Cambridge Garden 3

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Step 2:  The fence is now complete surrounding the garden, and will silver over the course of the winter.  The next phases will occur in the spring: the planting of a birch grove and fruit trees, wild grasses, planters for the kitchen garden, and a deck with a covered dining pavilion.

Thank you Dan from AMS Renovations for building the fence.

Cambridge Garden 2

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Step one is complete for the Cambridge House garden work - the patterned permeable pavers create an almost medieval pattern, and have been planted with creeping thyme and sweet woodruff seeds that will grow in the spring to provide fragrance when crushed underfoot.  Wild flowers and grasses are to be planted alongside to create a dynamic, rough border that can provide cuttings for the kitchen table.  Step 2 to follow very shortly - the cedar fence around the property, to step down the hill to the bottom of the garden.

Cambridge Garden 1

A garden is to be designed for a little house in Cambridge Ontario. The garden is being composed as a series of rooms, each mysterious to the other, with graduated fragrances, glimpses, moments. It is important to the owner to experience a sense of adventure within the garden. The garden must anticipate a small writer's cabin, kitchen garden, places to entertain, and of course a generous table for meals al fresco. The garden falls down a hill toward the end; we will need to see whether a small grove of birch trees would thrive there. Or perhaps a tiny orchard.