John Stevenson and his wife, Kate, sought to revitalize the garden, not with labour-intensive botanical pyrotechnics but with easy-care perennials and shrubs. (Among these, roses, a favourite of their eight-year-old daughter, Willa, were a must.) However, the couple was more than a little perplexed when it came time to actually break ground.
“We limped through having a garden and not knowing what we were doing for two years,”Stevenson recalls. As it turned out, the hardscaping proved easier to install than the living matter. Rotted wood decking underneath a small seating area to the left of the front door was replaced with stone, complementing an existing walkway and a wall that mimics the stonework of the house. For help with a planting scheme, the couple heeded the advice of a family friend and turned to garden designer Marion Moore of Toronto-based landscape design firm Plantings.
*(Image: Set against a shapely evergreen, the gleaming blooms and blade-like leaves of Tulipa ‘Dordogne’ create a study in contrasts.)*
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