Parkwood welcomes Canada’s
Garden Route contest winners, Susan & Melissa.
Canada’s Garden Route
is a showcase of gardens coast to coast presented by VIA Rail. The route was recently promoted in an e-mail
contest with Scotts & Miracle Gro,
and the winners chose a Canadian garden journey aboard VIA over other international
garden offerings. And more exciting for
Parkwood, the winners selected our historic gardens (one of the 25 feature
gardens along the route) as one of five stops!
Winners Susan and Melissa experienced a sense of the lavish
lifestyle enjoyed by the family at this Canadian autobaron’s grand estate
during the inter-war years, and what it took to maintain it. Susan & Melissa sampled the worlds of
both the wealthy owners and the large house and garden staff: cutting fresh
flowers for the mansion; trimming up the mosaiculture beds in the Italian
Garden; lunching fountain-side at the Formal Garden teahouse; going behind the
scenes in the greenhouses and in the mansion; even meeting up with a crabby
cook and an errant parlormaid.
