For years, beech has been one of our favourite hedging plants. When a client wanted a formal hedge and cedars weren’t the right fit—too much shade, too much die-back risk, too fickle in the wrong spot—beech was almost always the answer we reached for first. It tolerates shade well, holds its coppery leaves through winter…

Boxwoods are the backbone of so many Toronto-area gardens. Their tidy, evergreen structure anchors formal hedges, frames front walkways, and holds a garden together through every season. But that same boxwood you’ve shaped and grown for years is now under pressure from several pests at once — and one of them, the box tree moth,…

Every spring, the patio that looked fine in October suddenly reveals everything it was hiding. A corner that has sunk. Joints choked with weeds. A wobbly stone where the dog likes to skid to a stop. The question is always the same: is this a quick fix, a real project, or time to start over?…

For over a century, boxwoods have been the workhorse of formal landscapes across Toronto. Walk through Rosedale, Forest Hill, Lawrence Park, or Lytton Park and you’ll see them everywhere — crisp green hedges along driveways, tidy globes flanking front doors, geometric parterres framing front gardens. They’re slow-growing, evergreen, shade-tolerant, and shear into almost any shape…

If you’ve worked with us for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed we have strong opinions about planters. There’s a reason. We’ve installed thousands of containers across the GTA over the years, and we’ve watched cheap pots crack in their first winter, fade by August, and turn into seasonal money pits for our clients.…

So you’ve got a landscape project in mind, and you want to know more about how we work and what to expect when you reach out. I thought I’d walk you through how we approach new landscape projects, and the steps we go through when clients need help. A Quick Overview Behind the scenes, we…

One of the most common – and the most fun – projects we take on for clients is designing and planting pollinator gardens. There’s no big trick – most flowering plants attract bees, butterflies and other pollinator species, so if you plant lots of beautiful perennials and shrubs that flower at different times of year,…

The end of season holiday speech by our general manager Michael Chudy for 2023.