House Beautiful: Green thumb cultivates garden on a mountainside A stop on the Sooke Secret Garden Tour features a beautiful oasis carefully designed by the homeowner on a property which is one quarter exposed rock. Grania Litwin May 25, 2024 4:15 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Previous Next 1 / 1 The garden includes about 30 different peonies. “The deer are quite relentless and ate many of them in the first years when the shoots were small.
I have spent a lot of time chasing deer around the house,” said Sharon Brindley. PHOTOS BY DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST Advertisement Expand Listen to this article 00:05:40 Sharon Brindley doesn’t normally design houses or gardens, but about five years ago she did just that. The attractive results caught the eye of Sooke Secret Garden Tour organizers, who asked her to open her garden for the tour.
She was both surprised and delighted to fulfil the request. “I am certainly not a house or landscape designer,” she explained, adding she is more familiar with designing hearing clinics from coast to coast. “I used to work for a retail hearing company with offices across Canada and I looked after all the company real estate.
“I found locations, designed clinics and oversaw construction, and over the years I oversaw brand new construction, total renovations and clinic refreshes for about 90 different properties.” After immigrating to Calgary from England and then movin.