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Peter Taylor, the founder of 11th Street Gardens Inc., is a gardener-landscaper with an eye and feel for all things green. Taylor grew up in rural Ontario, which perhaps explains his connection to Mother Nature. Yet, it wasn’t until 1995, when he and his partner John purchased a pair of two-storey, side-by-side houses built in 1912, that Taylor was bitten by the gardening bug.
Peter Taylor, 11th Street Gardens owner, pictured in the front yard of his two, vintage inner-city homes. The tree-lilac could well be as old as the homes which were built in 1912. Photo, Bill BrooksThe tree-lilac, Taylor says, could be as old as the houses. Lilacs of that variety are well known to survive 100-plus years. The older branches and trunk began twisting in the years following severe pruning and shaping. Initially, lilac suckers covered nearly 70 per cent of the front lawn.
In 1998, Taylor’s 11th Street Gardens Inc. really took off and he has designed, created and constructed numerous projects since then in inner-city Calgary, Springbank, Elbow Valley and Banff. • Taylor uses fertilizer with a higher nitrogen content early in the spring and fish fertilizer for the remainder of the gardening season.Article content
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