Gardening Services in Winnipeg, MB

Winnipeg’s gardening season is short. The two best windows are mid-May through June (after the last frost, when the ground is workable) and late August through September (cooler temperatures, plants establish before winter). We book up fast for both windows — if you’re thinking about a spring install, get on the schedule by March or April. Fall installs should be locked in by July.

Most of our garden projects land between $1,000 and $10,000. A small bed refresh with new mulch and a few perennials starts on the low end. A full front-yard rebuild — tearing out old cedars, re-edging the beds, laying decorative rock, and planting new shrubs — lands in the middle to upper end. Every yard is different, so we always come out, look at it in person, and quote you a fixed price before any work starts.

Yes — tear-out is one of the most common parts of the job. A lot of Winnipeg homes still have overgrown cedars, junipers, or tired shrubs from the ’70s and ’80s. We pull them out, clean up the roots, amend the soil, and rebuild the bed from there. For larger trees or hazardous removals we’ll refer you to a certified arborist, but most front-yard cedars and shrubs are well within what D&J handles directly.

For most beds we recommend natural cedar or hardwood mulch at a 2–3 inch depth — it suppresses weeds, holds moisture through Winnipeg’s dry summers, and breaks down to feed the soil over time. Dyed mulches (black, brown, red) hold colour longer and are popular for high-visibility front beds. If you want a once-and-done finish that won’t need topping up every year, decorative rock over weed barrier is the better call.

Stages are fine — in fact, that’s how a lot of our customers approach bigger projects. We can plan the whole yard up front, then tackle it over two or three seasons: front beds this year, side yard next year, back yard the year after. Spreading the work lets you budget realistically and see how each phase looks before committing to the next. Just let us know your end goal at the first estimate so we can sequence the work in a way that makes sense.

We focus on softscape — garden beds, mulch, perennials, shrubs, edging, and decorative rock. Hardscape work like patios, retaining walls, paving stone, and brick is a different trade with its own equipment and specialists. If your project mixes both, we can handle the planting and bed work and refer you to a hardscape partner we trust for the structural side.

Most D&J projects land in the $1,000–$10,000 refresh range — new beds, plantings, mulch, edging, and tear-out of tired shrubs. For larger design-build projects, full grading work, or anything that needs an excavator on site for days, we’ll point you toward a firm set up for that scale of work.