NOTES ON A JAPANESE GARDEN – BY BARBARA SIBBALD

IN A JAPANESE-THEMED GARDEN,  A SMALL SPACE HOLDS BIG IDEAS ABOUT DESIGNING WITH PLANTS, STONE, WATER AND “MA”, THE ALL-IMPORTANT SPACE IN BETWEEN.  PART GARDEN TRAVELOGUE, PART GARDENING EXPERIMENTS, THIS LECTURE DELIVERED BY BARBARA SIBBALD, AUTHOR AND MASTER GARDENER AIMS TO INS[IRE. 

BARBARA IS AN AWARD-WINNING FICTION AUTHOR, COMPULSIVE ORGANIZER, ARDENT ENVIRONMENTALIST AND GARDENER AND RELENTLESS READER.  SHE IS CURRENTLY COMPLETING HER FOURTH NOVEL, THE STORY OF THE RACISM AND HARDSHIPS HER GREAT-GRANDDPARENTS ENDURED IN THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF INDIA 1885  – 1912.  SHE HOLDS AN HONOURS BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN JOURNALISM FROM CARLETON UNIVERSITY AND HAS GARNERED THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALIST’S INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM PRIZE AND TWO CITATIONS OF MERIT FROM THE MICHENER AWARD FOR MERITORIOUS PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM.  BARBARA IS A MASTER GARDENER.  SHE NOT ONLY CULTIVATES HER OWN YARD BUT ALSO NEARBY PARKS IN OTTAWA CENTRETOWN.

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