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Tips To Make Your Holiday Season Sustainable, from Aden Earthworks




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If you saw our Booth at the PM Expo
(Property Management Expo)
then you’ll know our ability to decorate
with ecology in mind.


As we all move towards sustainable products
during the rest of the year, let’s remember,
that the winter holidays are not an reason to lax
in our responsible intentions. In fact, just by thinking ahead,
it’s easy to feel good about the way you consume
during family celebrations. Here are some tips to help.




Be organized.

Think Ahead.


Sit down with a calendar and give yourself dates
for getting things done. It will make a manic month more sane,
reduce the amount you need to drive, and reduce the amount
you need to spend in both time and money; leaving more time
to be with family and friends.






 

Bee’s Wax Candles

and Organic Oils

You don’t necessarily need to rely on petroleum products
for your candles and burning oils. Seek out those products
made with natural products for your festival of lights.
You’ll find that bee wax candles, although more expensive,
burn longer so are actually a savings, and natural lamp oils,
made from plants can have beautiful sent. 

Long before we learned how to use petroleum oil…
the traditional materials were gentle and sustainable.
You’ll be amazed how good an Olive Oil Lamp
will make your home smell.





 

Recycled Paper in

Holiday Cards

and Wrapping

As the world goes more ‘green’, we have more options
during the holidays. There’s no exuse anymore
not to be buying green for wrapping.




 




Consider

Gift Bags!

As opposed to wrapping paper, bags can be used again
and again, from holiday to holiday.





 

Give

Green Gifts!


A simple gesture that makes those who receive feel
as responsible as you do for giving them.

How about a Garden Maintenance Gift Certificate? 
Now that’s a last minute giving idea. Pick it up imediately!


Ask For An

Aden Earthworks

Gift Certificate
 



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Organic Potpourri 

Just as you can bring in bouquets from the garden,
you can just as easily fill a bowl with natural fragrance.
Try adding some citrus peal, and herbs from the kitchen as well. 







Get Help With

The Housework


If you haven’t got one already,
the holiday season is a good time for a cleaning service.
If you do have one, you may want to book them
for an extra visit well before or after the holidays. 







Involve the kids

They can help — everything from decorating to cooking. 





 

Get Help With

The Outdoors

From Urns to Cleanup

Need help with the lights? 
Call Aden Earthworks.

Need winter clean up? 
Call Aden Earthworks. 

Would you like some festive Evergreen Urns
to liven your property?

That’s one of our specialities.









Happy Holiday Wishes from


Aden Earthworks

Quality you see. Service you trust.



416-925-ADEN

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Top 5 Most Creative “Country” Elements for your Winter Landscape




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As Toronto celebrates The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair,
we’d like to show you some ways we help our clients
bring rural elements to their urban landscapes during Winter.

Our TOP 5 MOST CREATIVE Suggestions

1. Split-Rail fences
A rural and historic element.

split rail fence

Once this country was covered in these fences.
Traditionally made with hand axes, from small straight trees,
these were the fences that kept livestock from roaming
and populated the Canadian wilderness of our region.

Ask Aden Decks and Fences about these historical elements
which add a sense of place and history to any landscape.

We can create these for your property…
bark-on, bark-off, hand-hewn,
or even pressure treated
to last for decades.



2. Naturalized Ponds
For wildlife, children, and a beautiful view.

natural pond

Ponds bring year round pleasure to the visitors of your landscape.
Utilizing the natural contours of the property we’re working with,
The Aden Earthworkers are skilled at creating water-features
that look like they were always there. There are many ways to do this,
including solutions as affordable as laying a rubber lining into an existing gully,
resulting in an area that naturally catches the water that flows through it.

These ‘Natural’ water features can be extremely low maintenance,
especially when the edges are planted with majestic rushes and flowering iris.
Unlike more formal or smaller water features,
a large naturalized pond in winter doubles as a great place
to unleash the kids on Ice Skates!




3. Hand-laid Dry Stone Retaining Walls
Hand Artisanry bring rustic ambiance

dry stone wall

The tradition of laying “dry” stone by hand into walls
that sculpt the landscape is an ancient one.  
“Dry Stone” is a term that means Without Mortar.
At Aden Earthworks we have staff on call
who are experienced in this lost-art being revived.
A well-laid stone wall, created by a mason who knows how,
needs no mortar, and can last for hundreds of years.

Hand-laid Dry Stone Walls of Aden Earthworks
will continue far beyond our lifetimes.

These amazing Dry Stone structures can be brought
to heights of whimsy and character that will have all the neighbours talking
and will draw much attention to your property.

Look at what’s possible…
In the picture below is a Dry Stone Bridge
built during Canada’s first Rocktoberfest in 2004 at Port Hope Ontario.

The Springdale Bridge




4. Old Farm Machinery
For the larger properties to create interest in all weather.

old farm machinery landscape garden

At Aden Earthworks we love sourcing custom elements for
small and large, residential and commercial landscapes.

Old Farm Machinery like plows, tractors, and buggies
can be found at auctions and are an alternative to garden sculpture
for those who love history and antiques.



5. Landscape Feature Lighting
Go beyond Holiday String Lights and create a Winter Wonderland



Country lanterns are an inexpensive way to bring a ‘Country’
and antique feel to your drive or walkway.



By strategically lighting broad areas,
we can accent the most beautiful and plentiful
resource available to any Ontario gardener…
SNOW.

Ask about our Solar Powered Landscape Lighting options.



Aden Earthworks

Quality you see.
Service you trust.



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Aden Earthworks Fall Newsletter

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Container Plantings!
 container plantings and urns

Once they’re past their prime, you’ll need to have your
containers and pots looked after this month.



Consider a fresh planting to celbrate the new season!
Ornamental Kale is a favourite 
that will last beautifully well into the winter.

Pink and White Ornamental Kale



Perennial Plant Maintenance
Ignore what the other landscapers tell you.
Don’t be in a great rush to cut back all your perennials early!
 
fall grasses and perennial plants

Seed heads and foliage that’s coloring up can be beautiful,
and the seeds are food for migrating birds.
Ask Aden Earthworks to cut back plants that are
looking past their prime.



Late Season Gaps
 If you have too little color in the garden now,
it’s time to add more for fall. 




There are many flowers to enjoy over the next few months.

Asters are just one example.
aster flowers



Dividing Perennials
 Plants like peonies and irises can be split in many parts
and spread accross your property.

dividing irises

This is a great cost-saving measure that we always provide 
when asked by our clients; so please do!
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Removing Spent Annuals

If you’re on one of our maintenance packages well be taking
care of this for you right now. 


 

The most fun item on the adgenda…

Pick Out Your Bulbs For Next Spring

The highly desired black tulip.

Now is the time to be planting bulbs for spring.
If you don’t want us to be having all the fun, 
as us to include you in the choices for your property
and look forward to the spring show througout the winter!


Large Grape Hyacinth
Forelock
The unusual Forelock, a spring bulb flower.

These tips brought to you by the company that’s
making your city
greener every day of the year!

Aden Earthworks



Have a look at one of our
recent design and installation projects
.

The extraordinary granite accented rooftop garden for…



A massive project of construction
and landscape design.
A condo, 2nd floor rooftop garden on Lakeshore and Bathurst.
Featuring, Granite Masonry, Grasses, Sedums and more.
Right in the downtown core of Toronto!



Transforming this courtyard space into a 
whimsical geometric fantasm.

Aden Earthworkers hard at work!

Large-scale Construction. 
Hands-on Quality.
Always.

Aden Earthworks construction

Contact us now for your
fall clean-up,
planting,
and construction projects!

Commercial and Residential.

Quality you see.
Service you trust.

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SPRINGING YOUR GARDENS OF ADEN INTO SUMMER

grow 


Business is GROWING.
Our crews have been busy this spring!

Aden Earthworks Toronto Landscape

We’ve hustled to plant all our new
client’s properties for summer.

Aden Earthworks crew, Toronto GTA Landscape Maintenance,  Construction and Design

Call us now for last minute plantings for summer colour!
Now is the time to plan hardscape or construction.
Plan for the season now. Call us!

construction landscape maintenance Toronto

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Custom Organic

Fertilizer Mixes


Aden Earthworks has been an organic
landscape company since long before the
City of Toronto banned all herbicide and pesticide
use within the GTA.

We are forward thinkers!

organic-fertilizer-Toronto-landscape


Our history and dedication tells you
that we know what we’re doing!

OUR PROMISES…

Safe, Healthy Environments
for your children, pets, and community. 
Lower Maintenance Fees from our expert Planning!
Landscapes that grow more beautiful with time, naturally.


Cherry-blossoms-Toronto-Landscape



Organic soil maintenance depends on the
micro-organisms that live naturally in your soil.  

Our competitors don’t understand how to cultivate
HEALTHY SOIL
WE DO

 
Applications of our fertilizer mixes
can include,
potash,
fish,
bonemeal,
bloodmeal,
kelp, 
minneral powders,
manure tea,

and for depleted soils,
our favourite secret weapon…
 mychorrhizal fungi !

We use a fungus product
which helps build the natural symbiotic
relationship with your plants root systems
and the organisms in the ground, increasing your
plants ability to use nutrients naturally occurring;
things as available as the nitrogen in rain!

This and a few other secrets
is how we work our magic.

Our knowledge of organics

and soil ecology,

saves you money

and shows vibrant results.

 
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Stocked Full!


We’ve had such a gain in business this spring,
that we’ve resorted to stocking plants
in the office hallways!

Aden Earthworks Bird Of Paradise in the hall waiting for Landscape Toronto Gardens
These giant tropical Bird Of Paradise plants
have been ordered by one of our
lucky residential customers.
They await planting and come July,
will bud flowers like this…

Bird-Of-Paradise-landscape-toronto   It’s not easy to grow tropicals like this
in our Northern climate.
Feature plants like the Bird of Paradise
can be an extraordinary addition
to your landscape
to wow your visitors. 
 
If you’d like a…

“TROPICAL”

feel for your outdoor landscape,
ask us what our creative designers
can do for you.

There are many ways to use hardy plants,
arranged in designs reminiscent
of a lush tropical setting,
to bring a lush, moist, warm tropical feeling
to your garden when in actual fact,
they are hardy or even native plants!

Look at this lush green landscape designed
with sturdy strong ferns
natural to Toronto’s wild areas.


Fern-landscape-Toronto





 


Planter Design for

Balconies & Decks


Now is the time! It’s the perfect weather to plan container
gardens for your residential and commercial spaces.

Still deciding who to call? 
Look what we won…


Aden Earthworks award Toronto Landscape




   

Thanks for

Your Support :) 

 
Call us with any questions you may have!  

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We’re making your city greener every day!

Earthy News this May from Aden



Aden Earthworks
thank you to
The Green Living Show!

Aden Earthwork’s Exhibition at The Green Living Show.

Aden Earthworks at The Green Living Show Torotno

 

The Green Living Show in Toronto, was a huge success and keeps getting better every year.

It’s an exhibition for those of us who strive for sustainable practice in our enterprises.

Aden Earthworks was there yet again, showcasing our environmental ethics and our green solutions.

Our booth was very popular as usual…
and often remarked upon as
“smelling the best in the show”.

Thank you to the organizers of The Green Living Show for putting on such a worthwhile event.

We connected with many new clients who want their properties designed and maintained with ecology in mind.

 

 




What design trend are our clients requesting?
Living Habitat For Your Property

Our customers want their Gardens Of Aden to be full of life!
  butterfly garden

Aden Earthworks Designers understand the birds and bees.

Bringing a habitat, to your garden, is easy for us! 
We know what we’re doing in the GTA environment.

Children, love a garden that is a home for wildlife.
It’s a valuable experience in their development and connects them to the natural world in a way that is personal.  A lively garden full of bugs and birds is one of the best ways to create this enriching experience for your children.

By choosing ‘attractor’ showcase plants we can design to provide food for many critters… even bats!

For-instance by planting just one plant, The Butterfly Bush: (Buddleja) 
in your landscape we can bring Butterflies, Humming Birds, Songbirds, and Bees.

Butterfly Bush with Butterflies!


Pictures (cc) from http://ThePlantEncyclopedia.org

To bring your backyard habitat alive,
ask us about our
Wooden Pergolas for flowering vines loved by humming birds,  
Summer Planters full of blossoms for bees,
Native Plantscapes,
Green Roofs and Green Walls
and Eco-friendly Lawn Care

This is what will take your property to even the next level of ecological stewardship and you will bennefit from the natural, low-maintenance, cost-saving solutions a garden of this type can provide.

Call for a consultation from an Expert Earthworker.

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Another Cost-Saving Aden Green Solution:
Toughen Your Turf. With Clover!
and organic spot weed control

A Clover Lawn
An old fashioned and traditional practice, back in fashion. Clover Lawns.



“My lawn wears bare patches in high traffic areas.”


  We offer several solutiuons,

The Aden Clover / Grass / Mix!


Organic Spot Weed Control & Fertilizer.


Permiable Pavers, a living walkway. 



Clover is a deep green, low-growing, extremely robust plant, more resistant to drought and foot traffic than grass. When added to high-traffic turf, it keeps those unsightly “paths” green and growing. Great for playing feilds. IN-FACT clover is a legume, and actually fixes nitrogen into your lawn’s soil making the intermingling grass healthier. This practice of mixing clover with estate and sport fields has been practiced traditionally in Europe since since the beggining of mowed lawns. This is something we recently forgot in North America and is available to your property in Toronto through Aden Earthworks. We create the perfect mix for the problem spots of your lawns, playfields, and commercial turf.

Aden Earthworks can also arrange to expertly maintain your high traffic grass turf, with the best Organic (Fiesta) Weed Control available on the market, combined with an organic power feed mix to keep the grass vigorous under heavy foot traffic.

Permiable Pavers

You’ve probalby noticed the driveways and walkways that are a grid of pavers and grass. Aden has much experience in installing such construction. These systems work and are beautiful.  High traffic walkways and driveway can be mowed just as any lawn can.

Permeable Pavers






Ask us about our

Lawn Maintenance Packages



Lawn Maintenance Agreements to suit your needs:
weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or seasonal, including,
• Mowing
• Cultivation / Edging
• Debris Removal

• Horticulturist Expert Assessments


lawn


Call us with any questions you may have!  

416 - 925 - ADEN

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We’re making your city greener every day!


Toughen your lawn.

Want to increase the durability of your turf.  Ask us to seed Clover in your turf. It naturally adds nitrogen=greener & stronger. It’s a sustainable solution for both residential and commercial properties. 

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New photos on the Aden Earthworks Featured Gardens Slideshow... ›

You've seen our Vertical Gardens... our Green Roofs... our Hydroponic Towers. Now call us to mow your lawn. We do that too! ›

Photos from Aden Earthwork’s Exhibition at Canada Blooms, our nation’s largest flower and garden show.

Theme: ‘Recurrence’ designed by Aden Earthworker, Deborah Vivas Marfisi. The rhythm of history: ideas lost and recovered, invented and re-invented, destroyed and rebuilt. The columnar towers of hydroponics resting in a pond bed are inspired by the recent resurgence of hydroponic agriculture and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. 

*Winner of Outstanding Use Of Interior Plants.

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