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Qualicum Beach, BC

Higson Court

A quiet 1981 courtyard where the gardens got forty years’ head start.

  • A curving walkway between two rows of townhouses, lined with purple butterfly bush, red maples and white hydrangeas.
    The courtyard path
  • The courtyard in full flower, borders running the length of both rows of townhouses.
    The courtyard in July
  • Purple mophead hydrangeas and a golden Japanese maple beside a river-rock border.
    Hydrangeas along the border
  • Red and green Japanese maples with shasta daisies at their feet beside a townhouse corner.
    Maples and shasta daisies
  • A narrow walkway running between clipped hedges and a large spreading pine.
    The path through the pines
  • A garden bed edged with grey driftwood and beach stone carried up from the shore.
    Driftwood carried up from the beach
  • Blue mophead hydrangeas turned by the acid soil, banked against a townhouse wall.
    Blue in the acid soil
  • A walkway under mature rhododendrons grown taller than the fence beside them.
    The rhododendron walk
  • A small garden bed dressed with white shells and low flowering plants.
    The shell bed
  • A deep perennial border in mixed colour running along the courtyard edge.
    The perennial border
  • A young olive tree underplanted with silver foliage in a stone-edged bed.
    The olive tree bed
  • Low clipped hedges squaring off the entrance to one of the townhouse rows.
    Clipped hedges at the entrance
  • The Higson Court sign at the entrance off the old highway, set in planting.
    The sign off the old highway

The garden townhouse

4 guests · 2 bedrooms · 2 bath · min 3 nights

Ten townhouses set around a courtyard off the old highway, on the sea side of the road. The buildings are plain and the gardens are not: hydrangeas gone blue in the acid soil, Japanese maples, driftwood and beach stone carried up from the shore three minutes away.

  • Three minutes on foot to the beach
  • Mature courtyard gardens, tended by the owners
  • Pub and corner grocery next door

What’s within walking distance

  • The shoreline 3 min walk · 233 m Round the crescent and up Seacroft Road to the water. The beach the driftwood and beach stone in the gardens came from.
  • Deez Bar & Grill Next door The pub next door. Fish and chips, wings, and the local sports bar.
  • Stop & Shop Groceries 2 min walk · 158 m The corner grocery, for milk, bread and the paper.
  • Black Bird Schnitzel Haus 4 min walk · 317 m Austrian and German cooking, a few doors along the highway.
  • Saahtlam Park 5 min walk · 355 m A small waterfront park with benches looking out over the Strait of Georgia.
  • Little Qualicum river mouth 8 min walk · 630 m Where the Little Qualicum River comes down to the sea. River swims in summer, and trail paths following the bank.
  • Brant Viewing Area 8 min walk · 633 m Where the brant geese stop over each spring on their way north.
  • Qualicum Beach village centre 45 min walk · 3.5 km · 6 min drive Town hall, the library, shops, and the Saturday farmers market.

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