Vancouver BC Study Weekend, the Daykin Garden

Just for fun (and to frustrate the hell out of me) today's photos loaded in reverse. If it had to happen (and evidently it does) this is kind of an interesting garden for it to happen with. Walking through this gate is how I started my tour, but instead of that, we're going to keep walking up the driveway, which means we're going to the left in this photo...

Following the hedge on the right.

Where we come to the front door and this terribly cool porch.

As you probably figured out from the title of the post, this garden was part of the Study Weekend event I attended last June in the Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) area. From our tour booklet: From the curb Rosie Daykin's home may appear to unassuming, but therein lies its beauty. The cookbook author and interior designer utilized the property to its fullest advantage by separating it into four distinct zones, allowing her to play with scale and texture in unique and interesting ways. With inspiration pulled from her various travels, most notable to the English countryside, Rosie's wild and whimsical garden is filled with surprises that are sure to delight.

Of course we don't actually go in the front door, but we keep walking under the carport (porte-cochère?) you saw in the second photo.

And come out overlooking the back garden. The grey "cages" are chicken coops.

We're descending into the garden now.

Down those stone steps.

Inside the greenhouse...

And outside.

Towering trees above it all.

I'm taking this photo standing on the patio you see in the 5th photo from the beginning, the first one in the back yard.

A better look at part of the chicken coop.

A couple of the tenants on a walkabout.

Once you pass the chicken coop area and go up a couple of steps you're in a side garden space with raised vegetable beds and lots of potted plants.

Don't these look delicious? I was the first person to walk through this garden on that Saturday morning, I hope those that came later resisted the temptation to snack.

Everything in this garden was so crisp and tidy, I felt like I was walking through a magazine spread.

Now I'm going up the stairs (we'll call it up, I mean I was actually going down into this space when I took this photo, but since we're going backwards through this garden in this post...up it is) to another level.

At the top now, looking down...

And into the front garden.

And this vignette is what you'd see coming out of the gate that started the post. 

If you want to see the garden the way I walked through it, now page back up through the post enjoying the photos in the order I intended them to post. On Wednesday we'll tour another Vancouver garden but we'll go the right way around then.

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