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House garden tour.
elcome to the House garden tour.
Enjoy the garden by taking a virtual walk around the house and experience the lush greenery and beautiful colours of the plants and flowers that grow here.
ather bought ten acres of land - part of what was known as Beckley Farm. It was over James' Bay and I have heard my mother tell how she cried at the lonesomeness of going to live in a forest. Yet father's land was only one mile out of the town. There was but one other house near that of father's.
As far back as I can remember Father's place was all made and in order. House was large and well built, of California redwood, the garden prim and carefully tended. Everything about it was extremely English. It was as though Father had buried a tremendous homesickness in this new soil and it had rooted and sprung up English. There were hawthorn hedges, primrose banks, and cow pastures with shrubberies.
We had an orchard and a great tin lined apple room, wonderful strawberry beds and raspberry and currant bushes, all from imported English stock, and an Isabella grape vine which Father took great pride in. We had chickens and cows and a pig, a grand vegetable garden - almost everything we ate grew on our own place.
--The Book of Small by Emily Carr.
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