Garden of Mary Pottier and Warren Franklin

Mary and Warren’s home by the sea was designed in 1969 in the West Coast Modernist style. This design style features the integration of landscape and structure, with an abundance of wood, stone, an open plan, and windows with expansive views of the Queen Charlotte Channel and the Coast Range. The property, with its wonderful southeast exposure, encompasses an acre of gently sloping gardens.

When Mary and Warren chanced upon the property, for sale for the first time in 1995, it had fallen into deep disrepair due to the owner’s advancing age. Despite all the blackberry, bindweed, and horsetails, they knew this was the garden…After years of clearing and uncovering some of the structure, planting finally began and today, 30 years later, the park-like grounds have been reshaped to create garden rooms for entertainment, boat-watching, and bocce games. Mature specimens abound, with roses, rhododendrons, perennials, bulbs, hydrangeas, espaliered apple trees, and boxwood hedges surrounding the home and drive.