City of Toronto: Parks and Recreational Facilities
www.toronto.ca/parks/facilities/
Toronto Botanical Gardens
www.torontobotanicalgarden.ca
An exciting new botanical garden at the old Civic Garden Centre and Edwards Gardens
Many local and international garden tours are hosted through this site
Allen Gardens Conservatory
www.torontobotanicalgarden.ca/tours/allangardens.htm
Allan Gardens Conservatory is over 100 years old and has over 16,000 square feet of greenhouse area.
Casa Loma
www.casaloma.org/Gardens/
Canada’s famous castle has less famous but splendid gardens worth visiting
Leslie Street Spit (Tommy Thomson Park)
http://trca.on.ca/enjoy/locations/tommy-thompson-park.dot/
The amazing inhabitation of rubble by living ecologies
This Toronto and Region Conservation site has many good links to surrounding areas
Don Valley Brick Works and Lost River Walks
www.lostrivers.ca/BrickWorksPark.htm
A descriptive map of one of Toronto’s outdoor treasures, the home site (www.lostrivers.ca) has information on many of Toronto’s river systems, some of them in accessible ravines, others bubbling away beneath our feet, others lost (for now)
High Park
http://www.toronto.ca/parks/prd/facilities/complex/77/index.htm
Toronto’s largest park needs a better website!
One with photos expressing it’s beauty and complexity through the seasons!
Toronto Islands
www.toronto.ca/parks/island/index.htm
A car free refuge from the urban heat island and noise machine.
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and Arboretum
www.lostrivers.ca/points/mtpl.html and www.mountpleasantgroupofcemeteries.ca/
Music Garden
www.toronto.ca/parks/featured-parks/music-garden/
Beautiful planting, stonework and metalwork, inspired by Bach and designed by Julie Messervy with Yo Yo Ma
Spiral Garden & Cosmic Bird Feeder
www.hollandbloorview.ca/programsandservices/communityprograms/centreforthearts/spiralgarden.php
Children’s activity and therapeutic garden
Spadina House
www.toronto.com/profile/149654
An historic mansion near Casa Loma, with a carefully restored Victorian garden
Cloud Forest Conservatory
www.lostrivers.ca/points/cloudgrdnpk.htm
A beautiful greenhouse environment in the heart of the city core
Royal Botanical Gardens
www.rbg.ca
An amazing resource, both horticultural and environmental, and so close by.
Reford Gardens
www.jardinsmetis.com/english
An historic garden known internationally for its contemporary garden design festivals
Canadian Peregrine Falcon Foundation
www.peregrine-foundation.ca
Dedicated to assisting the recovery of Canadian raptor species. Includes links to webcams at nests on our high rise urban cliff dwellings.