canada project, sponsored by World Wildlife Fund of Canada, has also enjoyed remarkable success over the past five years in identifying and protecting, mostly through private stewardship, the few remaining native Carolinian sites in Southem Ontario.
Behind my property, on a steep-sided ravine in midtown Toronto, is a wonderful Caralinian plant community nurtured jointly by private land-owners and the City of
Toronto. Shagback and Bitternut Hickory, Red and White Oak, Black Walnut and Black Maple all thrive and regenerate in this precious site.
In North York we started re-planting mature woody seedings into remnant woodlots, onto steep hillsides and into wet sites in 1982. The typical planting program involves identification of a suitable site by parks maintenance staff, who know best where the problem areas lie, followed by identification and contact with local resident groups or school groups interested in taking part in an Arbor Day planting to reforest a small part of their community. Our first plantings at Driftwood Community Centre were completed by school kids and parents from 18 local schools and the woody growth is now mature enough to support regeneration of the indigenous Oak, Ash, Beech, Sugar Maple and even Blue-Beech. More spectacular though, is the herbacious material that has regenerated on the forest floor a veritable carpet of Spring Beauty, punctuated with clumps of Bloodroot this past spring. But these urban re-vegetation efforts are only partial band-aid solutions to natural stormwater recharge and habitat protection.
The Oak Ridges Moraine exists largely in a natural or farm-field state. It is very much like the hinterland outside of Frankfurt. Perhaps we could connect the Moraine as a planning area to the Niagara Escarpment Commission, (the moraine liniks with the Niagara Escarpment at Caledon), with broad legislative authority to ensure compatible development occurs on these lands, if at all. The Ontario Government declared a Provincial Interest in the Moraine in July, 1990, and this provides a small measure of interim protection. The Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority also adopted Interim Environmental Planning Guidelines for the Oak Ridges Moraine in March, 1990, and these could provide a comprehensive basis for the future land use decisions by local and regional Councils, if broadly applied.
ff our shared vision of a future G.T.A. includes fresh water streams and rivers,
spontaneous recreation activities for all residents, and clear cool fresh air to breathe, we must take steps now to preserve the Oak Ridges Moraine lands.
Wiliam B. Granger is Director of Urban
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The Civic Garden Centre would like to thank the 300 volunteers who have contributed to the success of the Civic Garden Centre during 1991. Perhaps you gave half-a-day a week, served on a committee, were part of a group who made crafts or dried flowers, or have helped with plant sales and special events. Whatever your contribution has been, the Centre appreciates the time you have given. Mistletoe Magic, plant sales, garden tours and special programs have offered a great variety of jobs for the volunteer. Regular staffing at the Centre, in the shop, library, reception, administration and hort area depends heavily on volunteer support. An excess of 20,000 hours of volunteer time given in 1991 has enabled the Centre to enjoy increased growth. Please join us on Wednesday, December 4th from 4 to 7 p.m. for the volunteer recognition party in the administration foyer. Your invitations will be in the mail but, with yet another postal strike threatening, we want to make sure that all of you reserve this date. We know the Centre will provide many more exciting volunteer opportunities in 1992!
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Coming Events at the Centre
December, 1991
1 Toronto Potters Show/Sale
Southern Ontario Orchid Society Meeting
6 Civic Garden Centre - CHRISTMAS PLANT SALE Pre-order Member
Pick-up Canadian Chrysanthemum & Dahlia Society Christmas Party
7,8 Civic Garden Centre - CHRISTMAS PLANT SALE
8 Ontario Rock Garden Society - Meeting
Judy Glattstein Made for Shade, Japanese woodland plants
9 Southern Ontario Orchid Society, Newcomers Meeting
Toronto Bonsai Society - Meeting
10 THE EDWARDS GARDEN EVENING - Speaker, JUDY GLATTSTEIN
Garden Design with Foliage.
11 Ikebana International 208 - Meeting
15 Toronto Gesneriad Society - Meeting
January, 1992
5 Southern Ontario Orchid Society - Meeting
12 Toronto Gesneriad Society - Meeting
Ontario Rock Garden Society - Meeting
Speaker, Marion Jarvie Some Argentinian Alpines
13 Southern Ontario Orchid Society, Newcomers Meeting
15 EDWARDS GARDEN EVENING - Speaker, Dr. Norman S. Track Paradise Admired
19 York Rose & Garden Society - Meeting
21 Toronto Cactus & Succulent Club - Meeting
23 Canadian Chrysanthemum & Dahlia Society - Meeting
26 Rhododendron Society of Canada - Meeting
2:00 - 4:00 pm
1992- A VERY SPECIAL YEAR FOR
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PANORAMAS OF ENGLISH GARDENS
by David Wheeler and Nick Meers. Toronto: Little Brown, 1991, $36.95
Gardening books that describe new horticultural techniques frequently come along. But in Panoramas of English Gardens, which is about the English garden that has been often enough described, it is the illustrative technique that is novel. And startlingly successfull
Nick Meers, a 1978 graduate of the Guildford School of Photography, is responsible for the photographs in this gorgeous volume. He used a recently-developed camera that approximates the human field of sight. It produces images that not only have an unrivaled clarity of detail and breadth of view, but can reasonably be said to have created another form of published vision.
This extraordinary new panoramic camera makes perfect wide-angle photgraphs without any distortions of lateral verticals or colour. The greens are the lush dark English greens. The trunks of trees and the pillars of houses are parallel to the side of the page. The magnificent pictures are allowed to do the talking. This they do extremely well!
The technique works as well for the intimate corners of these fine, old gardens as for the grand vistas. Its exclusive quality is shown at its best in the double-page enlargements in this extended landscape-format book. David Wheeler 's competent and graphic commentary completes this superior volume.
One learns that, remarkably, the English garden is, in fact, an amalgam of plants from at least one hundred countries. The mulberry, for instance, came from China in Shakespeare s lifetime. Of course, an enormous range of temperate-zone plants will adapt to the generally benign English climate.
But, as Wheeler points out, what matters is the way that garden designers put together this botanical zoo for exotic plants from around the temperate world . These designers visited French and Italian gardens. And leading garden-makers from those countries had at least a hand in English garden design.
Twenty gardens are covered, all in England. They were taken from a list of 2,400: one criterion being that the gardens had to be open to the public. (Since the book s publication early in 1991 two of the gardens, The Grove and Lime Kiln, are not currently open to the public.)
Most are outside the Home Counties, so we are spared such already widely covered gardens as Kew and Hampton Court. Many have a context wider than the horticulture. Did Henry VIlI's last queen decide to marry him while walking in her garden at Sudely? After his death, did she decide to remarry here?
The selected gardens are the personal choice of Meers and Wheeler. They pay homage to the spirit and composition of what we think of as the English garden. At the same time, they contrive to bring us a diversity of choice so that we do not have a succession of similar typical English gardens.
This new book is unreservedly recommended, and an ideal choice either for a gift or one s own pleasure.
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH THE MASTER GARDENERS
Q. My Cymbidium hasn' t flowered for three to four years. Why doesn't it produce bloom?
A. Cymbidium need cold temperatures for two or three weeks in order to set blossom, about 7C10C (45F - 50F). Try fertilising your plant with a flowering type of fertiliser i.e., one with a high number in the middle. Use it at half strength through the winter. Give the plant bright direct light during the winter, cool temperatures at night, and warmer during the day. Make sure there is enough humidity. Cymbidium usually flower from February to May, although some may start earlier . They do not like to be crowded and may take a while to flower after being divided.
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] heeving Q. have several pots of bulbs in the garage that | am trying to force. | see the roots have pushed up above the soil. What should | do now? The soil is very dry.
A. Water the pots thoroughly once, and add more soil. When the pots have drained well, put a heavy cardboard box over them. This will act as an insulator and prevent heaving. Check from time to time, and avoid drying out the soil completely.
Q. How should | care for my Hoya in winter?
A. Hoya will perform best at a fairly cool temperature, 10C - 13C (50F - 55F). Keep it in a bright light; about four hours of direct sunlight is good, but be careful not to heat the plant up. Water sparingly during the winter months. (You can water freely from spring to autumn.) When the plant is growing vigorously, feed it with a fertiliser that has a high middle number to encourage flowering.
Audrey Meiklejohn Rose
Ann Marie Van Nest s article on the Audrey Meiklejohn rose was included in the November issue of Trellis. The rose is a yellow hybrid tea with fragrant double blooms.
TOUR GUIDE UPDATE
Do you know that in 1991 the Civic Garden Centre Volunteer Tour Guides led 72 Walks In The Park and 59 booked tours through Edwards Gardens? Forty-two Public School classes participating in the Nature Recycles and Bugs, Flowers & Things In The Dirt hikes.
We are actively planning for the 1992 season and need additional volunteers. If you are interested in joining these popular and exciting programmes, contact the Tour Guide Co-ordinator, Helen Craig, 445-1552.
In the library
by Pamela McKenzie Librarian
We invite you to make a donation to the library, taking the form of a purchase of one of our recent accessions. These will be on display in the library during December and January. We can take donations by telephone or in the library. We accept Visa and MasterCard; tax receipts are issued.
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APRIL 27 - MAY 12, 1992
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Bourne, H. Flores Poetici: the Florist's Manual. (1988 reproduction of original 1833 edition)
Campbell, Stu. The Mulch Book; Rev ed. 1991.
Stobbs, William. In the Garden. (For children.) 1991.
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Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Medieval Gardens. 1986.
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For 1991: Dr. Brian Bixley, Mrs. Georgina Cannon, Mrs. Martha Finkelstein, Mr. Bill Granger, Mrs. Bayla Gross, Mr. Kenneth Laundy, Mrs. Ruth MacKneson.
For 1991-1992: Mrs. Mary Anne Brinckman, Mrs. Luba Hussel, Mrs. Susan Macaulay, Mrs. Robin Wilson.
For 1991, 1992 and 1993: Mrs. Cicely Bell, Mrs. Wendy Lawson, Mr. Peter Lewis, Mrs. Mary Mills, Ms. Laura Rapp. Representative of Metropolitan Toronto Parks and Property, Mr. Victor Portelli.
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