Our
Gardening Services
a small team of
experienced gardeners, dedicated to quality work that's focused on
long term garden health and beauty.
Custom Perennial Garden Design and Expert Maintenance
From an elegant low
maintenance garden of shrubs 
and
ornamental grasses to a lush island garden full of fragrance and
bloom. With our many years of experience we can adapt any
style or plant preference to whatever space or budget is at hand,
to create a garden that stands out from the rest.
We'll custom design your new perennial garden based on - your plant style choices; a thorough investigation of the site; family needs; sun/soil conditions; and budget. With the 1,000's of plants available today, anything is possible! Using a right-plant-in-the-right-place approach, your garden will flourish and grow more beautiful with age as each plant matures in good health, instead of needing replacement just a few years on. There is no such thing as a garden site without some type of challenge - dry sandy soil ... too wet with poor drainage ... too shady ... very windy ... etc. Working together with your unique site conditions, and using our 25 years of experience with beyond-the-ordinary perennial plants, is the key to success.
Once completed, my well trained team will be there if you need us, to see that your new garden develops as it should with either regular maintenance visits from our expert team of gardeners, or through our gardening classes to teach you how to look after it yourself.
Call soon to book your garden consultation and we'll explore your garden's possibilities!
Evelyn
Wolf garden consultant
Garden Possibilities Services
your perennial garden expert.
289-716-1408 or
905 478-7395
Evelyn@GardenPossibilities.com
Expert Shrub & Small Tree Pruning
Shrub Pruning is no big
deal.
You
just trim back branches each year into a neat shape before winter
sets in. Right?
Wrong! What often passes for pruning is nothing less than plant torture!
The power tool "haircut" that all too often passes for "pruning", 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 and develop "naked legs", with twiggy tip growth that has little energy to put out any flowers.
Contrary
to popular practice, September is NOT a good time to prune!
It's actually the only time of the whole year where any major
pruning can be outright harmful. Growth that pruning
stimulates doesn't have time to prepare it's cell structure properly
(i.e. "harden off") in time for winter, plus spring flowers are cut
away.
Any time is a good time to remove diseased or damaged branches, but
hold off on any larger structural pruning until at least the end of
Oct when plants are going dormant, so no growth will be
stimulated. Dec to late Apr is best, with a follow-up in June for
spring bloomers.
Our shrub and small tree pruning is done with a good set of simple hand tools ... knowledge of the potential beauty and natural growth pattern of each shrub ... a thorough understanding of plants' natural response to pruning and their bud set habits, and how to manipulate these responses to achieve a particular design goal and long term health.
Maturing trees and shrubs are the irreplaceable backbones of any garden. They are one of the few things in life that increase in value as they get older! If they need replacing every handful of years because poor pruning practices have disfigured or weakened them, your garden's design will always need renovating. Only through regular good pruning will your shrubs ever reach and maintain the gorgeous stature of the picture, or specimen you saw, that originally inspired you to choose it for your garden.
Protect and enhance your landscape
investment with a professional pruning visit each
year. Just 3 short visits at different times through
the season will get the job done!
Evelyn Wolf,
GARDEN POSSIBILITIES Services