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A Secret Garden – A look inside the ultimate private backyard oasis!

Happy Monday friends!  

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A peek inside a private backyard paradise. This secret garden is a sight to behold

Hope your weekend temperatures were warmer than mine.  While we had a bit of sunshine yesterday, today has been another gray drizzly day in Niagara.

On days like today I love to browse photo’s of gorgeous gardens to remind myself that summer really is just right around the corner!

A peek inside a gorgeous backyard secret garden

 

Two of my favourite Niagara events are coming up.  The Shaw Festival Garden Tour and the Niagara On The Lake Horticultural Society Garden Tour.  Both tours feature stunning private gardens belonging to residents of Niagara On The Lake.  

 

A beautiful secret garden creates a private backyard oasis

 

It is such a treat to get to peek behind the fences and into the private yards that I have probably past several times while walking the dog, or even being invited to explore front gardens up close.  Master gardeners are usually mulling about to answer your gardening questions!

 

Private Backyard Oasis is the Ultimate Secret Garden

 

In all the years that I have been attending, this is probably the most impressive use of landscaping to create a private, not to mention stunning, secret garden that is the ultimate backyard oasis.  

Majestic evergreens, Japanese Maples, Blue Spruce, ornamental grasses and trees create texture, colour and privacy.  

 

This Secret Garden in Niagara On The Lake creates the ultimate backyard oasis

 

A view from the second floor balcony.  Although the decorative rod iron railings are lovely in their own right, they really blend in with the tree branches weaving in and out.

 

This secret garden creates the ultimate private backyard oasis in Niagara On The Lake

 

No garden is complete without a birdbath!

 

A beautiful secret garden is the ultimate private backyard escape in Niagara On The Lake

 

I would love a pond like this in our yard, but I am not sure I could keep the dogs out of it!

What really took my breath away though, was this terrace waterfall!  I mean. Have. You. Ever.  

I am  not sure what room opens up onto this terrace, but with an outdoor space like this I don’t think I would be spending much time inside anyway!  

 

Terrace waterfall is part of a secret garden oasis in Niagara on The Lake

 

This secret garden is the ultimate backyard oasis

 

After a day of exploring gardens like this one, we always come home full of ideas and while some are way out of our reach, it is fun to see if we can find one or two things to incorporate into our own landscape!

This year in our yard we have decided to add some evergreens to start creating more privacy in our without the expensive of a privacy fence.  

For more garden inspiration you can visit this post and this post.

Until next time…

Maureen

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  1. WE FINALLY got rain, two days so far and one more tomorrow but it was SOOO dry it was needed very badly here.