E D I T O R I A L


How come “Home”?


You will have noticed a change on our masthead


which now designates your magazine as the On- tario Home & Gardener Living Magazine. You may be wondering why we have done this. The reasons are two-fold: 1. Gardening has grown and changed since we started this magazine 15 years ago. Then it was all


about discovering new plants, particularly flowers, and while we still have this love affair with plants, our garden habits have changed. Today, people want the whole package. They want their gardens to look like


those in England, or that they see in glossy U.S. publications. They want the hard features – the patios and the raised gardens, the waterfalls and the ponds and the bridges and arbours and pretty pathways, not to mention all the ac- coutrement that go with comfortable outdoor living. And gardeners care just as passionately about their homes and their home interiors as they do about their outdoor space. I have never yet visited a garden that wasn’t owned by someone with a lovely home interior. The garden is a reflection of the taste and sensibility of the whole person. 2. The second reason is our advertising base. Advertisers, for some reason,


equate the word “gardener” with some strange creature from another planet that just delves in the mud and never gets any help from anywhere. We can tell them till we are blue that many of you read the magazine for ideas and then look for someone else to carry out your plans, but many of the suppliers to the industry simply don’t believe this. We are hoping an emphasis on the “home” may help their understanding.


Our advertisers value your business


Meanwhile the advertisers who are in this issue do understand you and value your business, so we encourage you to support them as heartily as you can. The paving and fencing companies we have included are honest and trust- worthy contractors whom you can rely on and trust. Note, also, that we support local gardener centers and suppliers and we


hope you will, too. Their products are often grown right here and they stand behind what they sell.


Publisher


Pegasus Publications Inc. Design


Cottonwood Publishing Services


Managing Editor Dorothy Dobbie


dorothy@pegasuspublications.net


General Manager Steven Wintemute


steven.wintemute@pegasuspublications.net


Art Director Gayl Punzalan


gayl@pegasuspublications.net Editorial Advisory Board


Janet Anderson, Susan Antler, Ted Blowes, Wendy Chrystian, Cathie Cox,


Tony di Giovanni, Sarah Holland, Liz Klose, Martin Quinn, Nancy Sim, John Valleau


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We acknowledge the financial support of the government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program and the Canada Magazine Fund, toward our website


Dorothy Dobbie


improvements. ONTARIO GARDENER is published five times annu- ally by Pegasus Publications Inc. Regularly available by purchase at newsstands and retail locations throughout Ontario or by subscription. Visa, MasterCard and Ameri- can Express accepted. Publisher buys all editorial rights and reserves the right to republish any material purchased. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright Pegasus Publications Inc.


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