Emmanuelle Ares - ecological landscaping, gardening and horticulture coach

:: Coaching ::

Do it once, do it right !

No matter how big or small your project is, we will guide you through your decisions and choices, put you in touch with contractors and coach you through the season or with your projects.

Group or one-on-one coaching gives you the answers to all your gardening questions while you actually get the work done.

We offer different coaching packages to suit your personal needs, including at-home-consulting, estimates and project or season accompanying if needed. We offer sketched plans, plants lists, or a tasks schedule to give you back the pleasure to work on your lawn with less worries.

Whether you plan a hedge, a vegetable garden, a herb patch, larger and colorful flower beds, try to personalize an existing garden or naturalize wasteland, we can help you.

Good personalized advices particular to your situation can help you save hundreds or thousands of dollars on your landscape project and help you go from here :

to there:

For more info contact us at info (@) emmanuelleares (.) com

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:: Pruning ::

Pruning shrubs, fruit trees, deciduous or evergreen hedges can be an easy job with basic knowledge.

We offer complete pruning service, coaching or tutorials for :

Ecological and species-respectful pruning

Cedar hedge pruning

Fruit trees pruning

Rejuvenation of trees and shrubs

For more info contact us at info (@) emmanuelleares (.) com

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:: Ecological lawn care ::

What is ecological lawn care ? it's the way to get a green, stress-free, healthy grass throughout the season. It's a lawn you care for only when it needs it and on which you put less effort for a better result. Tempting ?

Add compost

Leave the grass cuts

Raise the cutting blade at minimum 3 in

Add limestone and natural fertilizer when needed

Aerate

Seed every year or so

Diversify species and varieties

Water more, but less often

Less mowing !!!

Green grass longer !!!

Healthy lawn !!!

Ecological lawn and grass !!!

For more info contact us at info (@) emmanuelleares (.) com

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:: Emmanuelle Arès ::

Emmanuelle Ares is a landscape and garden coach, horticulture columnist and lecturer. She has a degree in agronomy from Laval University and McGill University and became interested in ornamental and garden horticulture 10 years ago.

She is reknown for her dynamism her creativity and her professionalism. Her clients appreciate her ability to explain. show and teach.

Her talents in communication has been recognized by the Agrifood Communicators and Writers Association (ACRA) and by the Canadian Business Press Association (Kenneth R. Wilson Award). Emmanuelle Ares writes monthly an horticulture column in a farm business magazine, Le Coopérateur agricole. You might have read other of her articles in L’Actualité, Le Bulletin des Agriculteurs and Le producteur de lait québécois.

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LINKS AND INTERESTING WEBSITES

Ecological gardening books (french)

Hydro-seeding : Goodbye Turf

Larry Hodgson, the lazy gardener

Equiterre, ecological lawn care, Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides

Canadian Business Press

Stephane Peyronin, Coach en jardinage, France (french !)

Kenneth R. Wilson Award

Tree Pruning well done (french)

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