Niagara Escarpment Views - Spring 2016

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On the rocky ground at Rural Rootz, Tom and Dee Ashman made garden beds out of large tires which they filled with soil and surrounded with stones. The sign with 10 on it corresponds to a pamphlet of notes for a self-guided tour. What to See Earthbound Gardens consists of a variety of demonstration gardens, from hot, dry, sandy situations to wet, dry, and shady spaces. One third of the property is test gardens. There is a large garden centre, and the owners grow everything they sell. Specialists in lilies and daylilies, they sell from a vast inventory of both. In addition to plant sales, they provide landscape and design services. There is a garden gift shop and metal art for sale. “We also love to share our enjoyment of what has been created at Earthbound,” they say. “We hold many events in the gardens, weddings, music concerts, NIA, yoga, photography shoots, workshops on edible plants, native plants, monarch butterflies.. the list goes on.” At Keppel Croft, in addition to the gardens near the house, there is the Keppel Henge, an astronomically correct structure that was completed as their millennium project. The astronomically correct Keppel Croft Henge was built by a group of friends as a millennium project. The central granite stone throws shadow on the encircling stones on the solstices and equinoxes. 38 Niagara Escarpment Views • spring 2016
Bill built the Keppel Croft “ruin” which frames the peonies and other flowers with a view of the fields beyond. Rural Rootz’ raised vegetable garden beds have hoops attached for a variety of protective covers. spring 2016 • Niagara Escarpment Views 39
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Page 18 and 19: NATURE & SCIENCE ART EXHIBIT Natura
Page 20 and 21: SECOND PLACE (THREE-WAY TIE) Bracke
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Page 24 and 25: DETERMINATION AND HARD WORK: The Co
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Page 28 and 29: ▲Heuchera or coral bells with lea
Page 30 and 31: ▲ Campanula or bellflowers glow i
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Page 34 and 35: Since 1977, Dawn and Bill Loney hav
Page 36 and 37: To people further south, Grey Count
Page 40 and 41: A gorgeous Tinkerbelle lilac was bl
Page 42 and 43: The large nursery and greenhouses a
Page 44 and 45: MEETING THE RAPTORS Nose to Beak wi
Page 46 and 47: S andra davey, raptor lead at Mount
Page 48 and 49: ▲ Jazz the 11-year-old female Bar
Page 50 and 51: ▲ Pierce, the Eastern Loggerhead
Page 52 and 53: n coming events For more events, go
Page 54 and 55: n The Gift of Land Looking Forward
Page 56 and 57: “Celebrating over 30 years in bus
Page 58 and 59: Common Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers
Page 60 and 61: n View of Land Conservation Will We
Page 62 and 63: FORESIGHT A property on the north s
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