LANDSCAPE

Our landscape is at its best in July.  Here are a few photos:
This first is a glimpse of the Rose Mallow blooming profusely outside the solar space window.  The solar space is an area at ground level in the front which was formerly open space beneath a balcony.  We enclosed it with clear glass windows and use it two ways: to overwinter plants where they will be as cool as possible without freezing and as a wonderful place to sit and read on summer afternoons and evenings.

This little fountain is right outside the solar space and we like to hear the water splashing as we relax and read.

In between the house and the road is our front landscape, something Jim just loves to look at.  No wonder he never wants to leave this place!  Now we are turned away from the house, looking toward the road.

This is a little romantic bench along a gravel path.  To the left you can see a small part of one of his favourite trees: a weeping birch.

Here we are looking down the same path toward the house but much closer to the road.

This tall columnar blue spruce is just south of the shelter belt at the north end of the landscape.

This is one of the three Burr Oak trees on the north end of the front yard.  The other two are behind this one.  Burr Oak is the only oak that will grow in the area.

And this is a beautiful Linden tree near the house.  Linden trees have very straight trunks and seem to have flowers at the ends of the leaf clusters in summer.  This tree split in two and we bolted it back together through the trunk.  It has now grown over the split and is growing around the bolts and the plates that hold it together.

Behind it, almost like a feather crown is the top of a Brandon Elm that towers over the garage and house.  Last year we could hear a branch scraping over the roof in windy weather.  Our helper, Craig, climbed the tree with a chain saw and cut off the offending branch.

This was just a little jaunt through the landscape.  Hope you enjoyed it!