Tag: Plantings

Inspiration for Shade Plantings from Reford Gardens

When Elsie Reford set out to create a yard at her summer season season residence north of Montreal, she began in a wooded house. A meandering stream gave her a picturesque place to start and the conifer forest that surrounded it gave her the right backdrop.  Though this house was to…

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A Go to to Duff & Donna’s Yard in June

Behind the house, there is a small plateau of land with a deck after which the  property rolls down in a fragile incline to a lake.  My friendship with Donna Evers began years up to now when she despatched me an invitation to come back again and {{photograph}} her yard.…

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