2008 Garden Tour - June 5, 2008

Thanks to Angela Snowdon for these photos.

OHS Garden Tour

- Thursday, June 5th, 5 pm - 8 pm

Josie Pazdzior

This city garden contains quite a variety of perennials, including some unusual selections, in the sunny front yard and the shady side and back garden areas. Dwarf conifers, shrubs, and trees such as the tamarisk, ginkgo, and columnar oak provide structure and winter beauty. Troughs and annual containers add colour and interest.

Lélia and Arthur Bousquet

This is an all-season garden, mixing the old (peonies and iris dating from circa 1915) and the new. Blessed with a southern exposure, it favours roses, cornflower, lilies, lavender, allium gigantum, and chrysanthemums, to name but a few. The western part is a shade garden with a flowering crab apple tree as a focal point, with hostas, ferns, red, white, and pink astilbes, and double impatients nearby. On the eastern part of the front garden the Bosquets are very proud of a varied selection of anemones, sedum, rudbeckia, and azaleas.

Rob and Laura Brandon

The Brandons’ garden shows great diversity: a shade area with woodland plants (wild ginger, ephemerals, dog-tooth violets, and hepatica); a sunny sand garden for low grasses; a raised fish pond with water lilies and boggy area for primula; a back garden for clematis, peony rockii, and a six-year-old daphne “Brigg’s Moonlight”, grown from seed; a sunny front garden with several David Austin roses. For structure they have planted some interesting shrubs: a 10-year-old rhododendron, a white "Northern Lights' azalea, an acer griseum, two unusual columnar taxus (Anglo/Japanese yew) "Maureen', and a Cornus "Midwinter Fire".