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What to Do When: Early Summer Gardening
Finalize your annual plant display. Order and buy your plants in mid-to late May. Plant summer annuals. Plan on getting right into planting mode during the last two weekends in May. This is the typical “frost free” period for all of America, even Canada. Getting your...
What to Do When: Late Spring Gardening
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...
What To Do When: Early Spring Gardening Tasks
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...
What to do When in the Garden: Late Winter
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 to a...
Growing Vegetables at Home in Raised Beds
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 Vancouver...
Tips for Trimming Cedar Hedges
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...
Snow damaged plants in the garden
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...
Top 5 Shapes for a Stylish Hedge
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...
Boxwood Blight
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...
Hedge Trimming: Service for Vancouver Homeowners
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...
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Helping homeowners have a beautiful garden so they have time to stop and smell the roses. Our team at Higher Ground Gardens would love to hear from you.