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LANDSCAPE ONTARIO CONGRESS
Each January our second year students build the Feature Garden at the annual Landscape
Ontario Conference and Trade Show held at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto.
It is an opportunity to showcase the Program and the talents of our students to members
of the industry, who are potential employers of our graduates.
WORLD YOUTH DAY PROJECT
In June of 2000 our program was honoured by an invitation to design and build the staircase
garden to the stage used for the mass by The Holy Father, Pope John Paul III, at Downsview
Park in Toronto. The design is based on a symbolic stream, waterfall and pond built entirely
with plants. Dark green Burning Bush shrubs are mass-planted to represent the stream banks.
Blue Lobelia and blue Salvia are used for the water, and white Lobelia for the highlights
and foaming or white water of the waterfall. The pre-apprenticeship students built the garden.
The mass was attended by a live audience of half million worshippers and viewed by a worldwide
audience of millions.
FLORA MONTREAL
In June of 2007 student volunteers and staff of the program designed and built a garden at Flora Montreal – an outdoor garden exposition located on the historic Old Port of Montreal. The garden featured:
- Screen and faux bay window that will include mosaic panels done by local children.
- Patio built with a premium interlocking paving stone from Techo Bloc Limited.
- A deck made of composite (plastic) wood manufactured by Brite Manufacturing.The deck is built over the pool and is designed to be flooded
to occasionally serve as a spray pool.
- A 7’ high waterfall with a walk-through tunnel behind it and flanked by terraced planters of Castlerok precast blocks manufactured by Oaks Concrete Products Ltd. The pool and waterfall are built with liner, pump and components supplied by Atponds Ltd.
- Sunken play pit protected from the wind and sun by vine covered wire mesh screen and pergola.
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