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The North Vancouver rest
dent has owned the company
tor tive years this scason and in
that time he’s found himself
coming up with solutions to
all sorts of design dilemmas.

“Drainage problems.
Everywhere | go, people have
drainage problems,” he said of
the mest common challenge
facing, homeowners on the
wet North Shure.

He helps his clients choose
shrubs and trees suitable for
the light and soil conditions of
their property, works around
the problems presented by
steep slopes, and many times
finds himself acting as a con-
sultant to homeowners who
wish to update their property
and aren't sure where to
begin.

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DRIVER worked with the client to create raised beds,

THE owner of this house-side garden was unhappy with it. The growing plants and a tiered stone pathway which soived the
taited to mask the concrete wall and it suffered from drainage problems. drainage problem.

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