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Mother's Day Gift Suggestions - To buy or just to browse
I'm not sure about you, but I LOVE to browse catalogues for seeds, plants, and gardening gadgets. In that spirit, we offer you three sites thave have somecool garden-related items.
HGTV - 25+ Gardening Gifts for Mom
From lavish to low cost, here are some garden inspired picks selected by HGTV editors.
House Beautiful - 18 Genius Gifts for the Gardener In Your Life
For the green thumb in your life, these are some great gardening gifts selected by House Beautiful magazine.
Lee Valley Tools - Great Gift Ideas for Mother's Day
Come on - what garden mom doesn't need at "pruner holster"! Lee Valley Tools has some ideas for the gardener and the garden decorator.
Things to See:
The Canadian Tulip Festival
The Canadian Tulip Festival will be offering ALL our performances, programming, and public participation ONLINE. We will continue to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands with all Canadians and the world through our website, our social media, and on our new YouTube Channel.
Commisionners Park is closed. The City of Ottawa, the NCC and the Canadian Tulip Festival ask everyone to Please Stay HOME and stay SAFE! There will be no staff, tour guides, volunteers, facilities, attractions or concerts on-site at Commissioners Park / Dow’s Lake this year.
24-hour Bloom Cam for Cherry Blossoms at High Park, Toronto
A beloved spring tradition, every year thousands of people visit High Park to catch a glimpse of the delicate pink flowers on Toronto’s Sakura (cherry blossom) trees. This year, as a part of the City’s COVID-19 response, High Park is closed for public safety reasons, during peak bloom. To ensure no one misses the annual bloom, the City is bringing spring indoors. Check in on the continuous livestream of the High Park grove 24 hours a day and watch the progress of the cherry tree blooms until peak bloom ends, as well as other interesting virtual events.
Find other goodies by scrolling down the Experiences Page
Things to Hear:
The The Old Farmer's Almanac produces two podcasts every month and one weekly podcast.
Farmer’s Calendar Podcast. These essays come from The Old Farmer’s Almanac annual publication. They are recorded by Julia Shipley, the author and poet. She draws from her life raising animals and vegetables on a small farm in Northern Vermont. This month: Farmer's Calendar for May 2020.
The monthly Garden Musings Podcast were written by George and Becky Lohmiller. Early recordings in the series were read by Almanac group publisher John Pierce, as well as Almanac copy editor Jack Burnett. Almanac editor Heidi Stonehill became the narrator in 2012. This month: Growing Beans Can Be A Snap.
The Astounding Universe Podcast. Listen to a weekly freewheeling exploration of the astonishing world of science! What’s the most inexplicable object in the cosmos? When is Doomsday coming? The heaviest thing in the universe? Nikola Tesla’s dark secret? All this and more, each week on Astounding Universe podcast with Bob Berman, astronomer for The Old Farmer’s Almanac. This week: Iridescent Clouds and Rainbow Colors,
All Podcasts in one location:
To make it easy to find Podcasts and Videos, they're now on one ready to get to page on gardeningcalendar.ca. Find Resources on the main menu https://gardeningcalendar.ca/resources/ and click "Podcasts and Videos"
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