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This client had let her garden go the year before this and it was taken over by various types of weeds, feeling exasperated she hired a landscaper who simply came in and put black fabric ground cloth over all the weeds and plant material and covered it with mulch the fall before calling us. They hadn't pulled any weeds and covered up all the well established plant material. They simply weed wacked everything down and covered it up. The problem in the spring was the weeds started growing up through any holes in the cloth and all around the sides of the beds.

Our group came in and removed all of the ground cloth, turned all the beds around the plant material that could be saved, pulled any weeds that were growing up through and under the ground cloth and reapplied the mulch.

Early in the season, we added plant material that we purchased within the budget of the client, in consultation with the client. Through the summer, we often have excess plant material when thinning other clients gardens, with permission of those clients, we re-distribute the plant material to our other clients and create new landscapes with a variety of plants that our clients otherwise would not have spent the money on. Having a variety of clients allows us to add plant material without cost to our clients, with exception of labour.

We managed to save some of the existing plant material.
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As you can see in this shot some of the old plant material and plenty of weeds were able to survive being covered with the landscape fabric and mulch and in this picture, very early in the spring, they began to emerge. They did leave a half dozen types of perennials undercovered that they recognized, such as the Daylily clump in the front of this bed.

In this image you see a pretty ugly back yard, take special note of the lovely plywood hiding 3 feet of junk that had been piled up over the years in the very back of the yard. The new owner of this house asked that we cleanup the yard so that his tenant could use it.

I submitted a design and the work began. Here you see we layed patio slabs down the center of the garden and built two flower beds. The foreground was an after thought by the owner, so we added a grassy area for the tenants dog to do his business on.

Here you see us working into the night, as the job as always had to be done the day before the owner called us in. Notice the fence in the back, we put that up after removing a full 100 yard container of wood, brick, concrete, beer bottles, you name it from that area and put a privacy fence.

He were doing one final cleanup of the patio. We have 3 crushed rock beds to help reduce any weeding in the back as this yard is 90% shade.

The tenant was thrilled, as was her pooch as you can see in the foreground the brown patches in the grass from the puppy. The left garden was planted by the tenant, herbs, vegetables etc. we planted the flowers on the right.