Through the garden door

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After less than a year due to VV, the annual Kingard Garden Visit resumed on August 8 this year.

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During the visit, eight beautiful gardens were observed throughout Kindergarten.

The first stop was at 4 Glencoi St., Jim Moore and Sandy Robinson.

“We bought the property at the end of 2012 and moved here from Toronto in late 2014,” he said. The front yard was rebuilt in August 2020, replacing the landscaping they had installed thirty-five years ago.

Homeowners have been renovating the backyard for the past four years. It shows both bushes and annual characteristics, both for the sun and for the sun.

“One of our goals is to fall from the beginning of spring to the end, and to have a wide range of textures, colors, and heights,” he said. It will continue to be a source of learning experience and great joy.

The second stop was at the home of Linda Farrell and Hugh Maculok at 19 Inverness St. , Was on S.

“My garden is a playground,” he wrote. “It gives me peace and happiness.”

The front garden was professionally renovated 10 years ago. All shrubs and trees are the same, but they have changed many plants. It is perfectly standard with boxwood sidewalks.

The sidewalks and backyards get a lot of shade so the fans and hosts find their home there, and they are stuck in both shade and sun-loving eternity.

“I like a canned garden, so I will fill it with empty space,” he said. “Birds love to go back to the forest and enjoy our backyard and find shelter in the trees and cedar fences, feed and bathe in the nursery and drink in the birdhouse.

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The third stop was at 875 McDonald’s Avenue, Sandy and Duncan Elston.

Elston owned the property for seven years. They spent the first five years cultivating the borrowed hills and eventually lost to new neighbors. The property was previously on a visit to the garden in 2015.

After losing their last hill to new neighbors, they found themselves with a new palette in the garden.

“A garden in a small space can have many challenges and limitations,” he said. With a little imagination and a lot of hard work, we turned this place into a small bay.

One of the most important features is the beautiful outdoor dining area. Complete with fans, lights and curtains. It is surrounded by greenery and the sound of water. “When you enter this place, you are invited to sit down and relax,” they said.

The flagstone courtyard in front of the house offers a view of the lake and the front gardens. Bathing in hot and cold water outside the house is a great way to wash that beach sand that follows us home.

“Less gardens, and more free time. I have made a remarkable adjustment. ”

The fourth stop was at the house of Alison and Robert Wet, who had been transformed into a solid pad a few weeks ago in an article in their beautiful temple.

Two houses at Park St., Pep Lorenzen and Grace and Peter Morris, continued on the tour.

“21 years ago, my ex-husband had a clear love of spruce trees,” says Pep Lorenzen. “We removed the 35s the first summer and created flower beds instead, probably too many plants. I became a member of the horticultural community and learned a lot about the world of unique plants and flowers and felt at least one important thing for each of them.

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“I love all aspects of gardening so it can be addictive,” Peps continued. In the spring, Daffodel and Tulip show their happy faces, and then other spring plans appear. In June, a variety of beautiful plants, roses follow. One was bought like a bush and now it has reached the window of the second floor, I can’t cut it, not in the right place, but happy there.

The property features many hosts, many of which are fond memories from friends’ gardens that are not in the area. At the end of the year, a variety of flowers appear, including the special Stella de Oron, which blooms every summer. The annual hibiscus, in July-August, will be tall with red flowers and the beautiful pink of Sharon.

Shade gardens have many ferns and other shade-loving plants, and the ground cover is surrounded by 17 spruce trees.

They have a more relaxed approach to gardening on Morris’ property.

“All our gardens are relaxed. I tried to create a simple green space with little care. ” We have been gardening here for 28 years, and the garden will continue to grow and change.

The front of their house is usually a little geranium. As you walk along the gravel road through the cedar fence, the beds are mostly filled with the creations of the hosts, Helbores and my glass flowers.

The backyard is often shaded by pine trees, but gardening is considered a challenge. The beds under the trees are hostess and shade loving forever, and lots of glass flowers.

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He concludes: “I will give you some vegetables, including two ‘glass windows’ that do not need to be repaired.”

The last two properties were on Bruce Beach Road in Sus and Ian Telford and Gill and Peter Norton Homes.

“Like most gardens, our work is in progress,” says Telford.

Five large ash trees have been lost this year due to ash borer.

Since moving here 21 years ago, they have planted many trees, shrubs, and shrubs and will always find something new to do. This year they will plant seven more hellebores next year. There are many different hosts, from giant to blue mouse ears and many beautiful Japanese maps. “Daphne, if you have never seen an evergreen shrub, look at it, it blooms until it snows and it smells so good,” they said. Visitors were asked to check the exact number of years they were not sure.

When Norton’s property was acquired in 1991, the first cottage since 1935 was surrounded by cedar trees, mixed wood, and sand.

After the present house was built in 2000, and several cubic meters of soil was added, the gardens were transformed into their present form.

The property has three main areas: L: When you enter the Brooke Beach Ard Garden, the spring garden on the left, although not much grown in August, is covered in trillions and spring flowers in April and May. On the driveway on the left, there is a grassy area with a redwood tree and a heavy mature, low maintenance bed with Anabel Hydrangeas and myrrh.

The garden opens in front of the house, with a multi-year flower bed on the right and a more shaded bed on the left, than the hostess and the ferns.

There are gardeners all year round. The lake is not planted as a garden but has been replaced by natural duna plants.

The hikers are invited to visit Kinkard Peace Laboratory, Butterfly Garden and Community Garden at Gides Park.