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Cultivating Canadian Gardens: A History of Gardening in Canada

Introduction
Planting the Seeds
Cultivating the Garden
The Cultivators

Reaping the Harvest

  • Harrowsmith
  • The New Experts
  • Their Own Gardens
  • The Garden in Literature
  • Gardening from Sea to Sea to Sea
  • All Kinds of Gardens in All Kinds
        of Spaces

    Bibliography
    Photos by Beth Powning
    Other Gardening Sites
    Acknowledgements

  • Reaping the Harvest: Gardening Today

    The Garden in Literature

    An Early Day.
    Pond, Judith.
    An Early Day.
    Ottawa: Oberon, 1989.
    Image of flower
    "Into the dark of January
    the seed catalogue bloomed"

    Seed Catalogue.
    Kroetsch, Robert.
    Seed Catalogue.
    Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1986, p. 4.
    Image of flower
    Lisa Melhorn-Boe has created a witty collage of Lorna Crozier's series of poems, in which the reader has to find the poet's work hidden within the seed catalogue text.

    The Sex Lives of Vegetables: A Seed Catalogue.
    Melhorn-Boe, Lisa and Lorna Crozier.
    The Sex Lives of Vegetables: A Seed Catalogue.
    North Bay, Ont.: Transformer, 1990.
    Image of flower
    Beth Powning's camera turns ordinary garden vegetables into works of art.

    "Red cabbage and frost crystals"

    Seeds of Another Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature.
    Powning, Beth.
    Seeds of Another Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature.
    Toronto: Penguin Studio, 1996, p. 28-29.


    "Red pepper"

    Seeds of Another Summer : Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature.
    Powning, Beth.
    Seeds of Another Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature.
    Toronto: Penguin Studio, 1996, pp. 28 and 29.