A wide view of the front yard, with the old crab apple in the middle of it all, like an old man who knows this garden.
Beautiful Gardens Maggie and Julian sale Guelph, ontario story and photos by shauna dobbie The moss covered branches of the old crab apple tree. 58 • 2020
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ost garden stories could start out: “The garden was a blank slate when the couple moved in twenty years ago.” This isn’t one of those stories. When Maggie and Julian Sale bought their house in Guelph 10 years ago, the seller asked: “Do you like to garden?” Maggie said she’d like to do more of it. More is what she got with this beautiful property. She’d done some gardening in the past. At the house in Toronto, where they raised their three kids, she maintained the garden. They lived in Montreal for a period, where she kept a rose garden looking good. In their last house, a townhouse they bought in Toronto, she developed a garden for the first time on the postage stamp lot. ‘Coming here to this bigger garden—and having an interest localgardener.net
