Reviews

Heather at Perennial Pleasures is our go-to for our garden design, implementation, and maintenance.  Her creative vision has transformed our yard from bleak and plain to a textured, colourful landscape.  We appreciate how Heather uses native species and natural means to invite birds and butterflies and minimize pests.  She is also very considerate of not wasting plants: Heather is resourceful and takes the time to save plants that need dividing; this helps both her clients and the environment. We are so fortunate to have Heather bring her passion to our landscape.

Inspired by the concept of a pollinators’ garden, to appeal to our young children and our love of nature, Heather transformed our front yard from a small plain strip of lawn into a beautiful oasis, with year-round interest and plantings that attract bees, hummingbirds and butterflies.  To increase privacy from the street, she contoured the sloping yard vertically and carefully selected trees, shrubs and plants to provide visual interest in the natural sight-lines.  The arbour she designed, provides an impressive entry-way and focal point to the garden.  Heather’s design creativity also included a dry pond to solve the challenge of a naturally damp shady area.  We are very proud of the unique garden Heather created for us and love what it has done to enhance the beauty of our home and neighborhood

Tired of grass or lawn mowers? Chafer Beetles got you down? Heather helped us find a whole new approach with both hard and soft landscape features, and seasonally evolving surprises. A perennial ground cover garden is a thing of beauty and fascination as flowers bloom, grasses entertain, and hordes of busy bees come and go. While enjoying our new front garden, we never fail to get comments and compliments from passing neighbours, no matter the season. Heather has kept up her contact with us, a garden professional and a new friend. Highly recommended.

Heather has transformed our garden into a beautiful welcoming, easily maintained environment that welcomes many of our local birds and butterflies.  We are happy knowing these wild creatures can enjoy our garden without risk of pesticide poisoning!   It was not just our garden that has been transformed, but also our attitude towards gardening. We learned that – when you do it right the first time – the maintenance is so much easier.