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Vas knows best: the secret to Red Seal success
The secret Let’s get the secret out of the way right in the first paragraph. I know that some of […]
All work, no play makes Jack a dead boy
Hustle The dude pictured above is a hustler and I found him in a Facebook lawn care group. He loves […]
Landscaping under a heat dome
BC heat dome My province of British Columbia is stuck under a heat dome today and, as I type this, […]
Voodoo mole control
Unsolicited advice While pruning out dead branches from inside a Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) recently, my pole pruners nearly collided […]
Let drooping sedges droop
Suspicious requests It’s not uncommon for strata owners to make suspicious requests, even though they don’t technically own the gardens […]
Why Dr. Suzanne Simard searches for mother trees
Finding the mother tree If you’re like me, you discovered Suzanne Simard’s work in Peter Wohlleben’s best-seller “The secret life […]
How mulch saves you money
Weeds move in Freshly installed mulch looks great and, when applied at the correct depth (2″ minimum) it deprives weed […]
On the possibility of delight
Monty speaks Monty Don, the famous UK gardener, writing in his December 2020 Gardener’s World article, talks about the possibility […]
Climate change, the Hoover Dam and life in the West
First visit to Arizona I made my first visit to Arizona when I visited the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead […]
