There are almost nine years between these two photos, the one with the deer was taken around the 24th November, 2016 and we had been in Sooke for about a month. I think we had just got into the car to go to the Prestige Hotel for happy hour, nine years today.
This second one was taken about June this year, quite amazing how the trees and shrubs have grown. Well, the only one that was planted then is the town maple tree, looks to be perhaps seven foot tall in the first photo and now probably five times as tall. A great proportion of the shrubs planted were obtained from Russell Nursery, up in Sidney, bought with a gift card from the mother in law.
The garden is quite a tracker of time going by, many planning jobs, the delivery of rocks for borders, multiple loads of mulch and gravel, stepping stones and, along the way, some plants failed, or were eaten, or as with the douglas Fir tree, broken at the header by another roving bunch of deer when it was just three foot tall.
It too has become a little monster.
