is defined as a person who creates art using conscious skill and creative imagination.
is defined as a person who uses the art and craft of growing plants and creating beauty within the landscape.
Both artists and landscapers have similar attributes, the difference being that landscaping uses art elements on a living canvas.
Landscaping adorns your home increasing its beauty and value. Select an impressive combination of plant adornments for your home to create proportion, pattern, variety, contrast, rhythm and balance. Landscape with elegance and simplicity.
Using these medieval design principles, we can fabricate mass and intensive plantings within the lines of your property, creating big impact in small spaces. These tightly woven plantings resembling a tapestry can be made with shrubs, flowers, and herbs. This design idea uses the entirety of the soil surface, keeping weeds to a very low minimum.
Together, we can easily create a composition of beauty with plants. Creating beds and borders is as simple as cutting out turf, bringing in soil, planting, and making a clean edge. This is the foundation to the future of a lovely, stunning landscape.
Containers are easy ways to create colour, impact and focal points in your yard. Grouped together, they can give you drama in areas that are difficult to grow anything. Groups of containers can also screen unsightly areas or create privacy on decks/patios, especially when using vertical plants such as cedars. There are numerous recipes for containers using a feature plant, accent plant, and a trailing plant (thrillers, fillers, and spillers).
Our ecosystems are suffering – we need to bring back our insect populations or we will be in serious trouble. Together, by including native plants, along with an understanding of making homes for our insects and pollinators, we can change this. If we each do this small part in our own yards, we will make a difference. Did you know that baby birds don’t eat seeds? They rely strictly on caterpillars.
Xeriscaping offers a unique sense of luxury because there is little necessity to water or weed. This style of landscaping offers texture and movement through different elements. An excellent choice for our climate here on the prairies.
Shrubs require much pruning, trimming, and sheering. By removing dead branches, cross over branches, and sheering leaf growth, an old ratty shrub can be transformed back to vigor and vitality. All plants need to be maintained to maximize their health and generate proper growth habit; therefore, it is imperative to trim and prune your trees and shrubs.
My name is Shelly and I have been operating a landscaping business in Saskatoon for the past 20 years. Let me evaluate your needs and together we can turn your outdoor living space into a welcome retreat.