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Planting & gardens
The part that makes the stone look finished.
Hardscape without planting reads as a parking lot. Planting is what softens the edges and makes a built yard feel like it grew there.
Planting
Plants that survive a Zone 5 winter
Half of what gets sold at big-box garden centres in May is dead by the following March in this climate. We plant what holds up here, in the exposure it actually gets, at the spacing it will need in five years rather than the day it goes in.
- Shrubs, trees and perennials chosen for sun, shade and road salt
- Foundation beds, borders and full front-yard replanting
- Privacy planting — cedars, columnar trees and layered screens
- Seasonal colour where it gets noticed
Beds, mulch & stone
Edges are what people read as tidy
A clean bed edge cut by hand does more for a property than another shrub. It is also the first thing to disappear when a maintenance crew is rushing.
- Bed edges re-cut to a consistent line
- Hardwood or dyed mulch at proper depth
- River rock, garden stone and decorative gravel
- Steel, stone or paver edging where beds meet lawn
Sod
When seed will not do it in time
Seed is cheaper and, given a full season, usually better. But after a build, on a new-construction yard, or when a property has to look finished before a sale, sod is the only thing that gets you there in a week.
The grade gets prepared properly first. Sod laid on compacted construction fill is money spent on something that will be brown by August, because the roots never reach anything they can live in.
- Grade corrected and topsoil added where the builder left none
- Rolled and watered in, with a watering schedule you can actually follow
- Repair strips along driveways and walks after winter damage
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