2009 Garden Tour - May 27, 2009

Thanks to Angela Snowdon for these photos.

OHS Garden Tour

Wednesday, May 27th 2009, 5 pm - 8 pm

Lisa Coy's garden

Just four years ago this large, sunny front garden was a wasteland facing a busy street. A prolific pear tree is all that remains of the original planting but now, creeping phlox, dianthus, cotoneaster, and lavender spill over a low stone retaining wall. A bridal wreath spirea blooms beneath the pear tree. The driveway is lined with aquilegia; tall grasses punctuate the beds. Tulips, daffodils, and alliums make for an early and late spring show. An unusual dwarf fothergilla, a rhododendron, a young serviceberry, a showy deutzia, and a young mock orange provide woody interest.

Annette and Dean Frank's garden

Situated on a small corner lot in Lindenlea, Canada's first planned community designed after World War I by Thomas Adams, a renowned British designer of "Garden" communities (the harmonious architecture alone is worth a visit), this garden overflows with sun perennials, heathers, grasses, lowgrowing evergreens, ferns, and small trees in a series of islands and small beds outlined with rocks. Notable plants are small weeping and flowering trees, rhododendrons, azaleas, edelweiss, and hydrangeas.

Claire-Anne Lalonde's garden

A small sunny front yard with new boulevard plantings offers late-flowering daffodils, magnificent irises, and elegant peonies and is crowned with a flowering crab apple. A winding stone path in the back garden circles a wide variety of shade plants. Many artistic touches adorn the fence and paths.