Kootenay Landscape has decades worth of local experience
Kootenay Landscape provides year-round service to commercial and residential properties throughout the East Kootenay
Kootenay Landscape’s new bucket truck with chipper on the back. — Photo courtesy Kootenay Landscape
Kootenay Landscape provides a wide range of outdoor services to keep lawns, shrubs and trees healthy and strong. The company provides landscape and flower bed maintenance, shrub and tree pruning, and fertilizer and weed control programs. Dwayne Thompson, president of Kootenay Landscape, has a professional team of two certified aborists and dozens of landscape specialists to cover the needs of any commercial or residential property. Lawn maintenance includes mowing, core aeration and dethatching.
On the commercial property side of the business, Kootenay Landscape works with property management companies to maintain the landscape around apartments, condos and resort properties. Kootenay Landscape has a new bucket truck and chipper that will accommodate large trees and shrubs. The truck allows aborists to easily and swiftly prune trees or remove diseased and dying trees.
Kootenay Landscape also offers irrigation maintenance, service and repairs, winterizing and spring startups and irrigation installs. Irrigation specialists have fully stocked trucks and the diagnostic skills to quickly do repairs on the spot.
A couple of new services Kootenay Landscape delivers to customers are hydraseeding and dust control.
The company can hydroseed up to 20,000 square feet for residential and small commercial properties. Hydroseeding “can generally be half the cost of laying down sod,” said Thompson. “Grass seed that germinates in the soil will be stronger, and resist disease and fungus better than if you put sod down.”
“The other thing we've started to do is dust control for acreage driveways and small industrial lots,” said Thompson. Kootenay Landscape uses calcium chloride, which is the same product used during winter for liquid de-icers. Kootenay Landscape lays down the product once per year after the rainy season, usually after mid-June.
The Kootenay Landscape service area includes the Cranbrook-Kimberley region as well as west to Creston, east to Fernie and Sparwood, and north to Invermere and Radium Hot Springs.