Betsy’s Vancouver Garden

Nearly three decades of hard work pay off in this garden

Today we ’re in the garden with Betsy Bakker .

I would sleep with to partake in with you pictures of my garden that I have been working on for the past 27 class . I live on Vancouver Island and with our mild winters can grow things so well .

My husband and I have brought in every rock ourselves , spending our weekends out in the bush collecting them . He even made a crane for the back of our truck to make lifting them a little leisurely . We have try very severely to reuse items , such as the wood for thegazebo , which came from reprocess pallets long before it was democratic to reprocess them .

I have a rage forhostasandrhododendrons , with my collection getting larger every twelvemonth .

desire you enjoy the pictures .

All that hard work picking out and moving stones has clearly paid off in the class of this beautiful stonepatioand steps . A copper - go out tears beach ( Fagussylvatica‘Purple Fountain ’ , Zones 4–7 ) forms a natural archway over the top of the footprint . Numerous shrubs and lush Hosta fill the garden , while a tallhedgeencloses the space .

Akousa dogwood(Cornuskousa , Zones 5–8 ) is covered with star - work white blush , while below it a pinkish peony ( Paeoniahybrid , Zones 3–8 ) tumble graciously out over a stone wall .

Stepping stones manoeuver you through the lush lawn , while lily ( Liliumhybrid , Asiatic radical , Zones 4–8 ) flower in delicate pinkish - and - Edward Douglas White Jr. under the bird bird feeder .

A lush , perfect lawn makes a perfect counterpoint to the planted bed , Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and bush .

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