A Leslieville, Toronto Spring Garden Cleanup

A New Client, A Similar Job 

It's been a busy month so far with more spring cleanups on the way. This post covers a recent job back in a neighbourhood I often visit: Leslieville. The properties here are usually small in area and therefore easy for me to work by myself. 

I'll start with the cleanup in the backyard. As you can probably see in the pictures to follow, I pruned a lot of last season's growth:

Leslieville Back Garden Spring Cleanup Before

Leslieville Back Garden Spring Cleanup After 

Toronto Leslieville Back Garden Spring Cleanup Before 

Toronto Leslieville Back Garden Spring Cleanup After

Toronto Leslieville Garden Spring Cleanup After 

Leslieville Back Garden Spring Cleanup Before 

And in the front, I tidied up a very small bed:

Leslieville Front Garden Spring Cleanup Before

Leslieville Front Garden Spring Cleanup After 

Note the still small Colorado Blue Spruce to the right. I strongly recommended to the owner that this small tree need to be removed sooner than later. It's not a dwarf, You can easily imagine how massive this spruce will be. Simply the wrong tree for the wrong spot.

Leslieville Summer Front Garden Weeding

Summer 2019 Rolls On and the Weeds Follow in Step

After a relatively cold and wet May, it's truly feeling like summer with temperatures soaring into the mid-high 30s (Celsius) and humidex readings into the 40s this week! With higher temperatures and copious amounts of rain, the weeds naturally have exploded in growth. Which means many business requests for me. A virtuous circle as it were. 

Let's face it: few of us (myself included) want to be out in furnace-like conditions pulling or digging out little (and not so little) bits of unwanted vegetation when our summers here in Toronto are so short. I would be mortified to show you my backyard.

This post brings us back to, Leslieville, a neighbourhood I visit frequently in Toronto's east-end. I weed this client's front yard annually (yes, really, once a year!) It's very small but usually jammed pack full of weeds when I arrive.

Leslieville Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup Before 

Leslieville Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup After

Leslieville Summer Front Garden Cleanup Before

Leslieville Summer Front Garden Cleanup After 

I transplanted some extra common-as-nails variegated hostas  after removing the weedy grass, as shown above.

A variety of annual weeds fill the 
garden bed near the front edge

Leslieville Toronto Summer Front Garden Cleanup After 

Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup in Leslieville Before

Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup in Leslieville After

Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup in Leslieville Before

Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup in Leslieville After

Toronto Leslieville Summer Garden Cleanup Before

Toronto Leslieville Summer Garden Cleanup After

Leslieville Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup Before

Leslieville Toronto Summer Garden Cleanup After 

I recommended to the client that she place some mulch down to reduce the amount of grass and other wind-borne weed seedlings from popping up again. If you ask me, one of the top five "worst" weeds I encounter is grass or turf growing in flower beds. Strangely, no one around this house is growing a lawn (too many trees, too small a frontage) so it's a bit of mystery where the grass seeds are coming from!