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The Reford Gardens - 50 years of Shared Beauty
Reford Gardens
Grand-Métis , Quebec

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Reford, in 1918, Estevan
Lodge has been painstaking
maintained and carefully
restored to its former
splendrour. Today it is home
to a museum and exhibition
rooms.
   Beginning in 1926, at age
54, Elsie Reford began
creating her gardens. Guided

by her intuition, her love of
nature and her remarkable
energyu, she shaped her
garden into a place of beauty
by adapting traditional
horticultural methods to the
site's topography. She
succeeded in making a garden
where the growing conditions
at first glance were less

than ideal. Her success in
introducing new species -
such as the Himalayan blue
poppy - today the emblem of
Les Jardins de Métis - were
carefully recorded and are an
imporrtant moment in the
advancement of horticulture
in Canada.
   Built and augmented over

more than than thirty years,
Les Jardins de Métis were
opened to the public as a
tourist attraction in 1962.
The ambitious project of
Elsie Reford has been seen
more than than gfive million
visitors. Today it is the
source of insporration for
amateurs gardeners. The

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