Every photo is taken in our garden. Enjoy!
Our property when we first bought it! Dry, lifeless soil and hardly any birds or insects to be found. We knew there was potential.
The main entrance to our open grass area which is called "The Green". We wanted to make a statement and went for this curving step look. Notice how the path narrows to capture your attention.
Bumble bee on a self sown Lupin (Lupinus)
Wild finch just after feeding from inside the homemade birdhouse during winter.
Looking down into a Pink Tulip with a white throat.
Foxglove (Digitalis) growing through an old metal wheel rim
A small wild parrot (Green Rosella) stripping the fronds off of a Man Fern (Dicksonia Antarctica) to eat in winter.
A tiny spider on a Viburnum Tree flower. Common names include Snow Ball Tree and Guilded Rose.
Tulips are amazing flowers
An old wooden wagon positioned in a garden bed adds interest. Pink Lupins in the background.
Grape Hyacinth about to get a visitor
Anemonie flowers
Erigeron Daisy (Pink Jewel)
Double daffodil
Close up of a Heuchara variety called Gold Rush
Osteospernum flower
Yellow Granny's Bonnet (Aquilegia). All of our Granny's Bonnets come from an old fertile variety that has cross-pollinated over the years. We now naturally have a huge variety of colours and flower shapes.
Anemone Flower
Alyssum flower
Heuchera
The little girl garden ornament is framed by seaside daisies to either side. An Itoh Peony (Julia Rose) is in bloom above.
A view looking out from our Shady Garden area.
Flowering Cherry (a variety called Ukon) flowering beautifully above a barrel with red and purple tulips
Vibrant coloured mountain phlox (Phlox Subulata)
A view from our lawn area called "The Green"
Crab Apple (Malus Ioensis) on the left
Chinese Lantern Flower (Abutilons)
Clematis Flower
Bearded Iris
A spider web revealed by the evening light.
Hanging baskets of petunias add colour along our entrance driveway. They offer a nice contrast to the stacked firewood behind.
You can add formality to your garden as we have here by creating a circular bed around a water fountain.
The metal arbour draws your eye as you start to walk along this winding path. Three hanging pots on the arbour add a splash of colour at head height.
Hanging baskets from the awning over a window makes it feel like the garden is even closer to the house.
Metal gates with pot holders frame an entrance way to our house. The two hanging baskets draw your eye from the baskets in the gates.