Blue painted cans act as a wall container, Toronto, Canada

Blue painted cans act as a wall container, Toronto, Canada, originally uploaded by Happy Sleepy.

This is an excellent flickr photoset with innovative ways to make a container garden.

Container Gardening in Toronto

Kgirl had the idea to make a container garden out of discontinued blue recycle bins.
They seem almost made for it, with the holes on the bottom like that.

Vintage Toronto

, originally uploaded by Gemma Grace.

Circa 1930 Brock Avenue, Toronto, Ontario: Nell Helps

Toronto from the Gardiner Expressway

Toronto from the Gardiner Expressway, originally uploaded by Melsky.

There's a whole series of these sort of living billboards by the side of the freeway. All the rest of them are corporations. You can see them from the GO train too.

Rose Garden at the Height of Summer

Rose Garden at the Height of Summer, originally uploaded by Melsky.

Toronto has some very beautiful gardens.

Garden at the top of the Royal York Hotel

We went to a centennial tea - it's the 100th anniversary of the Fairmont hotel chain, and they had a special tea for $19.07.

The tea itself was not great - sandwiches were a bit stale, the pastries were nothing special except the chocolate mousse cake, the crumpets tasted like the ones you get at the grocery store. Most annoyingly, they serve 8 tiny sandwiches for the three of us - kind of hard to divide up. Parties of two got three sandwiches each, but we were assured that it was standard procedure to give 8 sandwiches for parties of three. So you are penalized for having a larger party? Weird. These are tiny, tiny sandwiches on about a quarter piece of bread.

If you are thinking of going to tea at the Royal York, make sure to read this review first. (clue, if you must go, only go in pairs!)

Centennial Tea at the Royal York in Toronto

As part of the tea you get a tour of the herb gardens on top of the hotel. They are not open to the general public. This was the part that I liked best.



The gardens were impressive, but mostly I just enjoyed being up there and the view.

It's Green

This is the time of year when everything in Toronto seems green. All the grass, trees and plants go into overtime. I love it! Especially because in California where I'm from, this is when everything turns brown before the long hot summer.

This is a street between Little Italy and the Annex neighbourhoods. It's my favourite kind of Toronto residential street - old brick houses with big porches and nice gardens, big trees overhead and a strip of grass between the street and sidewalk.

Fallen Petals

Fallen Petals, originally uploaded by Melsky.

We had a pretty big rainstorm the other night, which knocked a lot of petals off the trees.

cosmos

cosmos, originally uploaded by Supercapacity.

Beautiful photo of the flower cosmos in front of a Toronto house.