MowingAround Landscaping has experienced their busiest February/March ever. The unusually mild weather has been one factor but the biggest factor is that we are being discovered!! Customers are finding out that we understand the soil and how to set it up to optimize the health of the plants. That combined with exceptional service, a friendly [...]
What is it? It is preparing your property for an event, for sale or to surprise your wife as a gift. MowingAround Landscaping, since its inception in 2000, has always received calls for cleanups or minor stagings but about two years ago that work went to another level. My bi-weekly Business Referral Team (BRT) has [...]
What happens in a lawn maintained with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides? As the title suggests, a chemical reaction. I recently attended an event sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society and carried out at Uvic. The speaker was Paul Tukey, a one time gardener now advocate against chemicals on lawns. Paul has started a business call [...]
Lot’s new at MowingAround Landscaping 2010. I started this company in 2003 and it has been an interesting journey. I started with a new truck, old trailer and used equipment. Each has a story; -The new truck was a dodge dakota, 6 cyl, 5 speed. Looked good and the price was right. It would be pulling [...]
It is February 2010 and it is a mild winter in Greater Victoria, B.C. The bulbs have started to pop and spring feels like it has arrived. It may even convince me of an early start to the season if it remains this mild until the end of February. February has a habit of playing [...]
There was a time in the distant past that I would roll up onto a landscape client’s property, see that the grass and plants were not doing that well, talk with a local gardening supplier, garden center, and try to figure out what the heck was going on. I would usually be told the plant was [...]
What an interesting month March/09 has been. The weather for Victoria, B.C. has not been unusually cold, we are just use to unusually warmer weather at this time of year. What has this meant for landscape maintenance and landscaping in general? Well, the year is starting out slower than it was last year but all [...]
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How fitting to be blogging about this subject in March/09 when it is just pouring rain in the beautiful but wet city of Victoria, B.C. What do I like and dislike about landscaping in the rain? Lots of both. I love being outside any time, rain or shine but I do not necessarily like working [...]
How about I answer that question! At the beginning of my landscape career I would attend a client’s property and they would ask me to add some plants here, move others over there, create a bed here, plant grass there. Time was limited so I would complete the request without suggesting to the client that a longer term vision be put [...]