Old-fashioned Crescentwood beauty


By Dorothy Dobbie S


haaron Weinstein loves the old- fashioned flowers. Her Cres- centwood garden overflows with


cosmos and zinnias, roses and impa- tiens, geraniums and astrantia. She adores hollyhocks and was thrilled with her delphiniums this year. “I’m not a fussy gardener,” she says.


She prefers to let things be – like when the lovely magenta morning glory just appeared or the hollyhock took it in mind to pop up in the centre of the rose garden instead of near the deck. Somehow, these accidental, spontane- ous occurrences delight her. So do the lemon-lime curves of the pretty cobea vine flower growing over the iron trel- lis along with the roses and ‘Jackmanii’ clematis. She doesn’t toil in the garden.


Instead she lingers and caresses the flowers, pinching here and there for their own good, but touching them with tenderness. Shaaron says it’s a maintenance-free garden. That’s why there are banks of perennials in the sunny spots, carefully chosen and planted for the effect each will create alongside the others. There is no dirt showing – that keeps the weeds down. In spite of what she says, the garden


is not entirely labour-free. In the front yard, her white garden includes masses of white impatiens that glow in the shade under the giant elms that she and


Shaaron Weinstein tends to her colourful ‘old-fashioned’ backyard garden.


White impatiens glow in the sunlight under the massive elms. localgardener.net


An elegant formal look is achieved by mixing white florals. Beautiful Gardens 2014 • 13


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