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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 416-862-9500 or email elaine@vintagegardener.com. For larger groups or garden clubs - we've been known to send Elaine on the road ! Reservations: 416-862-9500 or Email A Lavender Festival Sunday, August 16th to 29th, 2010 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
416-862-9500
or
email The Harvest Festival The Distillery Historic District Sunday, September 26th to Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
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 416-862-9500
or
Email us
Evergreen Festival 2010
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 It all kicks off with a two day Festival Fair held in The Distillery Historic District’s Fermenting Cellar. Tickets are $20. The Evergreen Festival Fair promises to be a lot of fun!!!! The Evergreen Stage: On stage every hour in the Fermenting Cellar is a different presentation/demonstration by Vintage Gardener and their celebrity guests. The Evergreen Fair: Our Designers have set up stations in the Fermenting Cellar where you can “make-your-own” Evergreen Hostess Gifts, Wreaths, Planters, Centrepieces and Urns. Or visit our Ribbon & Bow Bar to learn to make your own drop-dead-gorgeous French Ribbon Bow!
The Evergreen Festival carries on: Workshops take place mornings and evenings throughout the Evergreen Festival. And here is an Early Bird Special Offer! Purchase your workshop ticket before Labour Day for $95 per person; after Labour Day, it’s back to regular price $125. And of course it would not be the same without our Festival Brunch & the Festival Luncheon – held at Archeo Trattoria in The Distillery Historic District.
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!) Feb 20th and continues to Feb 28th 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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For reservation inquiries call 416-862-9500
Cabin Fever
Breakaway Floral Contest !!!
...and your opportunity to meet Gemini Award
winner, Ambrose – host of
HGTV’s hit show “The
Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price” (he is one of our judges)
Sunday, February 28
This
is your chance to shine! Take a risk! Show off a little! Just have some
mid-winter fun!!!
Our
suppliers have donated some pretty cool prizes. There is no cost to you –
but Ambrose and I will ask you to drop your toonies into a jar for our
Cancer Research drive!
So
take a look at the categories listed below, unleash your creativity and
Bring your entries in to our studio in the Distillery Historic District
before 11:00 am – Judging begins promptly at 11:30
am !!! (You’ll need to RSVP to let us know you are coming – because
that is just polite!)
Five categories to enter:
Small Pleasures - Spring Miniature
– this is a fresh cut floral arrangement which must be smaller than 5”
measured in any direction. Judges will look for creative containers and
spring mini flowers for a charming miniature arrangement.
For the Birds - Branches
in Blossom – this is an arrangement emphasizing tall
branches forced to an early spring bloom. You may add greenery and spring
cut flowers also. You can set beside the arrangement a co-ordinated
treasure to make it a “vignette”. Judges will be looking for a component
for our feathered friends.
Give us a Song and Name
it! ..Dusting off your Top Hat
(well, antique) – Open up your cupboards, attic or an old
hope chest and find something you have not used for a while – a wedding
gift, a hand-me-down, and in this, design a spring arrangement of your own
inspired by the title of an old song – plants, cut flowers or everlastings
– your choice.
Spring Window Box
Plantings – This is to be an arrangement of plants –
Spring plantings of course – so get your fingers
dirty ! Judges will look for composition, plant choice and
placement to make an interesting “indoor” window box for a hopeful hint of
Spring.
The Centre of Attention
– a spring centrepiece for a dinner party – This should be designed to
have a conversation over and around – at a Spring
dinner party. Judges here will be looking for interesting colour
combinations.
Have fun !!!! and see you Saturday morning ! RSVP please – so we know to expect you !
Sunday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 9th, 2010
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 !!!
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Festival at a Glance: |
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| Sunday May 2 | Mother’s Day Floral Brunch - $55 per person or $95 for two | |
| Monday May 3 | Everlasting Window Box Garland - $75 per person or $125 for two | |
| Tuesday May 4 | Spring Window Box - $95 per person or $175 for two | |
| Wednesday May 5 | Spring Wreath - $95 per person or $175 for two | |
| Thursday May 6 | Spring Hanging Basket - $95 per person or $175 for two | |
| Friday May 7 | Pretty in Pink Basket - $95 per person $175 for two | |
| Saturday May 8 | Gifts from the Potting Shed - $55 per person $95 for two | |
| Sunday May 9 | TBA | |
For reservation inquiries call 416-862-9500
Join Elaine, our Vintage Gardener & her design team, for our annual Mother’s Day Brunch, on Sunday May 2nd, 11:00 am to 2:00 ish in The Distillery Historic District. $55 pp or $95 for two
Our Mothers’ Day Floral Festival continues to May 9 with daily workshops at Vintage Gardener, The Distillery Historic District (details here soon!)
For more information visit our
Workshops Page
For reservation inquiries call 416-862-9500
Sunday, July 18th to Sunday, July 25th, 2010
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:
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Ready to plant four inch herb pots, 3 for $10,
· Designer Terrace Planters $45, ready to pop in place – a Moveable Feast!
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 on Sunday July 18th).
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Festival at a Glance: |
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| Sunday July 18 | Culinary Herb Festival Luncheon - $55 per person or $95 for two | |
| Monday July 19 | Herb Drying Rack - $55 per person or $95 for two | |
| Tuesday July 20 | Window Box Herb Garden - $75 per person or $125 for two | |
| Wednesday July 21 | Herb Wreath - $75 per person or $125 for two | |
| Thursday July 22 | Edible Garden - Terrace Planter - $95 per person or $175 for two | |
| Friday July 23 | Hanging Garden - $125 per person or $195 for two | |
| Saturday July 24 | Urban Gardener - $75 per person or $125 for two | |
| Sunday July 25 | Lavender 101 - $55 per person or $95 for two | |
For more information or to buy tickets,
visit our Workshops Page or
call
416-862-9500
Sunday July 18th
A Culinary Herb Celebration! Vintage Gardener’s own Elaine & Anna, join their special guest, Chef Audrey Demers. The threesome are both entertaining and informative as they share tips on the cultivation and growing of a culinary herb garden, container plantings, decorative uses of herbs and some of their favourite recipes.
You'll have a chance to taste some incredible edibles including a flower or two, and while you are at it, you can purchase and plant up your own mini herb garden to take home!
Hope to see you and your friends!
$55 per person, includes
brunch
$95 for two, includes brunch
