Looking for beautiful gardens

BC, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, send us your gardens!

Pictures of Canadian gardens by (clockwise): Jen Grad; Jean Rutherford; Twyla Bartel; Lois Maclennan; and Nicole Deibert.

Coming up next is our winter issue of Beautiful Gardens. In the past, it has been all gardens from cover to cover, with gorgeous photos and stimulating stories about the people who’ve made the gardens. But this year, owing to COVID, we haven’t been able to visit the gardens to take the pictures and write the stories.

That’s where you come in. We need you! If your garden is remarkable— beautiful or bountiful or experimental in some way—send us a few pictures, to the email below. We’ll use our favourites in Beautiful Gardens.

Now, why aren’t we asking for pictures from Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario? Well, it’s because we asked for those in our last issue, and readers responded in spades. Amazing pictures of wonderful gardens, and we’ll be using a lot of them. But we need gardens from the rest of Canada too!

What we’re looking for

Send up to 10 pictures.

Choose a couple of long-shots, which are overall pictures, taken from a distance, of your garden.

Choose a couple of close-ups of your favourite flowers. We know you can’t resist these pictures—we can’t either! But they could be taken in anyone’s garden.

And make the rest of the pictures mid-shots. These are pictures of a few flowers or a couple of budding vegetables that look great together. Or pictures of a garden statue or scare-

crow surrounded by plants. Or maybe your garden shed. Do you get the idea? Tell us your name and where the garden is—city or town or area and province. You can tell us something about yourself if you like too.

Troubles?

It can be difficult to send these pictures, particularly if you’re in a rural area with less-than-brilliant internet service. Try sending them two or three pictures at a time. We’ll let you know when we’ve got them, with a human-written email back to you. If we don’t write back, we haven’t got them. (Please allow for evenings and weekends before resending.) We look forward to seeing your garden!

Email pictures to: shauna@pegasuspublications.net