Tour Stops

Dancing on the Rideau

Dancing on the Rideau

Professionally landscaped by the previous owners, this riverside garden includes wooded and wildflower areas, a sculpture garden featuring works by Laura Brown-Breetvelt, Pieter Doef and Michael Gray, fruit tree allée, perennial borders and a secret garden which...

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Country Garden

Country Garden

Welcome to our country garden laid out over approximately two acres. The house is bordered with perennials designed to provide pops of different colours throughout the growing season. The flower gardens were established by the Beach family who built the house in 2012....

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Heritage Garden

Heritage Garden

The previous owners of this beautiful circa 1834 stone house spent many years building up the beautiful rambling English gardens that surround the property. The vibrant and cohesive colour schemes evolve from injections of pink, purple and fushia in the spring and...

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Creekside

Creekside

Welcome to Creekside, situated on 10 acres along the Rideau Creek which is hidden through the stand of limbed up spruce and pine trees. Before retirement, Christine managed the propagation department for the largest perennial nursery on the West coast and Kevin...

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Stephen Merrick House Garden

Stephen Merrick House Garden

The Stephen Merrick House, built about 1850, is known for its striking front- facing ashlar stone blocks and Greek inspired portico. The house was desIgned and constructed with with simplicity, balance, and symmetry in mind. To support and not distract from the...

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Young Garden

Young Garden

This is a young garden that has been expanding annually since 2019. The site challenges include a front yard septic weeping bed restricting plantings to shallow rooted perennials and bedrock only inches below the surface on much of the lot. The aim is to plant a...

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Nautical Workshop

Nautical Workshop

Welcome to Waldie Woodworks, our hobby shop on Rideau River Road. The shops provide us a facility to indulge in our passion for the building, restoration and collection of wooden boats. In the shop we have built sailboats, canoes and kayaks as well as restored Cedar...

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We will be featuring a number of fine gardens. Please check back in the coming weeks as we add more.