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Enjoy exclusive access to this trend-setting garden, which offers you wonderful mixed borders incorporating new plant introductions including some from New Zealand and Australia. Plantings inspired by the Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf surround a 1920’s patio.

A lush boulevard planting designed for year round interest surrounds this turn of the century Edwardian home tucked in on a street of other heritage homes. Throughout there is vibrant bloom and interplay of colour and foliage texture, which has been enhanced through a great use of grasses. Accenting these plantings are fences, trellises and arbours out of local red alder; concrete columns, planters and sculptures; pebble mosaics and water features.

All of the plantings and garden architecture were designed and created by the creative young woman who has created this beautiful garden which speaks to its history.

To view some pictures of this garden click here.

 

A Testimonial

From Martin Kovar
As a graduate of two Master of Landscape Architecture programs and a practicing residential garden designer in Canada, I was truly pleased with the high standard or guided tours offered by Joan Looy of Victorian Garden Tours. Having participated in several escorted visits to gardens in Europe, Joan surprised me with a customized itinerary of sites tailored to satisfy my individual interests, based on a telephone discussion Joan initiated in advance of our tour.

Paying careful attention to each garden location and exposure, Joan lined up our visits so as to show each site in the optimal light and time of day. Her intimate knowledge of Victoria gardens and access privileges to a vast array of sites, allowed me, an out of province visitor, to start my day experiencing the quiet wonder of treading on a grassy path shimmering with silver dew, hemmed by cushy mounds of textural perennials. Similarly, the study of shadow play and rich colours of pealing bark displayed by an aged rhododendron grouping, were offered in the afternoon.

Like a chef, Joan took me through the day serving the exact right dishes at the most appropriate times, with heavy emphasis on desert items. Delight yourself, and sample some of the sites Victorian Garden Tours gained access to over many years in business. Let Joan know about your taste preferences, and she will do her best to satisfy your appetite for the art of gardening.

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