Occasional Toronto: Garden Canoe

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Garden Canoe

I posted a pic of one of the Homegrown National Parks last year (HERE) and since then I have spotted quite a few of them around the west end of the city. They began as a campaign to establish a green corridor along the route of one of our now-buried creeks but I think that it has broadened to create a larger corridor. This bottomless canoe has been nicely planted and is located at the corner of Davenport Rd & Bathurst St, a busy corner for traffic and highly visible.
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33 comments:

EG CameraGirl said...: Fabulous idea!; July 15, 2015 at 9:13 AM
Karl said...: Nice idea, looks good !; July 15, 2015 at 9:45 AM
Kate said...: That long blue canoe is a perfect container for flowers and blooms.; July 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM
John @ Beans and I on the Loose said...: I would never have thought...; July 15, 2015 at 10:35 AM
Stephanie said...: Good idea on recycling an old canoe.; July 15, 2015 at 10:36 AM
21 Wits said...: Now this is absolutely brilliant! Great idea.; July 15, 2015 at 10:39 AM
Sharon said...: I love that blue canoe full of flowers.; July 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM
VP said...: Nice color, good idea!; July 15, 2015 at 11:34 AM
William Kendall said...: A very different use for a canoe. I've seen the concept used before.; July 15, 2015 at 11:52 AM
Anonymous said...: Great use of an old canoe, we have a few similar things around here... using rowing boats!; July 15, 2015 at 12:21 PM
Halcyon said...: Love this!; July 15, 2015 at 12:43 PM
cieldequimper said...: Looks fab!; July 15, 2015 at 1:07 PM
Gosia said...: it is high time to swim..; July 15, 2015 at 1:50 PM
Andy said...: Seeing plants growing in a canoe is a first for me.; July 15, 2015 at 2:34 PM
Nonnie said...: love it, especially its color!; July 15, 2015 at 2:35 PM
Marleen said...: I have never seen this before, a great idea!; July 15, 2015 at 2:49 PM
Revrunner said...: Whoa! Never! Not to my canoe. :-); July 15, 2015 at 3:19 PM
Tom said...: I'd hate to portage it. Tom The Backroads Traveller; July 15, 2015 at 3:57 PM
Tom said...: I'd hate to portage it. Tom The Backroads Traveller; July 15, 2015 at 3:57 PM
TexWisGirl said...: pretty cute idea!; July 15, 2015 at 4:00 PM
Susan Demeter said...: Very cool! They have one at The Grange in Mississauga too :); July 15, 2015 at 4:51 PM
Lesley said...: What a great idea. And a canoe is quite symbolic of the buried creek, I'm sure.; July 15, 2015 at 5:41 PM
Gemma Wiseman said...: What a brilliant, creative idea. The intense blue highlights the plants beautifully.; July 15, 2015 at 5:49 PM
Photo Cache said...: This is a great idea.

My SIGNS, SIGNS; July 15, 2015 at 6:36 PM
Taken For Granted said...: That canoe seems to have found a second life as a planer. Perhaps someone had enough of the water.; July 15, 2015 at 6:40 PM
hamilton said...: This has more style than a bathtub planter.; July 15, 2015 at 8:32 PM
Michelle said...: I like this a lot!; July 15, 2015 at 10:20 PM
Cloudia said...: What a nice idea to blossom!

Aloha; July 16, 2015 at 12:29 AM
Jim said...: This is great; July 16, 2015 at 12:30 AM
s.c said...: You see a lot of containers for plants as for instance the loo but a canoe is for me a first. Thanks for showing.; July 16, 2015 at 5:54 AM
Jack said...: Very nice. It draws the eye with its strangeness, but then it holds the eye with its bright blue and the beauty of the plantings.; July 16, 2015 at 10:56 PM
Linda said...: Well, that's a planter I haven't seen before!; July 17, 2015 at 12:11 AM
Linda said...: Quintessentially Canadian municipal planting!
This is the sort of canoe my daughter took campers on out-trips in last summer in Ontario.; July 19, 2015 at 1:42 PM

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