Kate Markham-Zantvoort

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Kate Markham-Zantvoort

Saanich

Project Year: 2018

Country: Canada

Zip Code: V8N 1Z2

I just love combining dwarf pine trees and grasses with bedrock outcrops. If a site is lucky enough to have beautiful big sheets of bedrock I like to accentuate the beauty of it not try to remove it.

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Kate Markham-Zantvoort

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The dwarf pine, creeping rosemary and woolly thyme will look great between the bedrock outcrops on this sunny property.

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Planting pockets amid the bedrock sheets. The low area will be the compacted gravel firepit terrace.

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Drought tolerant and deerproof planting in pockets in the bedrock outcrops. A nice covered patio (with built in heaters) to enjoy the garden from in wet weather.

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Accentuate the rugged beauty of bedrock by using a softer plant such as the carex right next to it along with a gnarly evergreen, in this case a screen of junipers.

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Another photo showing the importance of borrowed landscape. The property line is at the edge of the lawn.

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The property now has a nice lawn for children and deer to play on. The Japanese concept of 'shakkei' or borrowed landscape is used heavily here as the property line is actually at the edge of the lawn.

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The area behind the house before demo and rebuild.

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This area will become the firepit terrace, surrounded by deer proof planting and beautiful bedrock.

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