Return to a Toronto garden
Yesterday we got to visit Patrick and Dorothy Smyth ’s garden on a corner lot in the concrete hobo camp of Toronto , Canada , and today we ’re back for more !
Patrick and Dorothy have divide up their small , urban draw into many dissimilar spaces and filled them with beautiful plant to make a garden that finger worlds away from the urban landscape painting around them .
It ’s spring in the garden , with color from tulip ( Tulipahybrids , Zones 3–8 ) , Narcissus pseudonarcissus ( Narcissushybrids , Zones 3–8 , look on variety show ) , and that soft spring green of unexampled leaves force out from perennials , trees , and bush .
A sheet ofmoss phlox(Phloxsubulata , Zones 3–9 ) in lavender provides a big fusillade of fountain colour , with the magenta blooms of a redbud tree ( Cerciscanadensis , Zones 4–8 ) in the screen background .
A clump of empurpled iris ( Irishybrid , bearded group , Zones 3–9 ) as seen through a physique of other shrubs . Dense planting that can obliterate and unwrap the gardens beyond them can make asmall spacefeel much big .
Clouds of lavender ( Lavandulaspecies or hybrid , zone 5–8 ) look beautiful , and you bed they smell out even better in someone !
Variegated miscanthus grass ( Miscanthussinensis‘Zebrinus ’ , Zones 5–9 ) has yellow patches on the leaves , which recall the yellow-bellied blooms of theSt . John ’s wort(Hypericumsp . , Zones 5–9 ) .
There is so much to see in this picture , from the disgraceful - eyed Susans ( Rudbeckiafulgida , Zones 4–9 ) in the foreground to the contrasting color foliation in the background signal , to the fountain , bench , and gravel walk in between . These are gardener who know how to layer plants and details to create a rich experience everywhere .
A unagitated garden moment , with Buddha backed by a rampart overcompensate with Boston ivy ( Parthenocissustricuspidata , Zones 4–8 ) .
In this former leaping view of the Buddha carving , the Boston ivy is now bare of leaf . A male redbird visits the water feature .
Black - eyed Susans and purple coneflowers ( Echinaceapurpurea , Zones 3–8 ) are in the height of their summer display .
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