The Canadian Garden Council ( CGC ) is lofty to promulgate 2022 as the Year of the Garden to celebrate the centenary of Canada ’s ornamental horticulture sector and to honour the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association ’s 100 - year anniversary .
The Year of the Garden 2022 invites Canadians across the country to commemorate Canada ’s garden heritage , observe today ’s vibrant garden culture and make legacies for a sustainable future . The CGCis calling on phallus of Parliament to officially designate 2022 as Canada ’s Year of the Garden .
A late Nanos canvass found four in five Canadians favour designate 2022 as the Year of the Garden . “ We are very supportive of exalt 2022 as Canada ’s Year of the Garden in celebration CNLA ’s centennial , ” says Phil Paxton , President of the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association . “ Our fellow member are dedicated to provide products and services that give to the quality of life of Canadians and a sustainable developing of Canada . We also see that gardening and garden will be an significant factor in the post - COVID recovery ; there could be no well sentence to fete Canada ’s garden cultivation . ”
Canada ’s passion for gardening has never been more patent than during the COVID-19 pandemic . During the summer of 2020 Canadians shelter at place and twist their grounds into virtual andbeautiful garden sanctuaries , and enquiry indicate that this trend is set to continue . According to a recent NANOS poll , four in five Canadians wait to spend the same or more prison term gardening in 2021than they did in 2020 .
“ Canada a garden nation ? A res publica of nurseryman ? You bet , ” says Alexander Reford , President of the Canadian Garden Council and Director of Reford Gardens - Jardins de Métis . “ Gardening is a apportion passion from coast to glide to glide . Not only do our garden allow us to enjoy the sapidity and crust of veg , herbs and comestible flush , our flowerbed and forest nourish our health and felicity . Our world postulate more nurseryman , and Canadians are leading the charge to plant to make a better planet . The Year of the Garden 2022 is an inclusive home festivity of what we are and where we are function — a nation of nurseryman . ”
The legacy of the Year of the Garden 2022 will be an improved quality of life for Canadians through sustainable ontogenesis to fight climate change , impart important health and well - being benefits and drive economic increase .
Canadian who underpin the Year of the Garden 2022 are encouraged to give tongue to their funding for an official appointment to their local Member of Parliament .
Visitwww.yearofthegarden.cafor more information .
For more info : Canadian garden councilwww.gardenscanada.ca
