Edwards Gardens is a botanical garden located on the southwest corner of Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue East in Toronto, Ontario. It is also the site of the Toronto Botanical Garden, a private not-for profit organization previously called the Civic Garden Centre.

It is a former estate garden featuring annuals, roses and wildflowers and an extensive rockery. It is located on Wilket Creek, one of the tributaries of the Don River West Branch. The estate’s title was once held by Alexander Milne, a Scottish weaver who settled here after the War of 1812 and left in 1832. The land and the woolen/saw mills was obtained by Rupert E. Edwards in 1944 and created his country home. Edwards home was left in neglect and was purchased by the Municipality of Metro Toronto in 1955 and became Edwards Gardens in 1956. The Civic Garden centre was relocated from another Milne property, the Milne home on Old Lawrence Avenue.

via en.wikipedia.org. More photos of Edwards Gardens here.

Doors Open Toronto begins tomorrow.

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Today we visited the MOCCA to see The Mechanical Bride photography exhibit. The two-storey LaChapelle photo is the show.

This was the best one so far but can stand more tinkering.

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Chillin’ with WCW by the lake. I found $1 in change that fell out of someone’s pocket.

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chromium-browser --enable-plugins --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions --app=URL
name it, add a custom icon and drag it to your toolbar, dockbar, etc.

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After we saw Robin Hood we walked around Dundas Square for a minute looking for the Copper Cowboy.

Buns at Mother’s

This afternoon I visited the new AGO exhibit Sculpture As Time. Highlights included Homographies by Chilango artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (above,) Twilight Avenger by Kelly Richardson and Anselm Kiefer’s Palmsonntag.