by Jessica Salvador | Mar 19, 2020 | Bark Mulch, Garden Care, Gardening Vancouver, Plants and Flowers
Design your annual plant display. Have fun choosing your colour scheme and plants for this year’s annual display in your garden. For some up-to-date trend information and suggestions, keep any eye out for articles from expert gardeners in your area. Plant growers work...
by Jessica Salvador | Mar 3, 2020 | Garden Care, Gardening Vancouver, Hedge Trimming, Plants and Flowers
Renovate Garden Beds Need to move plants around or divide some overgrown perennials? Early Spring is the perfect time to make your garden even more lush. Divide Perennials Lots of perennials love to be divided, it makes them healthier and produces better flowers. If...
by Jessica Salvador | Feb 20, 2020 | Gardening Vancouver, Hedge Trimming, Plants and Flowers, Tree Pruning, Vegetable Garden
Are you wondering what needs to be done in the garden at this time of year? Here’s what we recommend needs attention in Late Winter. These gardening tasks are usually done in February, or as early as January in milder climates. Rose Pruning. Pruning roses back...
by Jessica Salvador | Feb 16, 2020 | Garden Trends, Gardening Vancouver, Raised Vegetable Bed, Vegetable Garden
Grow Food Organically in Your Own Garden Kids love to grow their own food, and plenty of adults enjoy growing vegetables in the garden. There’s nothing quite as magical as planting a seed into some rich soil and watching a plant develop and provide food. In...
by Jessica Salvador | Feb 22, 2017 | Garden Care, Gardening Vancouver, Hedge Trimming, Landscaping Vancouver
Cedar hedges can grow rather quickly and in order to keep the hedge healthy and looking its best it is advised that you trim the hedge two times per year. Preparing to trim your cedar hedge Hedge trimming can be done at the same time of year as your spring garden...
by Jessica Salvador | Feb 15, 2017 | Garden Care, Garden Clean Up, Gardening Vancouver, Hedge Trimming, Landscaping Vancouver, Plants and Flowers
This spring will surely be a time of repairing and replacing plants in Vancouver gardens. Vancouver gardeners have experienced an extreme winter to say the least. Several snowfalls brought heavy, wet snow to our landscapes. Following the snow were periods of hard...
by Jessica Salvador | May 27, 2015 | Gardening Vancouver
Whether cedar, laurel, yew or boxwood hedge, these hedges can all be shaped into distinct styles. Formal, square hedges are commonly found on West Side properties. Recently, we have noticed a trend toward softer looking rounded corners. Rounded hedges are as tidy in...
by Jessica Salvador | Jul 7, 2014 | Gardening Vancouver
There’s a new fungus in town, Clindrocladium pseudonaviculatum, that may affect your boxwoods, Japanese spurge and Himalayan sweetbox shrubs. Boxwood blight affects infected plants rapidly, but there are preventative measures that can be taken to reduce the spread of...
by Jessica Salvador | May 5, 2014 | Gardening Vancouver
Hedge Trimming: Cedar Hedges, Laurel Hedges, Holly Hedges, Boxwood Hedges, Yew Hedges and more! If you are in the Vancouver area, then you know that we have fast growing hedges that seem to grow like crazy. If you have decided that trimming your cedar hedge ortrimming...
by Jessica Salvador | Apr 28, 2014 | Garden Clean Up, Landscaping Vancouver, Lawn Care, Pressure Washing
Three Ways To Get Rid of Moss In Your Landscape. Moss on the pathways. As the spring garden clean up season gets under way in Vancouver, after a high rainfall winter with several snowfalls, it’s noticeably slippery on sidewalks, driveways and decks. Professional...
