Garden Visits

Arches, pergolas and tunnels create exciting transitions in a garden, inviting you to step into an opening that promises to transport you to a new space and new experience. These attractive, structural features also serve other functions. They get you to lift your head and look up, always a good thing to get visitors to do. Lifting the head and...

Green-on-green is a style of planting that aims to create an elegant landscape by putting together a variety of plants with different shades and textures of green leaves. An example would be a low boxwood hedge in front of rhododendrons or a row of blue-green hostas in front of a hedge of Japanese holly, skimmia or sarcococca with a neatly...

I have been to the Keukenhof garden in Lisse outside Amsterdam a couple of times. The first time was in early April when the giant blocks of colour created by mass plantings of tulips and daffodils, mascari and hyacinths were at their peak. The second time was in May, just before I headed over to London for the Chelsea Flower...

I remember the first time I met Agnes Mendoza. It was back in 2004. I was driving west along McGill in East Vancouver when I spotted this garden at the corner of Slocan. I had noticed it once before but this time it had grown considerably. I stopped and went and knocked on the door of the house and Agnes...