Toronto Botanical Garden

Specialties

Toronto Botanical Garden offers an array of 17 award-​winning themed gardens spanning nearly four acres, designed to educate and inspire.

You’ll also find a complete range of innovative indoor and outdoor learning experiences for all ages including programs, garden tours, nature day camps, field trips and an extensive horticultural library; LEED Silver Certified Building with an energy-​efficient sloping green roof and award-​winning ecologically conscious design; rental facilities; garden shop and seasonal café.

The ever-​changing seasonal canvas of our gardens and beautiful «green» building provides an exceptional natural setting for any wedding, special event or corporate meeting.

History

Established in 1959.

The Toronto Botanical Garden began and still is a gardening education and information centre. The TBG is both a building and a spirit. The architecturally significant building is located in Toronto’s Edwards Gardens. The spirit is a compilation of hopes and dreams of many people — from those who first settled the property to those who are drawn here today because of their love of gardening. People tell us that they feel good as soon as they enter the building.

Meet the Manager

Harry J.

Manager

Harry Jongerden has been a professional gardener, garden designer and garden director for 35 years. He is currently Executive Director of Toronto Botanical Garden, having held the posts of Garden Director at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver for five years, Head of Horticulture at Royal Botanical Gardens and Head Gardener at the Stratford Festival. He is the author of «This Other Eden» and designer of the Walkerton Heritage Water Garden and Stratford’s Elizabethan Garden. Current plans at TBG have him busy planning a 30-​acre expansion to the current garden.