Permaculture with Pierre Duranleau

Up north in the country this weekend. Here's a beautiful example of a naturalized Knotweed plant (aka Giant Fleece plant - latin: Persicaria polymorpha), that I planted 5-6 years ago. This is a non-invasive species (NOT a Japanese Knotweed!) and attracts tons of indigenous pollinator friends, plus repels animals such as deer 🦌 and rabbits 🐇.

I found these fascinating creatures 🐜🐜🐜 milling about on a patio on a 🔥 summer day. Thousands of ants!

Scape the Heat! Pruning garlic scapes: what to look for and how to prune the scape.

Just completed a patio step re-installation. Combining old and new materials in the process. The steps revamp is part of an overall urban garden renovation project.

Different varieties of Hosta populate this piece of land in the city. I baptized it The Hosta Farm. The land could be used in a more productive way though.

Wild and cultivar raspberries, bleeding hearts, False spirea and black currants make up this tough team of plants grow on a rough piece of terrain.

Huge difference in growing time between bare root and potted bought and planted Black walnut trees.

Companion Planting Test Bed in the Laurentians. Includes Forget me Not, Highbush Blueberry, Coneflower and more.

Companion Planting Test Bed 2 in the Laurentians. Includes: Miscanthus grass, Blackberry, Coneflower, Forget me Not, Weigela, and more.

Haskap hedge, a Lilac and American Cranberry in the house.

Compact planting guild composed of Viburnum species, raspberry and more beneficial plants.

2nd harvest since early May of Shiitake mushrooms 🍄🍄🍄

Planting pollinator species and conifers in an urban garden context. Accent on the 2 Spruce cultivars.

Planting pollinator species in an urban garden context. Plants such as Yarrow, Mock orange and even Artichoke.. Correction: The Tulips are in fact Allium. Many thanks to Josh for pointing out the mistake.

This is an urban garden revamp project. The work involves soil/earth works, planting bed remodeling and transplanting of existing plants to other parts of the property.

Shiitake mushroom harvest in early May in a Laurentian location. These are basically rescue mushroom logs that weren't producing after they were initially inoculated 3 years ago - stacked on our city property. Out of desperation, I moved the logs up north in the Laurentians at a family property, and the Shiitake fruited last Spring, and now this May too. Never say never!

A recent Spring trek in the Laurentian woods; discovering swamp areas filled with patches of melting ice and snow, mosses, mushrooms and other surprises. The forest is waking up!

EMAIL: landwithpierre@gmail.com Planting Black Currant Cuttings. After cuttings were harvested from from black currant shrub stems & planted into pots, the cuttings were then transplanted a few months later into a temporary nursery bed, where the cuttings will Winter over until the following Spring. The goal is to nurse the cuttings until they reach the size of a small shrub for future use in other planting situations (e.g. for planting in fruit tree guilds or any other landscape and garden situation).

EMAIL: landwithpierre@gmail.com I discuss the transition from a former Permaculture services company partnership I was involved with, leading into my current Permaculture services project. As I walk through a very interesting and wonderful public park space, I reflect on the various situations, challenges and realities that eventually lead to the transition from the former partnership to the new project I've recently launched. It's all about learning from past experiences (positive and negative) and building upon those experiences to forge ahead with newly acquired wisdom and confidence. This is a longer form video of approximately 20 minutes; and I hope that some of the issues I brought forward here, resonate with experiences you may have encountered, and that in the very least can serve as wisdom for some of you who are thinking about entering a business partnership (no matter what type of business it is) or are involved in one already. Cheers, Pierre

EMAIL: landwithpierre@gmail.com Mapping out contour lines on the land. I made this water level tool in only a few hours and it works like a charm. Easy to build. Kudos to Seb for helping out and explaining how we arrive at obtaining the desired contour level.

Country location rock garden planting beds. Developing & enhancing rock garden beds with indigenous & naturalized species: Catmint, Echinacea, Lupin, Yarrow, Miscanthus, to name a few. Plates-bandes de style rocaille à la campagne. Développer et améliorer les plates-bandes de rocaille avec des espèces indigènes et naturalisées : népéta, échinacée, lupin, achillée millefeuille, miscanthus, pour n'en nommer que quelques-unes. Pierre 🌸🌻🌾

EMAIL: landwithpierre@gmail.com Haskap Hedge. Mixing 2 varieties for cross-pollinization: Berry blue and Indigo in this situation. Why not stack functions by planting berry shrubs to create a screen or hedge. Haskap (or Honeyberry) make perfect hedges and are easy to trim and maintain. Haskap shrubs happen to also be deep proof. So, quite an added element to add to your planting arsenal.

Country location rock garden planting beds. Developing & enhancing rock garden beds with indigenous & naturalized species: Catmint, Echinacea, Lupin, Yarrow, Miscanthus, to name a few. Plates-bandes de style rocaille à la campagne. Développer et améliorer les plates-bandes de rocaille avec des espèces indigènes et naturalisées : népéta, échinacée, lupin, achillée millefeuille, miscanthus, pour n'en nommer que quelques-unes. Pierre 🌸🌻🌾

EMAIL: landwithpierre@gmail.com Propagation technique: Transplanting Black Currant fruit shrub cuttings from a planting bed (where the cuttings Wintered over) into pots. How I personally go about doing this.

EMAIL: landwithpierre@gmail.com Mapping out contour lines on the land. I made this water level tool in only a few hours and it works like a charm. Easy to build. Kudos to Seb for helping out and explaining how we arrive at obtaining the desired contour level.