John Shaw-Rimmington gave a 60 minute presentation discussing the use of stone in Canadian garden settings including walls, garden features, arches and bridges. The meeting of the Parkdale and Toronto Horticultural Societies meets at the Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church at 250 Dunn Avenue, Toronto,
Members of the DSWAC helped build an 'on-the-bias' dry stone wall and garden arch feature for the Mariposa Gardens display at the San Francisco Flower and Garden show this March 2009.
June 14 2009.
Students rest at the end of two days of intensive dry stone building in the hot sun.
The second phase of the Holsteing 'blackhouse' event was very successful.
Participants from New York City, Ottawa, London, and Toronto came together to learn how to make dry laid walls this weekend January 10-11.
Our first DSWAC workshop of the new year was held inside a lovely barn just outside Grafton Ontario.
A new dry stone wall structure was designed for the Niagara Botanical gardens by John Shaw-Rimmington and Evan Oxland and built by the students, under the instruction of Norman Haddow and John as part of the DSWAC dry stone garden feature workshop at the Niagara Park Commission School of Horticulture
This November 1st the DSWAC gave a one-day course in Beaverton Ontario at the site of an ambitious dry stone wall folly built early May 2008 to look like an old church ruins
Ten students were given a day of hands-on instruction as they added to the north wall.
40 feet of wall was worked on and brought to a height where it adds another perspective to the overall look of this unique dry stone structure