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Our Backyard.
Stouffville, Ontario
November 2004 - present

Looking towards the north in our backyard,
before we started gardening.

Looking north as Cal sweats it out with the tiller
starting to make the circular bed.

Our backyard before we moved in. A blank slate.
The passionate gardeners dream.
April 4, 2004.

We added trees and made a large circular bed to hold all our
plants from our other homes. We did this work even before we
moved in. The previous owners were so kind and accomodating.

This is how one half of our backyard is progressing
a year and a half after we moved in.
June 17, 2006.

We regraded the center of the circle, put down landscaping fabric, and four inches of pea gravel.

This garden bed in the winter.
January 27, 2007.

Circular garden with gazebo, sofa, two chairs,
and a coffee table.
Project complete. It looks majestic.

The circular garden in the fall.
Fall 2007

Here is the circular bed coming to life in the spring of 2006.
Those red tulips have the most beautiful scent I have ever
experienced in a tulip - it's very lemony and sweet. Intoxicating.
May 12, 2006.

Tulips in the circular bed.
May 12, 2006.

Snow-in-summer, zebra iris, with "Lime Rickey" and "Peach Melba" heuchera behind it and a peach-colored iris at the side.
June 17, 2006.

A beautiful group of ninebark diabolo, redtwig dogwood
and some dark orange daylilies.
August 2006.

Beebalm blooming.
July 2007

A dreamy daylily with beautiful blue flowers behind.
Summer 2007.

Before we bought the house,
there wasn't much more than grass
in the backyard. Easier to mow, but not very beautiful.
There's so much potential.

These European Birch will eventually
be part of larger perennial beds.

One of the birch looking poetic after a snowfall.
November 23, 2007.

A daffodil glowing in the sunshine.
May 12, 2006.

Purple tulips in a flowerbed outside my bedroom window.
May 12, 2006.

"Loop de Loop" iris in the same flowerbed
with peonies blooming behind it.
June 17, 2006.

Close-up of a peony "Maxima".
June 17, 2006.

Some tulips from our garden.
May 24, 2006.

The birch on the left and the crabapple in the foreground
were planted in the summer of 2004.

In the summer of 2005, I created a flowerbed
under the pine tree.
The birch tree is a part of that bed.
There are hostas, bleeding hearts, hellobores,
monkshood, and lily-of-the-valley.
Later I found out that the majority of those plants
are poisonous and I've planted them right next to the slide!
It does look beautiful though.

The backyard shimmering with snow.
December 2004.

The kids playing on the swing set in winter.
December 2006

The "pine tree bed" as I call it.
Summer 2006.

A close-up of a purple coneflower blooming
where there used to be daisies all summer.
August 2007.

A bouquet of daisies, lavender, and baby's breath
from our garden. 2007

A bouquet of flowers from our garden.
This rose is my favourite from our garden.
It has the most intoxicating smell.
2007

This is the best I could do to try to fit our whole backyard
into a photo. The circular bed is on the left.
Behind the large pine tree on the right
is our vegetable gardens.
June 17, 2006.

This is the whole backyard looking from the deck
in a south-west direction.
August 2006.

This is the northern end of our yard, looking west
from the deck. I hope to one day paint the shed the
same deep purple as our house doors with big
bright yellow sunflowers in front of it. In this picture,
you can see the old vegetable garden at the back
and the new one I'm building in the foreground.
Summer 2006.

We have a hammock on the deck near the back door.
The kids love to play on it.
I love to relax in it, eating an ice cream bar
and looking at my vegetable garden.

Hundreds of icicles hanging from the deck.
March 2, 2007.

The other half of our deck has a table and a climber for Verity.

A seating area on the deck
with fall trees in the background.
Fall 2007

A planter on our back deck.
Summer 2006

I made this bed around the deck in the spring of 2006.
It has a red Emperor Japanese Maple, cedar, lilacs,
roses, monkshood, tulips, and daffodils.

Honeysuckle vines being trained up the deck railing.
August 16, 2006.

A close-up of honeysuckle growing on our deck.
It blooms all summer.
August 2006.

Lilac blooming around the deck.
May 12, 2006.

Monkshood growing on the north side of our deck.
One of the joys of fall.
September 2007

Some pink roses and sweet allysum
growing around the deck.
August 2006.

A gorgeous rose with an unbelievably
heavenly scent. It's my favourite rose in my garden.
August 2006.

A pink impatient growing around the deck.
August 2006.

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