Upon arrival visitors show their ticket-guides to the garden sitter, then leisurely stroll through the gardens in the property. 

The route is usually between 5 and 10km long featuring 8 to 10 gardens.  We suggest you allow yourself at least 6 hours to make all the stops at a leisure pace, with a stop for lunch or refreshments along the route. 

History of Cloverleaf Garden Tours:

Cloverleaf has been hosting garden tours since 1966, each year with a selection of different private gardens in south Mississauga.

In an article by Mr. Art Drysdale published in iCanGarden.com, he says:

"...The first garden tour I ever attended was in 1966, and as far as I have been able to ascertain, it was in fact the first such tour at least in Ontario, perhaps in Canada.  It was the brainchild of the Cloverleaf Garden Club in what were then the communities of Port Credit, Clarkson and Lorne Park. They and others are all now part of the City of Mississauga.

It was Cloverleaf member (and strong promoter) Tom Crookston, who lived on Mineola Road West, who came to me with the idea asking my thoughts. I told him I thought it a great idea and over the next several years, I helped with various publicity ideas in order to build the attendance.

Naturally, Tom’s garden was on that first tour, and I can still remember seeing his wonderful English delphiniums and the many other fine perennials for the first time. In those days, annual flowers were King, and perennial growing was a lost art. Tom Crookston would be impressed with the huge surge in perennial gardening that has developed in the last two decades.

Cloverleaf now has a list of over 400 names of people who sign up at their tours in order that they be notified each year in advance. …" For the full article click here.

For more information or if you have a garden you are proud of, or know of a garden you would like to recommend for our garden tours, please contact:

           Manuela Neto, manuela.neto@sympatico.ca, 905-274-8938

           Lissa McCulloch, lissa.mcculloch@sympatico.ca, 905-823-1275