GARDEN MAVEN: Lynn Murray, Collingwood, Ontario Zone 5B Our next Garden Maven is Lynn Murray, a gardener whose influence reaches well beyond the borders of her own beautiful Collingwood garden. For years, Lynn has led the charge behind the Collingwood Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale, which under her guidance has grown to become the club’s largest fundraiser. It is an enormous undertaking - collecting, nurturing, dividing, organizing and ultimately finding new homes for hundre

GARDEN MAVEN: Michelle Merizzi / Meaford, Ontario / Zone 5B We are delighted to introduce Michelle Merizzi of Meaford as our next Green Love Garden Maven — an enthusiastic, warm and welcoming gardener. Before the highly anticipated garden tour, we sat in Michelle's beautiful expansive garden, surrounded by every plant imagineable, and talked gardening, war stories from our past lives (turns out we both spent time around the Toronto commercial production scene), and we played,

GARDEN MAVENS: Emily Bi + Dennis Zhang Ginkgo Footprints Annan, Ontario / Zone 5B This past Saturday May 30th, 2026 a group of artists (myself included!) gathered at Ginkgo Footprints, the extraordinary garden created by GARDEN MAVENS Emily Bi and her husband, Dennis Zhang over the past 17 years. Nestled on the outskirts of Owen Sound, Ginkgo Footprints has been evolving since 2009 into what can only be described as a living work of art - a place where horticulture, wildlife

GARDEN MAVEN: Mary Ann's Forest Edge Garden Collingwood, Ontario / Zone 5B Our first Garden Maven is Mary Ann, a neighbour I have come to know since stumbling upon her remarkable Forest Edge Garden on the edge of Cranberry Golf Course. For more than thirty years, Mary Ann has tended, expanded, and evolved this woodland sanctuary. What began as a shared vision with neighbours who helped her carve stone pathways through the forest, has grown into an extraordinary garden that r