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Toronto Flower Market

99 Sudbury, torontoflowermarket.ca


On a chilly Saturday morning in early May, it seemed like everyone walking around Queen and Dovercourt was carrying armfuls of fresh blooms. It was launch day for the Toronto Flower Market, a monthly outdoor shopping op modelled on similar floral fairs in Amsterdam and London, and the brisk weather didn’t deter the posy pickers in their floral-print raincoats and booties from queuing up to shop from 15 different local growers.

Many of those vendors (including Pioneer Flower Farm, Dodd’s Greenhouses and Dutch Mill Gardens) are back Saturday (June 8) for the market’s second edition with a seasonal lineup of garden goods and cut stems. A neighbourhood flower shop and its own Ontario-grown stock is also featured at each event, starting this weekend with Poppies’s (1094 Queen West, 416-538-2497, poppiesplantofjoy.com) unique floral finds.

Toronto Flower Market picks: Get a large bunch of pink and white Asiatic and Oriental lilies for $12 4-inch pots of ivy and flowering annuals are $3 each or 10 for $25 versatile potted bougainvillea is happy outside from April through October and inside for the rest of the year, $20.

Look for: Hand-painted pots by designer Courtney Wotherspoon, who also created the floral motif on the market’s custom kraft paper wrapping.

Hours: 10 am to 3 pm on Saturday, June 8, July 13, August 10 and September 14.

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