Leslieville front garden cleanup

A garden rescue in the Toronto's Leslieville neighbourhood

Is the word "rescue" too dramatic? Maybe, but this front garden needed some attention. Overrun with burdock, grass, thistle and violets, the front yard was out of place among the tidy front gardens on the east-end Toronto street.

Leslieville front garden cleanup before 

I asked the homeowner if she wanted to keep the variegated goutweed because it is an "effective" groundcover, to put it mildly. Very few weeds will try to grow among it so she decided to keep it.

So after weeding the front, we have this:

Leslieville front garden cleanup after

More "before" and "after" pictures, revealing a flagstone path!

Front garden clean up Leslieville before 

Front garden clean up Leslieville after

Leslieville front garden clean up before 

Leslieville front garden clean up after  

Front garden cleanup Leslieville before 

Front garden cleanup Leslieville after 

 Toronto Leslieville front garden clean up before

 Toronto Leslieville front garden clean up after