A landscape architect and arborist, he can be a little nerdy about urban design and streetscapes. When he moved to East Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood five years ago, he was fascinated with the community’s boulevard gardens, so he started photographing them. He created an Instagram account,“I just really like going on walks through the neighbourhood, and I started noticing how many great boulevard gardens there were around here and how they dance with the surrounding streetscape,” Mr.
“Public gardens … often don’t have that same personality that a lot of boulevard gardens do,” Mr. Farmand says.As his enthusiasm for these tiny gardens grew, so did his followers. Last July, a local environmental non-profit asked him to host a community walking tour. He agreed, as long as any money raised went to the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, a group that supports recent immigrants and refugees.
“You’re more likely to run into a neighbour and talk to them if you’re out gardening,” he says, adding that he notices people tend to be friendlier in neighbourhoods with more boulevard gardens.Near Glen Drive and East 11th Avenue.This garden has tiny gnome homes on Comox Street in Vancouver's West End.Hedges and grasses under moody skies near Prince Albert and East 23rd in East Vancouver.
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Cool project!