Gardening in Ottawa by Chuck & Jean we are Plant Partners
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Since you are viewing this on the web I think I can safely say that I am a "soft ware guy". We install/maintain/upgrade your "landscape soft ware". In some cases we are called in to re-install a clients shrubberies etc. after the "hard ware" guys (that's heavy machinery, rock piling and paving guys) have already tried once. Sometimes we are even called in to rethink a designers choices from a gardeners point of view. Which is picking the right plant materials to suite clients artistic, and/or functional concepts , considering site conditions such as drainage, exposure, soil, usage, surroundings, etc.
My Landscape gardening is organized into three main categories
Please note: none of them include piling or unpiling stones natural or man made :-). These activities I reserve for at home ( if I get caught)
Planting Maintenance Upkeep
Planting: call Chuck or Jean 613-657-8915
My favorite job in the spring is flower planting. Jean and I spend hours in various garden centers choosing flowers. We oohhh and ahhh over the new varieties and colors that growers have managed to create for this year.
computer software, and a good relationship with local suppliers, that help us understand what will grow where. Some rock garden plants come from our own gardens.Most of our regular clients outline what look or objective they want, and leave plant selections to us. Both of us always look for the best plant material available. We have books,
Bed preparation:
the key to good growing lawns and gardens Here is some of the things I look at.(that's stuff like hole sizes, soil additions, fertilizer, etc.) helps to ensure success. Observing a few key micro climate conditions such as soil, water, wind, and sun and then making adjustments, helps a little more. Planting trees vertical is eye pleasing don't you wish everybody got it straight.Using established planting techniques
Shrubs, we do so much with them , from evergreen hedging, to regimented masses in beds, foundation screening, or stand alone features. They originate all over the world. They even act as symbols, I mean what would a MacDonald's be without it weeping pea. (originating from the Russian steppe)
for hundreds of years and swamps alike. However it really helps to do it right.In the Ottawa area eastern white cedar grows very well and is the most popular hedge plant. It surprises most people to know that they are not truly a cedar at all. It's kinda like the English sparrow which isn't really a member of the sparrow family at all but the weaver family. Arbor Vitae (eastern white cedar) is a tremendously rugged plant surviving in rocky cliff's
If your commercial project is Large and requires "Landscape Architect services", Corush/Sunderland/Wright is a excellent company based in Ottawa. email Sue at [email protected]
Maintenance:
My favorite job in the fall is Cedar hedge trimming. Smells great
Its best to prune your flowering shrubs shortly after they flower. I do most of my cedar hedge trimming in the cool weather of spring or fall.
Elements of a Landscape maintenance program.
Spring Clean-up (April)
- raking lawns (for leaf pickup ,
winter dumped road gravel, and snow mold)
- clean out - beds - hedging - tree circles
- litter pickup
- soil cultivation
Beds, Shrubs & Trees
Fall Clean Up
My upkeep program is customized to work with each clients special needs.
- It usually contains some or all the
elements of regular maintenance
- Yearly (or less frequeent)
maintenance and/or restoration including pruning, and
replacements
- Weeding and cultivatioon
- annual flower plantingg
- heavy pruning (below 115')
- Transplanting , dividiing, rearrangements,
reductions
- soil additions
- create and /or maintain those all important borders
Chuck Barton a Plant Partner
613-657-8915 [email protected]