GARDEN PARTY
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Friesen highly recommends booking a
consultation with a designer or landscaper
who can draw up a plan, even if you're going
to do a lot of the work yourself. The local
garden centre is a great place to seek advice,
or visit the Manitoba Nursery Landscape
Association's website (mbnla.com) for a list of
certified pros.
You might want to consider hiring experts to
tackle building projects like decks, gazebos
and patios. But when it comes to lawn and
garden care, you don't need any special
skills — go ahead and get your hands dirty.
Soil work and planting are therapeutic and
uncomplicated if you consider this one rule
of green thumbing:
"One third of your yard should be annuals,
one third should be perennials and one third
should be shrubs," says Friesen.
"The annuals give you that bright colour
throughout the summer and you can change
it each year. The perennials give you your
season of blooms, so you can have action
happening in spring and fall. And then the
shrubs are a good background."
Beyond that, anything goes when it comes to
gardening. Friesen says there's nothing worse
than a yard consisting solely of grass or
gravel. These days we have a lot more time
to stop and smell the roses, so why not plant
more of them?
Flowers displayed in pots or beds near the
front door serve as a colourful welcome
mat for your home, and they attract bees,
butterflies and other many-legged friends.
ONE THIRD OF YOUR
YARD SHOULD BE
ANNUALS, ONE
THIRD SHOULD BE
PERENNIALS AND
ONE THIRD SHOULD
BE SHRUBS.
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