Nasturtiums hide a golfer.


Ligularia of an unknown variety.


a flower garden and a place to “smell the roses”. A bench flanks a large clump of blue aconitum. You can sit here on a tranquil summer morning and listen to the sound of water flowing from a pink pump into a brick-walled pond. It is filled with lily pads, the margins supporting tall reeds and other water plants. This is Winnipeg so hard clay underlays everything in the


garden. But Roger has spent years amending the soil with peat moss and coarse sand. His mix is one part sand to four parts peat. He adds about an inch of this mixture to the beds and then digs it in. The success of this method shows in the happy way the plants grow and the rich darkness of the soil. For both Roger and Karen, the garden is their Zen place. “It’s the best kind of therapy there is,” he says. v


Echinacea.


The front of the house is bordered by a mixed perennials and annuals bed. Clematis climbs the trellises.


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