Top Spots for Garden Touring in the Great Canadian Wilderness
This summer in Algonquin Park, the Almaguin Highlands, Loring-Restoule, Muskoka, and Parry Sound, garden touring is a new favourite way for visitors to experience this region. Maybe it’s because the organized beauty of a garden, juxtaposed against the wild landscape backdrop, makes for an unforgettable canvas of blooms in the Great Canadian Wilderness. Here is just a partial list of some of the cool spots to get your outdoor flower fix.
Flora fans can wander through six acres of stunning colour at the Rotary Centennial Garden in Bracebridge, located on the corner of Pine Street and Taylor Road – also a favourite spot for an afternoon picnic or evening stroll with your pet.
Also in Bracebridge, a visit to The Artful Garden is an annual affair. Featuring artistic displays by over 40 artists in the spectacular gardens owned by artists Jon and Suzann Partridge at their Muskoka studio, the garden is open to the public daily from July to August 10, 2014 from 10am to 5pm.
The Tower Hill Heritage Garden in Parry Sound is worth the climb to the top, and also a great place to have a picnic and view the harbour. It’s also one of the Top Ten Amazing Places of the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve, as voted by the public.
Not to be missed, in 2014 the Town of Gravenhurst participated in the Communities in Bloom program on a provincial level in which it was voted as one of the top ten most beautiful down towns in Ontario!
And for a taste of the mystical, visit The Enchanted Forest at the Wood’s End Studio of carver John de Lang, in Kilworthy, Muskoka, and the Tree Museum in Gravenhurst.
