WE CREATE
The annual Canada Blooms event was the brainchild of the Garden Club of Toronto. It launched the city’s first Flower Show in 1954 in the Leaside Memorial Gardens. It featured educational displays, competitive flower arrangements and horticulture classes. Subsequent venues included Casa Loma, the O’Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts (today’s Meridian Hall), and the CNE’s Automotive Building (Beanfield Centre). In 1997, the GCT joined forces with Landscape Ontario to sponsor the first Canada Blooms Flower Show. The renowned Canada Blooms show was held at a succession of landmark Toronto venues in March each year.
With the Covid pandemic abruptly shutting down the Canada Blooms show on opening day, this eagerly anticipated spring tradition went into hibernation throughout the pandemic. Hit hard by the financial consequences of the 2020 closure, attempts by the Garden Club of Toronto and Landscape Ontario to revive the show in 2023 were not successful.
Not to be daunted, after much discussion, the Garden Club of Toronto decided to build on the strength of its monthly flower and horticulture shows to open its May show to the general public in 2024. Deemed a success, the public show is being repeated this May on May 22, 2025 at the TBG from 2-8pm. We hope you can join us!