2nd opinion What do you do when two landscape professionals give you different opinions on proper deep edging? Like most […]
Ignore your haters
Picture trigger It all started very innocently. Having finished power shearing my section of cedars (Thuja occidentalis), I naturally walked […]
Can Aspen fuel help your landscaping business?
Aspen surprise This past fall, I was on a site in White Rock to install roughly ten cedars (Thuja occidentalis). […]
How landscape apprentices get trained
Slow and steady In my last blog post we met a young lady speeding through her apprenticeship levels back-to-back, in […]
The real reason you hear leaf blowers so much
Observations Having worked in the landscape industry since 2000, it finally dawned on me why we use leaf blowers so […]
Landscaper survives ‘weather bomb’
Wind warning Be careful what you wish for! One week ago, Vancouver Island measured the lowest pressure ever recorded, which […]
One temp solution to labor shortage
Busy autumn What do you do when you’re short of workers and your landscape company is facing a busy fall? […]
Vas gets ghosted
Why? Oh why? It’s a strange feeling arriving on site and finding out that the new hire didn’t show up. […]
Why tradeswomen need better workplaces
A bunch of old white dudes This past Saturday, August 7, 2021, the Globe and Mail newspaper published a great […]
How good is your landscape eye?
What’s landscape eye? Many years ago, when I apprenticed at a prominent Lower Mainland sweatshop, the landscape corporation put on […]
