Garden displays range from small specimen plantings to spacious gardens that highlight park amenities, define spaces, and offer a range of floral and habitat supporting experiences specific to the location and uses of the space.
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Albert Campbell Square Park | Albert Campbell Square Park at 150 Borough Dr. Unique Display. Situated adjacent to the Scarborough Civic Center, this extensive garden features a mass of colour on flowering native and non-native plants. |
| Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens | Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens at 2901 Yonge St. Traditional Garden. Features formal flowers, balconies, a sunken garden with repeating maple leaf motifs that pay homage to the famed composer. |
| Berczy Park | Berczy Park at 35 Wellington St. E. Unique Display. This wedge-shaped park tucked behind the Flatiron building hosts flowering perennial gardens, public art and a whimsical fountain featuring dogs. |
| Bluffers Park | Bluffers Park at 1 Brimley Rd. S. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. Features natural wetlands, ponds, coastal beach, dune, and prairie communities alongside ecological gardens designed to offer seasonal colour and pollinator-protecting habitat gardens. |
| Canoe Landing Park | Canoe Landing Park at 95 Fort York Blvd. Cultural Garden. Features a natural bluff, art by Douglas Coupland and demonstrates native slope plant communities and water recycling technologies. |
| Cedar Ridge Creative Centre Gardens | Cedar Ridge Creative Centre Gardens at 225 Confederation Dr. Cultural Garden. The floral gardens at Cedar Ridge include arbours, outstanding views and scenic trails around the mansion built in 1912. |
| Corktown Common | Corktown Common at 155 Bayview Ave. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. An ecologically designed park featuring native marsh, meadow, woodlands, and wetland plant communities managed using only organic land care practices. |
| Cornell Campbell House | Cornell Campbell House at 3620 Kingston Rd. Traditional Garden. Designated by the Borough of Scarborough in 1979 as a property of historical value, the grounds and gardens feature flowers, heritage farm artifacts, bird baths, community gardens, allotment gardens and an extensive woodlot with large specimens of maple, oak and beech. |
| Don Valley Brickworks Park | Don Valley Brickworks Park at 550 Bayview Ave. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. A rehabilitated and naturalized former quarry and kiln with native meadow, woodland, and wetland plant communities. |
| Dr. Lillian McGregor Park | Dr. Lillian McGregor Park at 25 Wellesley St. W. Cultural Garden. Honours indigenous culture and spirituality with gathering spaces and public art by Kenneth Lavallee set within a palette of tolerant shrubs and perennials. |
| East Point Park | East Point Park at 101 Copperfield Rd. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. One of Toronto’s largest parkland areas along the City’s east waterfront. It is a migratory staging area for monarch butterflies and over 178 species of birds. There are also ornamental garden beds. |
| Edithvale Park | Edithvale Park at 121 Finch Ave. W. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. Developed using sustainable technologies, this park features a wet meadow, green roof and Pollinator Habitat Gardens fed by permeable paving and rainwater harvesting systems. |
| Edwards Gardens | Edwards Gardens at 755 Lawrence Ave. E. Feature Park. This former estate garden features perennials and roses on the uplands and wildflowers, rhododendrons, and an extensive rockery in the valley. The property was originally owned by Alexander Milne, who wanted to see the gardens become a public park and in 1955, the City purchased the property. |
| Ethennonnhawahstihnen' Park | Ethennonnhawahstihnen' Park at 80 Mcmahon Dr. E. Cultural Garden. Features indigenous art, flowering gardens and a pavilion. |
| Fairford Avenue Parkette | Fairford Avenue Parkette at 68 Fairford Ave. Unique Display. A rain garden and stormwater management system featuring a pollinator-supporting habitat. |
| Grange Park | Grange Park at 26 Grange Rd. W. Cultural Garden. Features gardens, open greenspace, a Georgian Manor, sculpture, inspirational inscriptions and a focus on cultural diversity. |
| High Park | 1873 Bloor St. W. Feature Park. Visit High Park's garden section for details. |
| Humber Bay Park | Humber Bay Park at 2195 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. Created with lakefill features, there are several habitat restoration features, including butterfly habitat, wildflower meadows, short-grass prairie, and native Carolinian species. |
| Ireland Park | Ireland Park at 5 Eireann Quay. Cultural Garden. Commemorates the thousands who fled the Great Famine and offers five bronze sculptures created by the renowned sculptor Rowan Gillespie and an Irish quarry wall of names of the dead. |
| James Gardens | James Gardens at 99 Edenbridge Dr. Traditional Garden. This former estate is known for its formal gardens, meandering stone pathways, natural spring-fed pools and streams next to the ecologically significant Lambton Woods. |
| Joel Week Park | Joel Week Park at 10 Thompson St. Unique Display. Features a bosque of trees, funky sculptural elements, a community garden, grassy berms, and perennial plantings to support a playful urban river water play feature. |
| Joshua Glover Park | Joshua Glover Park at 25 Ackley Hts. Unique Display. This small urban community park is home to public art and a Rain Garden, designed to collect and filter water runoff while providing important food sources for birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects. |
| Kay Gardner Beltline Park | Kay Gardner Beltline Park at 378 Mount Pleasant Rd. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. Follows an old railway line surrounded by a naturalized ravine from Allen Road south of Elm Ridge Drive west to Mount Pleasant Cemetery. |
| Kew Gardens | Kew Gardens at 2075 Queen St. E. Traditional Garden. This historic 6.5-hectare park features a historic Gardener’s Cottage, colourful annual, perennial and shrub gardens, towering trees, and winding pathways. |
| Olympic Park | Olympic Park at 222 Bremner Blvd. Cultural Garden. Inspired by the Olympic Torch, this small park features colourful perennials, grasses and a donor walk. |
| Queen’s Park | Queen’s Park at 110 Wellesley St. W. Cultural Garden. Named after Queen Victoria, this culturally and ecologically significant landscape is the largest green space in the downtown core. It offers a picturesque landscape, military monuments, a large fountain and both formal ornamental gardens and naturalized native plants. |
| Rosetta McClain Gardens | Rosetta McClain Gardens at 5 Glen Everest Rd. Traditional Garden. The ornamental garden and fountain features braille signage, rose gardens, native plant communities, surrounded by a pergola with spectacular views of Lake Ontario from the top of Scarborough Bluffs. |
| St. James Park | St. James Park at 120 King St. E. Traditional Garden. Located next to St. James Cathedral, these Victorian-inspired gardens feature ornamental displays, public art, a central fountain and a grand gazebo. |
| Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion | Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion at 1755 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Cultural Garden. A Toronto landmark built in the Italianate style in 1922, featuring ornamental gardens and cafes overlooking the western beaches. |
| The Guild Park and Gardens | The Guild Park and Gardens at 201 Guildwood Pkwy. Feature Park. The park is a sculptural sanctuary with beautiful gardens and links to influential artists and political figures of the past. Situated atop the Scarborough Bluffs, the park includes woods, waterfront, formal gardens and a unique collection of public art and architectural fragments. |
| Todmorden Mills Heritage Site | Todmorden Mills Heritage Site at 67 Pottery Rd. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. Houses a 9.2-hectare wildflower preserve with a walking trail adjacent to the Todmorden Mills Museum site where several natural habitats can be explored, including upland and bottomland forests, dry and wet meadows, swamplands and a pond. |
| Toronto City Hall | Toronto City Hall at 100 Queen St. W. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. The green roof garden features various species of drought-tolerant sun and shade sedum interspersed with native pollinator supporting habitat, designed to absorb rainwater, reduce runoff and insulate the roof. |
| Toronto Island Park | Take the ferry to Toronto Island Park. Feature Park. Visit Toronto Island Park's garden section for details. |
| Toronto Music Garden | Toronto Music Garden at 479 Queens Quay W. Cultural Garden. Inspired by the renowned cellist YoYo Ma, this garden features native and ornamental perennials, grasses, flowering shrubs, and wrought iron amenities representing Bach’s Suite No. 1. |
| Village of Yorkville Park | Village of Yorkville Park at 115 Cumberland St. Unique Display. Originally a parking lot, this imaginative, award-winning park incorporates elements of the neighbourhood’s history with garden features that represent Canada’s diverse geographical landscape. |
| Woodbine Park | Woodbine Park at 1695 Queen St. E. Ecological and Sustainable Garden. This large park features flowering annuals, perennials, shrubs, grasses, an ornamental fountain and a natural pond. |