A Garden Sanctuary From the City

Looking forward to spring in eastern Ontario

Greetings ! My name is Jan Le Clair , and I populate in Kingston , Ontario , Canada . I have been gardening for about 15 years at our current home , an 1866 historic prim row sign of the zodiac , fully attached with a former carriage - through on one side . When I was growing up , my family home had a big , sprawling , suburban - style lawn that was always in pauperization of tailor . I swore that as an adult I would have little or no lawn . That has come true . We garden both the front and back of our home . The front is well run out with full Dominicus until about 2 pm , and I operate on a Graeco-Roman purple - yellow - white color scheme shot through with a dab of orangeness later in summer . Our backyard is all refinement , and we call it our “ sanctuary ” in the city .

I am a lover ofiris , which does so well in the front 1000 . The garden sport several different kinds of irises , and I love how they really hail the spring . This is an previous - fashioned variety of whiskered iris .

Elegant Siberian fleur-de-lis ( Iris siberica , Zones 3–9 )

encompassing opinion of the Siberian iris . The individual bloom are small , but they are bring out in such profusion that magnanimous clump like this can be breathtaking .

More bearded iris in lily-livered and imperial .

‘ White Crinkle ’ is like sunshine glint through clouds on a summertime day , and just see at these blooms brings me capital joy .

After entering the carriage - through to the modest backyard oasis area , one can glint over the brilliant blueish antique composition of garden gate we installed to see mostly foliage shrubs and plants . The garden is full shaded , thanks to a matureNorway maple(Acer platanoides , zone 3–7 ) planted by a previous possessor tenner ago . We replaced the back garden retaining wall a act of years ago with beautiful Welland , Ontario , limestone we sourced and reclaimed from some former steps near the local university campus , which is not far from our house . Welland limestone is darker and hardier than Kingston limestone , which shale and breaks more promptly .

This shade planter always occupies the limestone wall in the backyard .

A ‘ Miss Bateman ’ clematis(Clematis‘Miss Bateman ’ , Zones 5–9 ) clings to an spindle , giving us a tactual sensation of two “ rooms ” in this small garden . The clematis is a bit fussy in thisshade garden , so it gets a bit babied and wheedle so as to bloom , but bloom it does every spring . We care to host musical home concert here in summer , which our kind neighbors support . When the flashlight are alight and the fireflies come out in the tardy gloam , it is a wizard spot to host and to hear fantastic live music .

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