Getting Down to Earth, Where the Sky’s the Limit
Globe & Mail, March 12 2010
Recession or no recession, the demand for big-ticket landscape is growing—spurred on by a booming local real-estate market and the presence of gardening shows like Canada Blooms, opening in Toronto on Wednesday. With homeowners spending money as if it grew on the trees they are newly coveting, the million-dollar garden is—even before the snow melts—the season’s hottest home trend.
“It is the new status symbol,” says Ron Holbrook, the award winning Toronto-based landscape architect who is booked through most of 2010 with no job costing less than $200,000, his bare minimum starting price.
“A fabulous garden is what everyone wants these days.”