“We always knew we wanted a garden and started doing little bits here and there,” she says. But they didn’t really have a focus until they held a garage sale in 1971 and a customer, Lindsay Gibson, handed Payne a card from the Dai-Ichi Koi and Japanese Garden Club of British Columbia. “We joined right away,” says Payne.
Enchanted with the idea of turning their yard into a Japanese-influenced garden, they began researching. “We thought it would take us about three years to put in the garden. In fact, it took 18,” she says. “We learned by reading lots of books, looking at other people’s gardens, applying the artistic bent within us and by trial and error.”
A rich tapestry of foliage with mere splashes of colour surrounds the Paynes’ rest house (azumaya)
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