Topics

Planning your garden space

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:55:08 -0700

It is important that your garden fit your lifestyle and budget. For a complete checklist on how to hire a landscaper and all the questions to ask, click here.

Tips on Designing a Container Garden

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:13:21 -0700

Select containers of one style or material and/or of the same or similar colour palette to create a sense of harmony.

On the Side

Tue, 01 May 2007 11:04:46 -0700

By Sharon Hanna

Make the most of those strips alongside your home with unexpected garden rooms and enchanting entrances.

Make a Great Entrance

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:58:00 -0800

By Sharon Hanna

A warm welcome will beckon friends and family into your abode. Create a gorgeous gateway to your home with fabulous fencing, slabs of stone, winding walkways and picturesque plantings.

Edge Gardening

Mon, 01 May 2006 08:48:24 -0700

By Barbara Rayment

Buildings, fences, paths and hedges create planting opportunities and microclimates within the garden.

Landscape Company Brings Emerging Hope to Those Dealing with Poverty

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:56:09 -0800

By Carol Pope

When Chaplain Melita Thornhill looks back, she is quick to note that it is because of “many little angels” that this February’s BC Home and Garden Show will feature an extensive garden and display created by the organization she spearheaded five years ago to help residents in the downtown eastside escape the downward spiral of poverty and addiction.

Add a Sustainable Pond Ecosystem to Your Landscape

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:05:42 -0800

GardenWise Online

Unlike the leaky, high-maintenance water features of old, today’s ecosystem ponds use a blend of high-tech techniques and common sense to create water gardens that work with nature.

Ensure Your Landscape Professional Meets the B.C. Landscape Standards

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:27:27 -0800

Installing a new landscape or maintaining an existing one requires considerable knowledge. Ideally the landscape plan for a new installation should be done in conjunction with the architectural plans. This will allow the garden features to be harmonized with the architectural features. In other cases the landscaping is installed after the buildings are completed or the installation is a renovation project.

Garden Makeover: Kitsilano Heritage House

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:18:52 -0800

By Judith Hogan

Anne Talbot-Kelly Garden Design reclaims the gardens of a 1912 Kitsilano heritage house.

Fragrant Garden Planting Plan

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:01:00 -0700

By Kelly Schroeder

Here's a garden to plant before the first hard frost or this coming spring to fill your summer with unforgettable scents.