Thursday 23 August 2012

Canada's Garden Route Winners, Susan & Melissa at Parkwood


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.