Most people around here do most of their planting in the spring. Our circumstance is a little different in that this season we have expanded our gardens mid-summer – and added a canoe garden. The new gardens are partially planted but we saved some room because we were planning to visit a nursery called Lost Horizons today.

We drove out to the nursery this morning. It’s located just west of Acton, less than an hour’s drive from here.

Lost Horizons doesn’t look like your average garden centre. It features extensive display gardens that in themselves are worth the drive.  They call themselves a small nursery but it’s large enough that I lost Tuffy P for 20 minutes. Early on in our venture, somebody armed us with their catalogue. Most garden centres have extensive labeling but at Lost Horizons, for many plants you need to look them up in the catalogue for some specifics about plant characteristics, size, light requirements and so on.

You can check out their extensive catalogue on their site. Just their selection of hostas was really extensive. I will say that the more unusual plants are expensive, but I suppose that is to be expected. For bargain plants there’s always the No Frills garden centre.

We loaded up the car with quite an assortment of plants and headed back to the city (stopping at a nice yard sale along the way).

If you live in the GTA and you love gardening, I recommend a trip out to Lost Horizons. They have put a huge amount of effort into their display gardens, and you’re likely to find a few unusual gems for the garden.