About The Gardener’s Daughter

Melissa Skinner is the daughter of acclaimed Toronto Gardener Dale Winstanley of Dale’s Gardening & Landscaping Inc. Melissa has been working alongside her father for 17 years. After Dale’s retirement in 2019 Melissa created The Gardener’s Daughter.

Melissa has a University Degree and College Diploma in Garden Design and is a certified Landscape Technician. She has worked with some of the worlds most influential Landscape Architects and has worked on some of the most sophisticated Gardens in the City of Toronto.

After her schooling was completed she started working in an acclaimed Landscape Architects office where she learned her love of creative landscape design. She took that knowledge and was a cast member on “Room to Grow” the television Show, she then moved over to her father’s company to work there for 17 years.

With the creation of The Gardener’s Daughter she is looking to continue her father’s legacy of building and maintaining Toronto’s elite Garden’s.

If you are looking for excellent experience in creating or maintaining the garden of your dreams, please click the link below and Melissa would be happy to come and meet you.