• Overview
• Arrival Courtyard
• Carpet Beds
• Demonstration Courtyard
• Entry Garden Walk
• Floral Hall Courtyard
• Garden Etiquette
• Garden Hall Courtyard
• Herb Garden
• Kitchen Garden
• Knot Garden
• Nature's Garden
• President's
  Choice Show Garden
• Special Exhibits
• Spiral Mound
• Teaching Garden
• Terrace Garden
• Westview
  Terrace
• Woodland Walk

In 2008, proceeds from Canada Blooms will be directed to a new garden at the Toronto Botanical Garden, the Woodland Walk. This garden, located at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Leslie Street, will be highly visible from the street and will announce the presence and beauty of the gardens that lie beyond. Recognizing the importance of beautifying this busy intersection and typical urban landscape, Toronto's Clean and Beautiful City program will also be contributing toward the project. In addition, Toronto Botanical Garden, a volunteer-driven, charitable organization, will be working closely with the Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation who are lending their support towards the creation of this garden.

"The Woodland Walk will have diverse and multiple missions." says Cathie Cox, Director of Horticulture at Toronto Botanical Garden, "It will be used for education, both passive and active, to promote sustainability, conservation and biodiversity as well as traditional horticulture."

The Woodland Walk will include a new pedestrian entryway from the street, leading and transitioning visitors into the botanical garden. There will be something new to discover each season. Spring will highlight a collection of dogwood trees, under planted with native woodland spring flowering perennials and ferns sitting beneath a canopy of mature trees. Native plants such as trilliums will be well represented in collections to showcase their diversity, while white flowering bulbs such as daffodils and snowdrops will be allowed to naturalize. Summer will reveal an extended border of richly coloured perennials, annuals and ornamental grasses that will continue to flower from June to September. In autumn, shrubs will provide fall interest alongside ornamental grasses and late flowering perennials and bulbs. And finally in winter, all of the seed heads and ornamental grasses will be left standing to provide winter architecture while providing sanctuary and food for birds and other wildlife.

From the hustle of the urban life to the dappled shade of open woodlands filled with native plants and borders of vivid seasonal colour, visitors will feel the change of setting as soon as they move from hard pavement to the softer path of natural wood chips. The Woodland Walk welcomes and invites its visitors to move further into the botanical garden, to reflect, learn and explore.