Niagara-on-the-Lake Shaw Festival Garden Tour today

It's a perfect day and it's the NOTL Shaw Festival Garden tour.  It's always great…here are a few pictures from last year's trip and some of these weren't on the tour.  Niagara-on-the-Lake is home to many Romantic gardens, so it's always enjoyable being there.

Niagara's Garden Tours Galore

Hi everyone,

It is the start of the garden tour season - well it already started, didn't it?  The Niagara Region has some great events that to add to the tour list.

This week (June 24th 2013) is the Hamilton Open Garden Week organized by the Hamilton Spectator - here's the link:

http://www.thespec.com/living-story/2201037-open-garden-week-your-spectator-guide/

Dundurn Castle (Now Dundurn National Historic Site)  in Hamilton is having an 1812 celebration with quite a few tours and events:

http://www2.hamilton.ca/CultureandRecreation/Arts_Culture_And_Museums/HamiltonCivicMuseums/Events/Dundurn.asp?site=DUNDURN

The Buffalo Garden Walk is part of a garden festival that lasts more than a month.  Here are the 2 links:

Here's the Buffalo Garden Walk:

http://www.gardenwalkbuffalo.com

Here's the National Buffalo Garden Festival - this is what has grown out of the 2 day Garden Walk

http://www.nationalgardenfestival.com

Here's one of my favourite garden elements from the St. Catharines Garden Tour July 7th.  I've done photographs of each garden this week, so have a preview of the highlights.

This is a willow twig sculpture.  The twigs are placed in a pot in a woven pattern. The willow sprouts leaves at the top to form this living sculpture.