Garden Design & Restorations

A garden can be an excellent teacher, revealing by its successes and failures the ways of Mother Nature. When Candace Mallette and her husband moved into their home in Ottawa, Ontario, she became an apt pupil. “I knew absolutely nothing about tending a garden when we moved into our home. I started spending time in the yard and was just amazed at the new growth on the plant material in the spring. I started to experiment with new plantings and read everything I could on gardening. My fire was lit,” she says. Today, gardening is Mallette’s profession, and she even runs her own landscaping firm specializing in residential design and garden restoration. In addition to the lessons she learned in her own garden, she augmented her education by attending courses in professional landscape design at a local university.