I found Bloomsday at the Vancouver Pollinator Festival. I've been searching for literal years for the right someones to help me reclaim my space: lovingly planted years ago with family who are now dead or gone, the property was overgrown completely, me overwhelmed (think Gertrude Jekyll meets Ken Druse meets the late great Joy Creek Nursery - then left to just grow for 5-10 years). I didn't want a "removal" or an "install," I wanted a long-term partnership with caring humans who would help me wrestle my space into a proper ecological safe haven and food forest I can actually handle - without clearcutting it all. Matt came out for the consult, and I learned so much just from that; he knew the uses for practically every plant here. He resonated with my vision, and made a plan that was right for me. Then, he, Rachel and Angel came out yesterday and dug in. Honestly, it was so nerve-wracking to open my space up and trust. I left for my day job while they were in the middle of pruning-weeding-everything-everywhere, got home after dark, then went out in my slippers and jams this morning, coffee in hand, to see what they'd done. What I beheld was like a gift, like my Garden Fairy Godmother had come and waved her wand all around my space. I literally teared up seeing the shrubs we agreed to keep carefully pruned, those slated for removal completely gone, invasives removed, and cuttings carefully laid out as mulch or to create new walkways. They added to my limb-bordered path, and added and raked in gravel from my pile to show the vision. They even collected the apples from the tree Matt pruned in a bucket for me. Whole mini bioregions of my garden are opened up now. I have gone from hopeless to thrilled. I'm ready to dream a beautiful future for this place, and my life, and this is a very, very big deal. I'll be enthusiastically hiring them back to continue this transformation, and I cannot wait. Will add photos shortly. read more