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6552 Jack Pine Cres.
Greely, Ontario
K4P 1E1
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Ivy makes her living preparing concept designs for a local display design company and illustrating zoological, biological and botanical specimens for the Ottawa University. In her spare time, Ivy shows her passion for gardening by drawing and painting flower and garden scenes. Examples of Ivy's flower illustrations can be found throughout StoneyWood House.
Stone Masonry
StoneyWood House provides a beautiful, modern example of local stone masonry. Bedrock found in the Ottawa Valley has been used as building material for the last 200 years. Originally many of the farm houses and community buildings were built of or faced in limestone or dolomite. Sadly, many of the stone structures of the rural valley have disappeared. Remaining local structures include the Parliment buildings, built between 1865 and 1927, Our Lady of the Visitation Church, built circa.1850, and the historic Manotick Mill, built circa 1800.Approximately ¾ of StoneyWood House is finished in hand chisseled dolomite found at or near the surface of the property. Each block of dolomite was carefully chiseled and mortared by Chuck Livingstone. The stone masonry project, started in 1980, has continued for the past 20 years. Stone masonry remains an ongoing interest and hobby and, even today, Chuck may be seen evenings and weekends chiseling away at slabs of dolomite.
Local Geological History
During the Paleozoic, some 300 to 400 million years ago, the area now occupied by the Ottawa valley was a vast warm inland sea. Over time, layers of carbonate sediments were deposited on the sea bottom. Over millions of years these sediments hardened into great slabs of limestone and dolomite rock. Subsequent sedimentary deposits were eroded during the last ice age leaving limestone and dolomite bedrock exposed in many areas throughout the area. If you look closely, you can see fossils such as brachiopods, crinoids, and corals within the rock.
Gardens
Stoneywood Bed and Breakfast features beautifully designed and maintained gardens and carefully tended woodlot pathways. As shallow soil and surface bedrock make traditional gardening impossible, Ivy has built a network of raised gardens. Each garden is enclosed by a wall of broken bedrock. The multi-level gardens enclose small green spaces and pathways where you may relax or wander at leisure. Everywhere you look is a profusion of colour and greenery carefully bedded in stone surrounds. The Stoneywood gardens are renowned in Greely and area and have been featured in the annual, Greely Garden Tour.
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