Parterre Garden in Ottawa

A formal garden in the front yard

Today Bas Suharto is sharing a beautiful front garden with us .

I survive in Ottawa , Ontario ( Zone 5b ) , and today I ’m partake in delineation of my front garden . It is a parterre garden , 25 feet by 18 feet , face southwest .

The boxwood plants are the extra - unfearing varietyBuxus‘Mont Bruno’(Zones 4–9)from Quebec .

The hedge to the left hand , confront the neighbor laneway , isred barberry(Berberisthunbergii , Zones 4–8 ) .

This year the annuals are all in snowy . The plants facing the sidewalk are fresh alyssum(Lobularia maritima , annual ) .

This is the view from my bedroom window , in a photo withdraw in summer 2021 . The hydrangea(Hydrangea paniculata , Zones 3–9 ) in the kernel was still in snowy , and in the geometrical shapes inside the parterre are wax leaf begonias(Begoniasemperflorens , one-year ) . The cone - shape evergreen are Alberta dwarf spruce(Picea glauca‘Conica ’ , Zones 3–6 ) .

I build the garden in 2009 . Right after the construction of the retain wall was fetch up , I used my watering can to “ sop up ” the figure of the parquet circle on the soil , the soaked soil marking where the hedges would go .

after in 2009 , this is how it looked when the boxwoods and spruce were first plant . It take a few class for everything to grow in and create a good shape .

This is the smell from the front doorway , in a photo taken by my protagonist in summer 2017 . kidskin love to take the air around the garden .

This motion-picture show was taken in the autumn of 2019 . The canna lilies(Cannaindica , Zones 8–10 or as tender bulbs ) along the front house wall had grown very large , and the rose plants were not arise well because they did n’t get enough sun .

At the last of every fall I institute genus Myosotis or bury - me - not(Myosotissylvatica , Zones 3–8 , often grown as annuals ) to have risque fine flowers in former spring .

Another view of the draw a blank - me - not in spring .

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