Hot pink, red and yellow rhododendrons and azaleas and regal purple irises put on a flamboyant spring show in this one-acre garden just outside Victoria. In summer, the subtler reds, greens and blues of trees and conifers come into focus, followed by an explosion of gold and crimson in autumn, especially from the Japanese maples. Winter sees the “bones” of the garden—the stonework and wooden structures—exposed more clearly, along with the beguiling forms of evergreens and neatly clipped shrubs. As Marjorie Payne says, this Japanese-style garden that she and her husband Ken have been designing, building and tending for more than 30 years is truly “a garden for all seasons.”
**A Japanese-style bridge crosses a dry stream. **
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