West Coast Landscape Professional

By Red Seal Vas07/05/20192 min read

obstructions: pruning with urgency

The one key element in obstruction pruning is urgency because obstructions can’t be ignored for very long. For example, it […]

By Red Seal Vas06/05/20193 min read

There is one huge up-side to having twenty landscaping seasons under my belt: new experiences really stick out. Last year […]

By Red Seal Vas04/05/20194 min read

I visited the Dogwood Garden Club plant sale two years ago but, because I arrived very late, there were only […]

By Red Seal Vas12/04/20194 min read

I was working at a large strata site last week and when I walked by the entrance, my boss casually […]

By Red Seal Vas02/04/20194 min read

I see this all the time on the West Coast. A middle-aged man who loves the lawn patch in front […]

By Red Seal Vas01/04/20194 min read

If you run regularly you will know what fartlek is. If you don’t like running, I will define it for […]

By Red Seal Vas31/03/20194 min read

There is always an interesting early season stretch between the end of winter and early spring. It’s warmer but not […]

By Red Seal Vas29/03/20194 min read

When I worked at the City of Coquitlam parks department in 2014-2015, I had to deliver a lunch time safety […]

By Red Seal Vas01/03/20194 min read

I interviewed landscape horticulture apprentice Lynda after she completed level one of her program. You can read that blog post […]

By Red Seal Vas31/01/20193 min read

This past weekend I was in Seattle, USA, for my son’s soccer tournament and I managed to escape briefly to […]