Garden
Edwards Gardens
755 Lawrence Ave E, North York, ON M3C 1P2
Ravine garden of manicured lawns, ponds and a rockery, built atop a nineteenth-century mill site.
This guide to Edwards Gardens in Toronto follows Rupert Edwards, a wealthy businessman who bought this overgrown ravine on the spot in 1944, on the site of a Scottish miller's old mill. You'll hear how he built a private paradise here for himself: flowerbeds, ponds, a nine-hole golf course, a waterwheel rigged to generate its own electricity, and a rockery raised from over four hundred tons of stone. It traces just how far one man's obsession went when money was no object and the audience was only ever himself.
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