Creating a functional luxury garden space
BY DANIELLE POPE | PHOTOS BY LIA CROWE In a city lauded for its extravagant gardens, springtime welcomes with it a certain fervour for digging up the dirt. It takes experience,…
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Gardening in a new era
As climate change brings more extreme weather to Vancouver Island’s temperate seasonal cycle, whole-system planning can help gardeners withstand the change. BY SUSAN HOLLIS Resilience is a popular term these…
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The Benefits of a Project Manager in Landscape Design
What’s the difference between hiring a contractor or a landscape designer to oversee your garden renovation project?
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What to Know before Hiring a Landscape Professional
BY DANÉE MARIE LAMBOURNE & JOHN CONNORS You’re ready. This is the year you’ve decided to tackle your property, and transform the space into the utopia you’ve always dreamed of.…
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The New Perennial Garden: A Guide to Design and Care
Perennial gardens offer a naturalistic expression of billowing grasses and pollinator vignettes. They also offer many benefits to the native ecosystem and to us as homeowners and land stewards.
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Winter Interest Gardens
BY DANÉE MARIE LAMBOURNE & JOHN CONNORS It’s winter, or the “off-season” as the gardeners in Victoria, ‘City of Gardens,’ often refer to it. In just a few months, our…
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Incorporating timeless design elements in your contemporary garden
Local landscape designers provide advice on curating a contemporary garden design that’s at once timely and timeless.
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How to Discern if a Landscape Contractor is a Good Fit
Danée Lambourne of Eden Projects shares some questions to ask yourself to decide if a landscaping contractor is a good fit.
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A Happy, Healthy Garden: Growing Food with the Birds and the Bees
Biophilia Design Collective’s Bianca Bodley tells us a beautifully designed garden should be loved by humans and insects alike.
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