Rear:
The shady Toronto rear garden accommodates a family of six with play and hang out. The pinwheel plan divides the large space into four smaller spaces, each flanking the central large raised planting bed with a flowering dogwood as it’s ornamental focal point. Movement around the central planter and onto the grassy lawn is via a multi-level deck to the east, and through a meandering woodland garden to the west. The two distinct sides of the rear garden are distinguished through fencing: one with a horizontal character and one with a vertical. The fences are punctuated by copper box niches where found objects can be displayed.

Front:
A dramatic sweep of spring bulbs changing to summer ornamental grasses in this sunny front garden provides a buffer to the street. The grasses, contained by a weathered steel box, form the foreground for the backdrop of a ornamental flowering yellow magnolia on the grass terrace behind. A decorative in-ground strip of pea-gravel contains copper runway lights that wash the surface of the two coloured concrete paths to the main entry porch.