Public Walk – Annual Aggie’s Wildflower Walk

Date: May 10, 2026 at 13:00
Meeting Location: Lambton House

Join us on Sunday, May 10 at 1:00 pm for a 3-hour, 3 km circular heritage and wildflowers walk.

Leader: Madeleine McDowell

Co-Leader: Lance Gleich

Location: Humber Valley, (Magwood Park)

Description: We start at Lambton House with a talk about Agnes and her wildflower illustrations from 1868. Then walk through the valley, on sidewalks, along the ravine, across St. Mark’s Road, and into the woods, where we will see Agnes’ trilliums emerging at the river and following the pedestrian trail by the Humber back to Lambton House for tea and time in the TFN Wildflower Specimen Garden there.

Details: A 3-hour, 3 km circular heritage and wildflowers walk on mostly unpaved, even surfaces with some gentle slopes. Some stairs.

Meeting Spot: Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas St

Getting There: # 55 Warren Park bus from Jane Station stops at the door

Accessibility: The path through the woods is navigable; with five steps at St. Mark’s Hill, the leader will be using a wheelchair.

Washrooms: At the beginning and end

Other Information: There is a display about Agnes Moodie Fitzgibbon, including an 1868 copy of her book, which is the basis for both the Walk and the Garden at Lambton House. The importance of 19th-Century Women Botanists.

This walk is only one of more than 140 that TFN will host this year alone! TFN members enjoy a complete listing of walks in our newsletter. Not a member? Learn more about the benefits of membership now!

Please tag any photos you take on this walk with #TFNWalk so that we can all live vicariously through your lens.

Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.