2006 OHS Garden Tours: Nathalie Chaly's Garden August 31, 2006

Thanks to Angela Snowdon for these pictures and to Nathalie Chaly for opening her garden to OHS members.

"Garden-Through-the-Seasons" Tour - August 31

One of the biggest challenges of garden-making is to keep the garden interesting throughout the growing season. So, this year we’ve organized tours of a garden where succession planting has been a preoccupation of its owner, Nathalie Chaly, from the beginning. The garden will be open four times during the season, highlighting the evolution of flowers and foliage in the borders over time.

The one-year-old front garden (designed by Joanie Flynt) was planned with low maintenance and long-lasting interest as absolute priorities. The back garden has been worked for about 12 years. Though not large, it is fairly complex in design, featuring both shady and sunny borders, and is packed with plants, many of them uncommon. At the side of the house is a small vegetable garden, a container garden of annuals and tender perennials, and a pond-in-a-pot.

(For a taste of how the garden looked during the 2003 OHS garden tour, please see http://www.ottawahort.org/tournathalie1.htm)

See the June 8, July 20 and the October 5 tour pictures of Nathalie's garden

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The front garden displays a rhapsody of colour.

Grasses create a canopy for low-growing perennials

The side garden changing colour. Compare this with the July 20 tour picturesJuly 20 tour

No matter the time of year, still lush and lovely to look at.

Looking from sun up to a semi-shade area.

Japanese yellow waxbells Kiningeshoma palmata