This garden story begins in 1984, when a young couple bought a Cape Cod-style home in central Toronto on a veritable bowling alley of a lot. Despite its dimensions—35 by 270 feet—the secluded property was ideal, hidden from neighbouring houses thanks to towering trees on the adjacent lots. “You can look out the back and feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere,” says the owner. But one feature in the backyard was a source of both frustration and pleasure: an unsightly vinyl-lined pool. “It had been placed in the middle of the property with narrow walkways on either side,” says the owner. “And it was quite close to the house, limiting the space for eating and lounging.”
**The new pool area in this Toronto garden is backed by a wall of Virginia creeper punctuated with colourful foxgloves and delicate maiden grasses underplanted with chartreuse bellflowers. The tinted gunite gives the pool water a natural look.**
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