Tour a Collector’s Garden Filled With Artful Plant Combinations

Winding paths lead you through a series of gorgeous garden rooms

Chen Choo is a retired nuclear locomotive engineer with an artist ’s oculus and a passion for gather up plants . His garden in southerly Ontario is filled with a captivating mix of cold - dauntless perennials , tree , shrubs , and vines , coiffe in painterly , interconnected report .

Pathways yoke garden rooms together and lead visitant through the blank space . This video recording will help you imagine what it would be like to explore the garden in person , as I was inner to do while sprout pic for the February 2019 issue ofFine Gardening .

A plant collector ’s garden consort the risk of exposure of becoming too regimented or overcrowded , but this is where Chen ’s artistic sensibilities save the daytime . He has organized the quad around several “ sanctuaries , ” which he draw as small , informal garden elbow room with invisible and overlapping boundaries . As he acquires new plant , he continuously adjust and edits beds to showcase prized specimen and to give every plant the place and conditions it needs to thrive and front its best .

At the heart of the garden is a beautiful water garden and gazebo . Chen design the water feature to extract the notion of a tropical mountain flow in his place of birth , Borneo . hem in the H2O characteristic are garden organise around scheme color musical theme : the“Burning River ” is aflame with reds , oranges and golds , the “ Icy River ” sparkles with frigid White and coolheaded blues , and the “ Almost white-hot ” garden combines white flowers and foliage with people of colour that make white look well .

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