Tel: 905-604-2451
Fax: 905-604-2762
Summer has arrived!
Kate's Garden offers an ever changing selection of Gardening and Botanical Arts classes to help you celebrate the beauty and natural rhythm of every season. Please visit the Events page to see what we have to offer this summer.
At our renovated studio, you will find our Studio Layout reflects our three key offerings:
At-Home Services, Seminars & Events and Discerning Garden Décor.
Our very busy Potting Room is the central hub from which we run our expanded list of At-Home Services, which include: Fine Gardening, Garden Renos, Container Gardening, Outdoor Decorating and so much more. At Kate's Garden, you will also find an expanded Seminar Room from which we share our ever growing list of Gardening, Botanical Arts, Flower Arranging and Lifestyle seminars, events and workshops.
Getting married? Hosting an event or fundraiser? Check out our totally unique DIY services. Guided by experts, we let you use our studio and resources to create your own wedding or event flowers, favours and more. Perfect for the budget-minded bride!
At our studio we are proud to carry primarily Canadian made Garden Décor and botanically inspired hostess gifts.
For more information about all of our services and events please click on the links in the main menu.
Welcome to
Kate's Garden!
St. Fiacre's Day $1000 Prize Draw
Each time you make a purchase or register for a seminar during Summer 2010, you can enter a ballot for a chance to win our $1000 prize draw . The prize can be redeemed in Garden Décor or Gardening Services…your choice!
St. Fiacre’s Day - Monday, August 30 is Prize Draw Day. St. Fiacre is the patron saint of gardeners.
Garden Renovations
Is your garden starting to look tired? Are you ready for a change? Give the gardening experts at Kate's Garden a call, and we'll transform your tired garden into a beautiful oasis - a perfect place for you to escape to this summer. It all starts with a walkabout of your garden. To book a walkabout please call 905-604-2451.
For more information on our services, please see our Gardening Services page.
My Garden
The morning wakes and all around is birdsong loud and sweet.
In haste I rise and go outside to seek my garden seat.
The flowers nod their greetings, my obsequious devotees.
I hear the trees a'whispering their secrets to the breeze.
Beds of annuals and perennials, host both butterflies and bees
And the old herbaceous border makes a multicoloured frieze.
My roses stand like royalty, making all a pure delight
And a blanket green lies in between these clouds of colour bright.
The changing seasons paint for me a passing picture show
Springtime bulbs. Summer flowers. Autumns afterglow.
My garden is my pleasure, my haven and my bower.
I work awhile. I rest awhile. I treasure every hour.
For miracles are commonplace, where tiny seeds I sow.
The secrets Nature guards so well, we mortals cannot know
What magic makes seeds germinate? How does my garden grow?
And I often wonder who creates, "the blossoms bright trouseau".
The potting shed and greenhouse stand behind my garden seat.
In them I am, by the world forgot, - and I from it retreat.
On land beyond the potting shed, where others do not go,
Fine products for my table, are growing neatly, row on row.
Weeding, hoeing, planting, I find contentment as I toil.
Time races by forgotten when I cultivate the soil.
The compost heap and farmyard supply my basic needs.
No artificial products ever touch my land or seeds.
But best of all is harvest time, 'tis then I see outspread,
Rewards for all the work I've done behind the potting shed.
My harvest work is happy work, a joyous occupation.
And harvest hymns are happy hymns, a heartfelt, glad ovation.
- George H. Bennett
(A Kate's Garden Customer)
