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Throughout the year, Vintage Gardener hosts seasonal Garden Festivals in Toronto’s gem, The Distillery Historic District. French-style Flower Carts laden with the season’s best, turn the District’s cobblestone plaza into a Garden Market Haven. During each Festival, guests can roll up their sleeves and try their hand at any of the “on-the-spot” projects, or sign up for a Workshop, held mornings or evenings during the festival. A highlight for each, is the Festival Luncheon or Brunch held at one of the District’s celebrated venues, …Tappo Wine Bar & Restaurant, The Fermenting Cellar, Archeo, or an Art Gallery…… where Vintage Gardener’s own Elaine & Anna Martin are both entertaining and informative. They share lots of tips for bringing a seasonal garden look into your home decorating and entertaining! To enquire about including a similar event for your corporate function as a team-building session, spousal programme or fund-raising function, give us a call 416-363-7433 or email elaine@vintagegardener.com. For larger groups or garden clubs - we've been known to send Elaine on the road ! Reservations: 416-363-7433 or Email
April - May, 2011 It’s opening weekend for our Flower Market Carts!!! And they will be pretty in pink!!! Hydrangea, Tulips, Azalea, Martha Washington Geraniums, Aqualegia and the like – perfect gifts for Mom! Each Day throughout the Festival, we feature workshops and luncheons – a great way to spend a day with Mother !!!
For reservation inquiries call 416-363-7433 or email us
Mothers’ Day BrunchMay 1st, 2011$95 pp or $175 for twoJoin Elaine, our Vintage Gardener & her design team, for our annual Mother’s Day Brunch, on Sunday May 1st, 11:00 am to 2:00 ish in The Distillery Historic District. $95 pp or $175 for two Our Mothers’ Day Floral Festival continues to May 21st with daily workshops at Vintage Gardener, The Distillery Historic District (details here soon!)
For more information visit our
Workshops Page
June, 2011 During the Festival, our market carts are full to the canopy with garden goodies & gadgets along with your favourite (and sometimes hard to find) culinary herb plants.
This
year’s Festival Features: Each Day throughout the festival, Herbal Experts will be on hand to inspire and answer your garden questions and share tips and recipes. As well, Vintage Gardener’s Floral Designers will create custom planters while you wait (or assist). Our special twist combines flowers (many edible) with herbs to create a textured and fragrant mini-garden, reminiscent of an 18th century French Peasant Garden (grandmother to a Formal Potager – which you can learn about at our Festival Brunch.
For more information or to buy tickets, June 8th and 12th, 2011 The Festival Luncheon is a Culinary Herb Celebration! Our Vintage Gardener, Elaine is both entertaining and informative as she offers up tips on the cultivation and growing of a culinary herb garden including container plantings. You’ll also learn how to dry and decorate with herbs. As well Elaine will share some fav recipes and tell stories about the creation of her own French Peasant Garden, a 17th century style kitchen garden, Grandmother to a Formal Potager (a twenty year labour of love). Just before Lunch, you’ll each be planting up your own mini-herb planter to take home - so plan to get your fingers dirty! Tappo, the Distillery Historic District’s award winning restaurant plans to WOW you with some incredible edibles - including a flower or two with their Herbal Luncheon menu! …from The Potting Shed 416-363-7433
$95 per person, includes
brunch
A Lavender Festival August, 2011 What is that saying? .. You can never be too rich, too thin or have enough lavender (or was it diamonds?). Come to our Lavender Festival to find all manner of things lavender! Lavender wreaths, lavender sachets, lavender hedges, lavender topiaries, lavender plants, lavender bouquets, lavender soaps, even lavender pet shampoo...well you get the picture! Throughout the festival week visit Vintage Gardener in the Distillery Historic District for all manner of Lavender samplings! Glean tips on cultivating, planting and drying lavender from our Lavender experts and even learn a few medicinal and culinary secrets (sample some lavender cookies, lavender praline ice-cream, lavender lemonade…) Try your hand at creating a dried lavender hedge, topiary, a sachet, (pay as go) or sign up for a morning or evening workshop! Mark Sunday, August 22nd on your calendar and plan to attend our Lavender Festival Luncheon in The Distillery Historic District. You will see first hand how we create those wonderful French-inspired florals you see throughout our studio. Elaine and Anna will share stories from their own experience creating their 20 year in the making Hockley Valley, French Peasant Garden, where they learned a great deal about growing, drying and cooking with Lavender!!!
For more details or to book, phone
416-363-7433
or
email The Harvest Festival The Distillery Historic District October, 2011
Join in on a morning or evening workshop to create your own Harvest Wreath, a Centerpiece or Harvest Dried Flower Hedge that highlights all the best of a thankful season. At our Harvest Brunch, Elaine & Anna will have lots of tips and ideas for bringing an autumn garden look into your home decorating and entertaining! Like, welcome options for your entrance and front door, outdoor urns with fall’s treasures…. dahlias, zinnias, kale, heather and vines. Grand arrangements, garlands and wreaths with everlastings like grains and grasses, dried flowers, lavender and other herbs, grapevine, pumpkins and gourds – with a special accent on featuring your treasured antiques (and ones you’ve tucked away and forgotten). Of course you will have a chance to purchase any of her creations made right there on the spot! Hope to see you there!
For more details or to book, phone 416-363-7433
or
Email us Evergreen Festival December, 2011
Tis the Season for over-the-top Holiday Decorating - Our Specialty! This year’s festival starts in mid November and runs through to mid December and transforms The Distillery Historic District, into a variable Evergreen French Garden Market!!! Stroll through the cobblestone laneways and enjoy the scents, sights and sounds of an old fashioned Christmas – with the Distillery’s usual contemporary twist! Pick up all of your seasonal must-haves, wreaths, evergreen boughs, berries, branches and cones. Sip on cider and make it a day of your own!
...and
other workshops throughout the Holiday Season. Also in December: The Evergreen Festival Christmas Market in The Distillery District promises to be a lot of fun!!!! The Evergreen Stage: On stage every hour in the Outdoor Market is a different presentation/demonstration by Vintage Gardener and their celebrity guests.
Join us in The Distillery Historic District, where spring comes early this year at our Cabin Fever Breakaway. If you are a gardener longing for warm soil under your nails and the site of the first Robin, this may be just what the doctor ordered! Cabin Fever Breakaway Festival starts with our annual Cabin Fever Breakaway Brunch (always a sell-out crowd!) in mid February and continues to the end of February with daily workshops, and even a floral contest !!! A great day with your client, mother or your friends.
For more information visit our
Workshops Page
A Cabin Fever Breakaway Brunch
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