Alison Garwood Jones

Woof!

Originally published in June 2010 in Blog

The front hallway of the house I grew up in was a grotto of potted plants and hanging baskets placed in and amongst a collection of modern art made from highly polished cast steel. A floating staircase linking the hallway to a second level cut through the middle of this exhibition of vines and metal [...]

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Paradise found

Originally published in June 2009 in Canadian Gardening

A northern climate hasn’t stopped one Montréal couple from creating a “tropical” hideaway —minus the dependence on water Eight years ago, when Julie Jonas and Danny Roberge moved from bustling downtown Montréal to Beaconsfield, Quebec, a tranquil West Island community 20 minutes from the city, their combined gardening experience was zip. But the bugs seemed [...]

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