I’ve worked with many people over the years and the one guy that stands out for me is bad boy […]
Long live the temp
Walking up to my truck last week I noticed a long line of gas spilled on the sidewalk. Here we […]
TIGA safety boots for women
As I walked the trade floor at last year’s CanWest Hort Show, my eye caught a booth with colored work […]
How to do bedwork like a pro
Sometimes there are several different ways of completing the same landscape task. People do what they do based on their […]
Training apprentices
Sometimes I can’t believe how fast the landscape seasons piled up on me. Becoming a landscape professional is a wild […]
Codominant stems
Last week, while my crew was busy staying busy on yet another sub-zero temperature morning, I stepped into a dry riverbed […]
Soils are key!
Interviewing one of my landscape horticulture apprentices about his year two course recently, I asked him what he disliked the […]
January landscape maintenance tasks
Landscape maintenance in January can be challenging, especially considering the recent cold spell. The worst cold in thirty years has hit […]
Will the recent cold kill off the European chafer beetle?
One question I have been getting lots at work lately is about the European chafer beetle. Our local landscapes have […]
Sending the elevator back down
“Sending the elevator back down” is a phrase I read somewhere in a business book. It refers to sharing your […]
