Tom Cavan
STAYCATION
During my 50+ years in the industry, I have witnessed countless transformations and adaptations of the landscape and the significant role...
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
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Tom Cavan
- Feb 9
- 3 min
Welcome... Entrances that Invite
When I drive around and observe the multitude and variations of architecture these days I am dumbfounded at the disconnect between the...
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Tom Cavan
- Jan 13
- 3 min
How to Select a Plant
The inspiration for this blog comes from a recent trip to Portugal. We stayed at a vineyard in the Douro Valley and this is the view from...
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Tom Cavan
- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
Teach your children well
Climate change? more like climate catastrophe and what future world will our children's children inherit? When we decided to have...
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Tom Cavan
- Mar 4, 2022
- 3 min
Nature's Way
Along my horticultural journey, many plant species have crossed my path. There was a point while operating the garden centre in Erin that...
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Tom Cavan
- Feb 16, 2022
- 4 min
HANDLE WITH CARE
When I first began horticultural commerce (1979) I was like a kid in a candy store fingering through nursery and seed catalouges...
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Tom Cavan
- Feb 13, 2022
- 3 min
Lifescaping
Landscaping has taken on a whole new perspective since the start of the pandemic BC (before covid) numerous backyard landscapes were...
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Tom Cavan
- Dec 3, 2021
- 4 min
The Tree of Forgiveness
If it weren't for the people... Earth would be an engineers paradise. -Kurt Vonnegut And if it were not for the trees there would be no...
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Tom Cavan
- Nov 9, 2021
- 3 min
Family Tree
I recently read a great book by Dr. Suzanne Simard* called "Finding the Mother Tree" Her story begins with her family tree of foresters...
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Tom Cavan
- May 28, 2021
- 3 min
Inspired by Time
In the beginning, when I first started designing and installing landscapes I was and always have been an advocate of resilient natural...
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Tom Cavan
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
FOOD FOR THOUGHT What is fertilizer?
If you had a choice between a fresh Orange and a vitamin C capsule which would you choose? The Oxford dictionary defines fertilizer as :...
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Tom Cavan
- Feb 6, 2021
- 5 min
Turfgrass:time to rethink the lawn
My education in turfgrass came very early in life, at the ripe age 6-1/2 yrs I was promoted from lawn rake to a push mower to cut a farm...
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Tom Cavan
- Jan 12, 2021
- 3 min
Look Who's Watching
Recalling one of our most interesting opportunities and natural transformations of landscaping as I reviewed the photographs searching...
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Tom Cavan
- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min
2020 VISION...not so clear after all
When I reflect on the past year I transport myself back to January 2020 BC (before covid19) as 2019 had been another great year in all...
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Tom Cavan
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
1ST SIGNS OF SPRING 2020
Last weekend on a bright sunny cool morning I went harvesting native wild leeks (some 2,000 sqft!) at the back of our wooded property as...
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Tom Cavan
- May 4, 2020
- 4 min
SPRING PRUNING
Canadian gardeners for the most part are a very resilient bunch. Couped up all winter staring at the drifts of snow and the rabbit tracks...
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Tom Cavan
- Apr 9, 2020
- 3 min
PRUNING THE EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULES : plants reveal the truth
So as I recommended in the 1st pruning blog was remove dead wood, weak and inside crossing branches and you are done basic pruning...
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Tom Cavan
- Mar 31, 2020
- 4 min
PRUNING PROTCOL As I have matured and evovled as both plantsman and a Landscape Designer...........
Of all that I have learned and passed on to my clients, nothing has been more important than telling people how to prune woody plants....
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Tom Cavan
- Mar 6, 2020
- 3 min
TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
Biomicry: designs that mimic, replicate, mirror imagine nature with outdoor design principles and sustainable landscapes. Biophilic:...
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Tom Cavan
- Feb 3, 2020
- 3 min
JUST ADD WATER
Is there any element you can add to your landscape more tranquil, more captivating then the element: water? ......., sound, motion,...
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