The masterplan to the Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens


Peony garden and the metal gazebo.


Hall in the 1910s, Howard and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb in the 1920s (they became the founders of Sheridan Nurs- eries and the Society of Landscape Architects) and the award winning John Lyle in the 1930s — all worked on the creation of the gardens. Today the gardens are preserved to their 1930s appearance and even incorporate period plants grown in the greenhouses. The earliest gardens were carefully designed as outdoor


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The memory garden.


spaces linked to important indoor rooms and their terrac- es. As the gardens and parkland grew, the formal gardens were divided by screening hedges from the wilder but lovely forest beyond as well as from the working and cutting gardens and the stables. Three of the greenhouses are still in commission, being


home to plant production as well as to a tropical house, the Japanese Garden and the Greenhouse Tea Room.


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