Plant Hardiness during our Inevitable Winters

This is a typical design which I’d settle for, if I could uproot the front lawn, for minimal maintenance of weeds, watering. When replacing a lawn for native plants, and with the large amount of snow that gets transferred to…

Low maintenance conversion from a lawn

Garden Design is so difficult for me, but today I thought I found the solution in my neighbours design. Would it be kosher to just partially mirror their border design, since our pathways are adjacent, and “ imitation is the…

Hell Strip or Boulevard Gardens

Can anyone help point me to any City of Toronto rules on hell strip gardening? I am thinking about replacing parts of my front lawn with gardens.…

Landscaping Front Yard

Hi there I would like to add more interest to my front yard. Can you provide some guidance as to what plants/shrubs I should plant and where? I’ve attached pictures. Thanks!…

Choosing Dwarf Evergreens

Hi, I was wondering if you could recommend a slow growing evergreen tree for my front lawn. I live in Toronto where my house faces north. I am redoing my front lawn/driveway and am trying to decide what to plant.…

Front Beauty*

I recently took out some plants that were blocking the view to my house and was looking to replace them with plants and small trees that are specimen like and flower or show interesting characteristics at different times of the…