The resident Eastern Screech owl peeks out from the nesting box Alex built her when she made the garden her home.


Lake, Ontario. They rescued rocks


during many trips to the United States. Once Judy brought a rock home on a flight from New Mexico! There is one great centrepiece rock


from a cemetery in Toronto that they had hauled in on a flatbed. The truck just dropped it off and left. Nothing daunted, Alex and Judy used brain over brawn to move this several-thousand- pound behemoth to a place in front of their living room window where they could see it. “We used a dolly and a come-along (basically a block and tackle) to move it across the driveway, across the lawn and then to the front of the house,” says Judy. Today it stands on a bed of river stones – nothing would grow there anyway, except a lone eche


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Top: Heather stains the ground pink.


Centre: a sea of Scilla.


Left: the parabolic petals of a crocus capture a moth in their warmth and light. At the heart of this flower, it can be 10 degrees C warmer than the outside air.


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