House Beautiful: A window on a lush, green waterfront world Sunny outdoors, light indoors combine in elegant home with spectacular garden, part of the Teeny Tiny Garden Tour fundraiser for Victoria Hospice. Grania Litwin Jun 1, 2024 4:30 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Previous Next 1 / 1 Clematis is being trained to run along the wooden beam horizontally. Advertisement Expand Listen to this article 00:05:07 A sumptuous rose in Caroline Haywood’s garden is so vigorous it blooms almost all summer and she can’t keep up with deadheading.
It’s a bit exasperating, but that’s just what you want in a tiny garden — plants that make a big statement despite their diminutive size. There is no room for any under-achieving shrub, flower or tree. This is certainly true of Haywood’s garden on Portage Inlet waterfront which is being featured in the Annual Teeny Tiny Garden Tour taking place Sunday, June 9, with proceeds going to Victoria Hospice.
( See details below .) Her small lot brims with colour, foliage and scent and her house is equally attractive on many levels — including the most important which is the owner’s desire to live here forever. Haywood, who is a retired nurse, was twice widowed and between her husbands, “after the kids left home,” she decided to become a travelling nurse.
She worked all over B.C., was based in Newfoundland four times, and then California and New Hampshire for months or year.
