Wayne inserted trellises at right angles to the house to break up the space and add depth. The quilting garden


offers us comfort and gives us pleasure. You start with scraps of fabric and an idea. Slowly, through work and dedica- tion, a stunning piece of art is created. So it is too with gardening. The yard was a field of dandelions


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when Linda Hurd first purchased her home in the fall of 1987. A lifelong


26 • Beautiful Gardens 2014 uilting, much like garden-


ing, is about creating a thing of beauty; something which


gardener, Linda began adding gardens the following spring. She broke two pitchforks digging out the first flower bed, which today is just one of the many gardens forming a quilt of colour and stunning settings surrounding her home. Year by year Linda worked away on


her growing gardens, on weekends and after work. Nine years later she met Wayne Kollinger at the Calgary branch


of the Volksmarch walking club. Since then their love and the gardens have grown; creating an apropos backdrop for their wedding in the summer of 1997. "The first area we worked on togeth-


er was the nine to 10 feet between our house and our neighbour's, once we did that we saw that the space actually looked bigger," explains Wayne. "The following year we worked on the hill


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