We were in Toronto this afternoon and decided to stop in and check out the garden at Casa Loma - admission is free to the garden after 4:00 when the house closes.
In case you don't know what Casa Loma is, see the link below...
It's a sort of fairy-tale-looking castle in the middle of Toronto.
This is a view of the front entrance (you can see on the left side that one wing is covered with scaffolding so some repairs are obvoiusly being made to something...)
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And another view from the east side:
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In the front entrance picture you can see some pink roses. There were a number of them in the front. I'm not sure what their name is but I really liked them. The beds they were in were edged in some places with matching pale pink annual geraniums and something silver; it other places there was lavender edging. Here are a couple of views of them:
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In the front entrance picture, you can also see a bit of stone wall. The castle is surrounded by a very interesting stone wall. Here is a view of a piece of the wall:
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Unfortunately, of the main garden areas, only the lower terrace was accessible for me. There is a fairly extensive forest/woodland garden but, since it is on a hill, there is a lot of stairs and steep slopes so I couldn't go there. Also, much of it is a spring garden so its primary showy season is over now.
The terrace garden is a more formal layout, but asymetrical in that there is a prominent pool and fountain but it's not in the center. Looking at the main beds on the lower terrace garden from the upper terrace:
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The pool and fountain viewed through the upper terrace wall:
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The steps leading down to the wooded areas lead off from left of the pool, past a wall covered in climbing hydrangea:
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I was hoping that there would be a larger part of the garden that would be accessible for me... The recreating (not a true restoration) of the gardens didn't start until 1987 or so and I think the last time I had been to Casa Loma was before that! So I wasn't sure what to expect.... If you're ever in Toronto, Casa Loma is well worth a visit.
Here is a link that might be useful: Casa Loma
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