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Allan Gardens Conservatory
The jewels of this scruffy city park are its six early-20th-century greenhouses, filled with huge palms and trees from around the world divided into arid, cool and tropical plantings. On a cold day it's a great place to warm up - check out the spiky golden barrel cacti in the arid garden and pretend you're in Death Valley. Limited free parking is available off Horticultural Ave.
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Cloud Forest Conservatory
This unexpected downtown sanctuary is a steamy tropical greenhouse, crowded out with enormous jungle leaves, vines and palm trees. Built vertically as a 'modernist ruin,' it features exposed steel, a waterfall and a mural depicting the trades of construction workers. Information plaques answer the question 'What Are Rainforests?' for temperate Torontonians, distracting financial workers from their spreadsheets and sums for a few minutes.
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High Park
Delightfully unkempt, Toronto's biggest park (398 acres) is a heavenly escape - unfurl a picnic lunch, cycle around, ice-skate or just sit amongst great stands of oaks and watch the sunset. Near the north gates are tennis courts and an outdoor swimming pool. The main road weaves south through the park; another road branching to the east takes you to the Dream in High Park stage. Further south are the Hillside Gardens overlooking Grenadier Pond where people ice-skate in winter.
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Toronto Music Garden
Delicately strung along the western Harbourfront, this sculpted garden was designed by Julie Moir in collaboration with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. It aims to express Bach's Suite No 1 for Unaccompanied Cello through landscape. An arc-shaped grove of conifers introduces a treble-clef-shaped path through a meadow and a grass-stepped amphitheatre where free concerts are held from June to September (usually Thursday and Sunday).
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