Revealing Potential for a Toronto Pollinator Garden?
It seems that with every garden cleanup ("rescue" is a better word for this post as you'll see later) I complete, that question comes to mind. It was certainly the case with this project I finished for a client in the central Toronto area of Little Italy/Palmerston. The backyard garden bed was hidden by weeds, Virginia Creeper and an overgrown rose but once I tidied up things, I easily imagined the garden full of colour and life.
But here are some "before" pictures showing the overgrown garden bed and lawn:
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| Toronto Backyard Garden Cleanup Before in Palmerston |
Afterwards....
And here are some "after" pictures, post weeding and pruning:
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| Little Italy Toronto Backyard Garden Cleanup After |
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| Little Italy Toronto Backyard Garden Cleanup After |
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| Toronto Backyard Garden Cleanup After in Little Italy |
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| Toronto Backyard Garden Cleanup After in Little Italy |
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| Toronto Backyard Garden Cleanup After in Little Italy |
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| Toronto Backyard Garden Cleanup After in Palmerston |
The bed is quite deep in certain areas so there's potential (that word again) to fill this bed with many flower-bearing native and non-native perennials and shrubs, given it faces south and east and receives full sun for part of the day.
Alas, it's a rental property (which may explain the state of things before I was hired) and the odds that weeds will reappear and re-establish are high. But I've given the owner and tenants a blank slate so the ball is in their court, to mix metaphors.
