Spring Garden Tips: What to Do and What to Avoid Ignore Your Lawn! It’s far too early to work on your lawn. 1. Why It’s Too Early to work on your lawn. Working on your lawn too early in the spring can indeed be counterproductive for several reasons: Risks of Damaging New Growth • Tender … Read more
One of our pet-peeves is the low barrier to entry for landscaping companies. You can see evidence of this at many traffic lights – signs advertising interlock installation for an unbelievable price. They usually are not installed correctly and will fail after one or two freeze/thaw cycles. Please don’t get me wrong. There are many … Read more
One of our favourite things to do is revitalize gardens. Here is a garden in Mississauga we worked on this summer. We built a front landing, steps and a glass railing a few years ago. They had us back for this one! Refurbishing a garden is fairly straightforward. The design is important but knowing how … Read more
Weed Barrier and why it is BAD – and doesn’t work… AKA – Landscape Fabric, Geotextile. And what you should do instead…. As a landscaper, I always dread each time a client asks us to install weed barrier. Landscaping brings a lot of challenges and weeds in gardens are among the greatest. Too many … Read more
Every spring the landscape wakens with the wonderful colours of spring flowering bulbs. We all know them; tulips, daffodils, crocus…. and so many more.
I was having a chat with a client recently about thatch on their lawn. I mentioned the word thatch and the client ‘s eyes bulged as if said there were zombies in their shed.
An interesting morning. I love mornings. I love spring mornings when the plants are all dripping from the overnight rain. There is a low cloud, it is misty and drizzly.
Spring is here. What an odd year we are having. The COVID-19 isolation is hurting many people very profoundly. Our business is hurting. But I’ll tell you something. I would rather be hurting in my business than be sick – or worse. And I would rather be at home than run the possibility of infecting … Read more
