This back garden provides for many opportunities for healthy family outdoor living, focused around the swimming pool, and spreading into open lawn areas for young children.

The garden, an extension of the newly re-furbished 1880's Victorian home, and new Carriage House, reflects the new modern lines and proportions of its interior renovation. The garden integrates with the home through a generous composite deck and western red cedar arbour, providing an extended living and dining area at the interior finished floor elevation.

The linear pool, finished in a slate gunite, provides a shallow in-water terrace for children and generous steps to enter. Laminar jets provide an enticing sound of water, especially at night when highlighted with fiber optic lighting. The laminar jets originate from stone faced cubes of varying sizes, which also provide play value for children.

The large adjoining flagstone sitting terrace links both the Carriage House and wooden deck with the pool, and leads into the level open lawn area. The planting strategy includes liner trees superimposed upon shrubs with sculptural horizontal branching, maximizing the interest from the modest available planting areas. The remaining planting beds accommodate a wide variety of flowering shrubs, ornamental grasses, perennials and ground covers, providing year-round interest.

all plants were selected for their multiple interest of seasonal colour and complimentary textures.