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Top: A hanging basket filled with magenta petunias is mirrored in colour and form by a large container underneath.


Left: A carefully planned bed borders the well behaved front lawn.


The casual garden of Lori Enns and Don Bradshaw


Story and photos by Dorothy Dobbie L


ori Enns used to be a full-time photographer so she has a well-trained eye that shows up in her tidy garden in the Laurier Heights area of Edmonton. The front yard is well behaved with a neat lawn border-


ing moisture-conserving mulch which surrounds three well-placed hawthorn trees and some carefully tended shrub and perennial beds. A hanging basket filled with magenta petunias is mirrored in colour and form by a large container underneath featuring more bright pink petunias that are set off by some crimson geraniums in a bold combination. But it works. More crimson shows up


34 • Early Spring 2016


in the flowers of nearby coral bells. Mass plantings, purposefully placed, are a hallmark of


this garden, both front and back. Sometimes low grow- ing masses of thyme or lysimachia or hens and chicks, other times, large healthy clumps of perennials such as echinacea, heuchera, or hemerocallis are punctuated by low growing shrubs such as barberry or dwarf mugo pine. It is design tempered by restraint. In the back yard Lori’s garden passion really begins


to manifest itself. Here, professionally laid paving stone pathways are complemented by strategically grown


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