Canada's Local Gardener Volume 2 Issue 2

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This landscape leaves plenty of room for greenery among the stones.

Multiple levels leads to a walkout basement.

Landscaping 2020 with Covid-19 By Keith Lemkey

T

o say that 2020 has been a different year, would have to be an understatement. At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the future of anything green looked pretty dismal, with little promise for the 2020 season, with greenhouses and nurseries taking the brunt of it. But within a few short months, a resolve had been brought forward that demonstrated we (anything green) were an “essential service”. This was great news for everyone in the green industry . . . or was it? It soon became obvious, no one was going anywhere for holidays in the near future, so many homeowners decided to invest into some form of home renovation. Soon back yard renovations topped the to-do lists of many homeowners. Whether that improvement was renovating a dilapidated old deck or rebuilding a falling down fence, adding a new patio, investing into a new lifestyle like adding a pool, maybe a new outdoor kitchen, barbeque area, cabanas

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