Helen & Doug's Garden, Toronto

A front-yard garden enveloped by an elongated hill, inspired by Neolithic-age Serpent's Mound. Ablaze with newly planted trees and shrubs, the hill rises five feet, diffusing traffic noise. Metaphor rides her rock-lined spine: a Japanese Scholar Tree at her head, fertility cave at her loins. Within the garden, a meandering stone walk past red oaks and an arc of white flowering deutzia leads to a stone circle, pointing to points of significance in the cardinal directions: the rock appearing like Bodhidharma in the east, the rock appearance of the witch and her consort of the west, the old crone of the north, the male fertility stone of the south.