Built with love


A lot of hard labour went into the construction of the garden. Bert also built the raised gardens for Reina to continue the family thread of gardening that ties the family’s generations together.


A view of the pond with the Centre Court in the background.


traditional confiture, a kind of thin relish of small, sweet, yellow tomatoes mixed with cloves and sugar. “I always think of my grandmother when I’m making this,” says Reina. She makes fresh pesto with the basil


crop and recommends freezing the batch in ice cube trays, later putting the frozen cubes into indivual freezer bags, ready to go whenever needed. A couple of years ago, Bert and


Reina started a small container garden to deal with a shady spot at the side of the house. This was great fun, offer- ing a new dimension to the gardening experience: the soil is different, you are gardening at a higher elevation – and this year they expanded the number of containers they plant. “See those three at the side of the


house,” says Bert contradicting what he said about not doing any designing. “One of those is mine. I was looking through Ontario Gardener and I saw an article about designing containers so I tried to copy one.” You can sense just a little competitive edge there. He did a very good job, too. In spite of both being retired, the


Ruests have very busy lives. One of Bert’s duties is to take care of his daughter Julie’s property as well as his own. Julie is a single mom with a 10-year-old girl, Mariève. Another daughter, Mandy, has taken


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