A Water Garden of Wonder

Niagara seems to be home to some wonderful homes, and this is a special one with a water garden outside the living room window that is on display all year. We were on a garden tour recently (July 2013), and had a great experience at the garden of Terri and Wayne Rubel.  

The garden has been featured in magazines and blogs - Wayne's creative water garden feature is the source of the curiosity.  He has set  a vase filled with water upside-down vase above the pond water line. When he puts some fish food in the vase, the fish swim 'up' to get it.   Here's the wonderful combination of water feature and special feature. 

Roses Galore in Niagara

Bakker's grows a lot of nursery stock in the Niagara region and particularly in St. Catharines.   The Third Street pop-up nursery had Bakker rose bushes for $10 a few weeks ago, so I have four new roses.

They have a splendid show on 5th Street where my brother, Brian Bergman's Lilycrest Garden hybridizing field is.

Here's the show a week ago - a little like Holland and those rows of tulips...

St. Catharines Gardens on Tour 2013

The St. Catharines Horticultural Society had its Garden Tour this past Sunday, July 7th 2013.  I had the privilege of photographing the 8 gardens prior to the tour.  It was wonderful to meet the gardeners and to experience their gardens.  Then I also got to go on the tour on Sunday and have the garden tour experience.

Garden tours are wonderful when there is a thoughtful selection of gardens - each distinctive and all are different, so the experience is inviting and inspiring - this is what made the St. Catharines tour an achievement. 

Congratulations to the St. Catharines Horticultural Society for making a difference to gardeners and appreciators.

Here's the Summary with 2 images from each garden.

And here's the Society's website: http://www.gardenontario.org/site.php/stcatherhs