Immigration: Flower Beds

Aaron Harris Dept: Aaron Harris/ For the Sarah Nixon shown with flowers in her backyard in Toronto, Wednesday, August 18, 2010, according to Globe And Mail. Torontonian Sarah Nixon, whose floral service is called, appropriately, My Luscious Backyard, gets much of her raw material from her own home garden in the city's Parkdale neighbourhood. But she also taps three other local yards, where she tends flower beds with the permission of the owners either free of charge or for a small fee, depending on the condition of the garden and the 100-mile diet? Try the one-mile bouquet. Just like fruits and vegetables, much of Canada's flower supply is jetted in from distant lands, such as Colombia, Ecuador and the Netherlands. But this summer in particular, gardeners-turned-florists across the country have been resisting the imports while the season allows, transforming their own backyards and those of neighbours and strangers into mini flower farms for small-scale flower-arranging businesses. As reported in the news.
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