An Elegant Aerie Worth the Wait
Globe & Mail, Sept 12 2009
For a man who designs some of the chicest gardens in Canada, Toronto landscape architect Ronald Holbrook was surprisingly slow to create his own. In 2000, he bought a two-storey loft on the city’s eastern downtown edge and managed to live for years with a terrace full of dead cedars. Finally fed up, he designed what he considered the ideal terrace garden for presentation at the 2006 Canada Blooms garden show. Everyone who saw it oohed and aahed and it was showered with awards. But when the show was over, the design elements went straight into storage in a field, covered over with a tarp.