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From an elegant low maintenance garden of ornamental grasses and shrubs to a lush perennial island full of fragrance and bloom, with our many years of experience we can adapt any style to whatever space or budget at hand. 

We’ll custom design your new garden based on style preferences, family needs, sun/soil conditions, and budget to design the garden you want, not the one we want.  With the 1,000's of plants available today anything is possible!

Our holistic approach of working together with site conditions means your garden will flourish and grow more beautiful with age as each plant matures in good health, without crowding.  The right plant in the right place is the only route to a garden that requires only maintenance, not replacement, in the long term.

Once completed, we will be there to see that the garden develops as it should, or teach you how to look after it yourself.

 


“Shrub Pruning is no big deal.  You just trim back branches each year,  Right?     Wrong! 

What often passes for pruning is nothing less than plant torture! The power tool “haircut” or branch cut-back that we often see, not only destroys the natural form and potential beauty of a shrub or tree, but saps their strength making them vulnerable to pest or disease attack.

Plants become distorted with poor branch structure, develop "naked legs", with twiggy tip growth that has little energy for blooming well.

Our pruning is done with a good set of simple hand tools, knowledge of the individual growth patterns of each plant, combined with a thorough understanding of pruning responses and bud set habits of woody plants. 

Maturing trees and shrubs are the irreplaceable backbones of any garden. Protect and enhance your landscape investment with a professional pruning visit each year.  Anytime is good pruning time when there are problems to fix, but the dormant time between December and April is best, with a follow-up in late June for spring bloomers.

 Services Checklist

ON-SITE HOURLY CONSULTATIONS
£
soil health, renovation planning, 
plant choice guidance, design ideas, 
weed attack plan,  "next steps" advice.


GARDEN STAGING

£
Quick and colourful accenting, fresh seasonal container planting, pruning of messy overgrowth, etc. for best price home resale or spruce up for an event.

NEW GARDEN DESIGN & PLANTING
£
custom garden design and expert planting, or a detailed layout plan for you to plant yourself.

GARDEN BUDDY  
£
monthly teaching/advice visits guiding a garden's creation or renovation. Advise on soil preparation,  bed size and positioning, maintenance routines, plant choices, etc.

RENOVATION
£
repair of poor or depleted soil.
£
corrective or creative pruning
£
rejuvenate tired perennials
£
design enhancements with reshaping of beds and/or fresh planting

GARDENING CLASSES
£
Year round, indoor and outdoor gardening lessons, from in-depth 8 week courses to individual workshops.
£
Informative articles for print publication
£
We'll bring our classes to you!  On-site group lessons or hands-on workshops for your community club or summer landscape work crew.

SHRUB PRUNING
£
April, June & Nov. visits, for pruning maintenance in young gardens or renovation pruning in older ones.  Creative bonsai-ish pruning of overgrown evergreens a specialty.

SEASONAL CONTAINER PLANTING
£ Christmas urns, spring baskets, 


GARDEN POSSIBILITIES!
905 478-7915,
 
Evelyn Wolf

Evelyn@GardenPossibilities.com



Pruning Tip - September and October is NOT a good time to prune.  The growth that pruning stimulates doesn't have time to prepare it's cell structure appropriately (i.e. harden off) to survive the cold winter.  Hold off until plants are fully dormant - December to April is best. 

Our "Stop the Torture" pruning workshop combines a 3 hour detailed lesson with hands-on demonstrations.  Knowledgeable pruning is the most important of the many arts of gardening.  Learn how to "stop the torture" of your shrubs to allow your garden to mature with grace and beauty with no need for future replacement or renovation. 

 

 

 

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GARDEN POSSIBILITIES,  PERENNIAL GARDENING SERVICES
18825 Leslie St. 
( just 2 kms north of Green Lane, (Newmarket), on the east side). 
(by appointment only please)     NEW ADDRESS!  Watch during 2008 as our new teaching garden goes in!
Sharon, Ontario, L0G 1V0
905 478-7915

 

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