A vine covered arbour leads to what used to be the vegetable garden and is now a tranquil haven complete with pond and running water.


Happy bergenia with extra large and shiny leaves thanks to Roger's soil amendments.


Roger and Karen, with the family dog horn- ing in on the photo inside the porch.


Powder puff asters.


by a park, there was a globe cedar and a single daffodil. It had been there so long and was so deeply embedded that Roger never did find the bulb no matter how far down he dug. Karen says Roger is the gardener. Roger says, it’s both of


them, but he admits that he does most of the design while Karen makes suggestions for improvements. They are used to working together – they’ve done so in the store for over 30 years and they’ve learned to respect each other’s areas of expertise. They both love the garden and even had a large window


installed in the dining room so they could see it during dinner. Among the view is cedar, a group of cedar planters overflowing with flowers and at the base of the planters, asparagus fern softens the texture of the stone walkway beside it.


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The Watsons love the variety and colour of annuals mixed with perennials.


A border edging one side of the front lawn blazes with


colour: scarlet geraniums and pink impatiens set off the big shiny leaves of bergenia, which has already shed its spring blossoms. The annuals carry the colour burden for the still-to-come perennials: daylilies, lilies and an unusual variety of ligularia. In another bed, along the front of the house, marigolds


mingle with phlox and daylilies, while clematis climbs trel- lised walls behind a healthy clump of monarda (bee balm). Pink impatiens ring a birch tree in still another part of the lawn. Shaded by Engelmann’s ivy creeping up the wall is a thick planting of pink impatiens, which fills in the space along the side of the house beside the sidewalk. The Watsons have an eclectic taste in flowers, so old


favourites such as Sweet William show up beside lovely blue balloon flowers, old-fashioned powder puff mums,


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