For many families, the backyard is an active space used to spend time with kids, friends, and neighbors. In this case, an appropriate landscape plan would avoid rough surfaces for safety so the kids can use their roller skates, scooters, and skateboards.
Preparing new flower and vegetable beds is an important spring task. Clearing away unwanted debris and adding some compost or well-rotted manure to the soil will ensure a rich base for your summer time garden.
One of the issues surrounding the source of lawn problems is that so many share similar characteristics. For example, early signs of grub worm infestation simply look like the lawn needs to be watered. Only a proper and professional assessment can determine the exact problem.
Even if you have a larger company, that doesn’t mean that you aren’t trying to keep expenses low. A commercial landscaper understands this, and can work with your business to find the right plan that keeps your landscaping looking great and your costs low.
If you have garden beds on your commercial property, and they have become overcrowded, your landscaping contractor may decide to divide them. Plant dividing consists of dividing plant root balls and replanting them so that they are less crowded; it can also keep them from going into seasonal shock.
Creating a focal point with a fountain, flowing stream or sculpture adds interest to your front yard. You can make a beautiful sidewalk and add some statuary along to give your garden a tranquil edge.
When considering plants as part of your property's landscape, you might also need to include an element of hardscaping. For instance, if your property is on a hill, hardscaping can provide the barriers needed for your plants to be secure.
What are just a few products used to maintain a healthy organic lawn? Nutrients from fish emulsion, organic compost, seaweed and worm castings, beneficial fungi and bacteria to support soil health and vegetable products including neem and yucca oils for pest control.
In Japanese landscape design, water is a key element, whether it’s natural or man-made. Often inorganic objects are used to represent water, such as a creek bed of stones or a man-made bridge.
Over 50 percent of an average home's landscape is made up of lawn. Lawn care can be expensive and time consuming, and it requires a great deal of water, too. Some experts on "green" living recommend reducing lawn size in favor of hardy indigenous plants, shrubs, and trees.
Tired of having to aerate compacted soil every year? If so, switch to an organic lawn care program. Because it promotes the healthy growth of soil microbes and earthworms, these helpful critters do the work for you.
The right design strategy is widely considered the most important element of a commercial landscape. Commercial landscape components like shrubs, trees and hardscapes should enhance a building's architecture without drawing attention away from important features like signs.
Trees growing in suburban and rural locations can grow for decades or even a century or more. Trees in urban locations don't usually fare as well. Care to guess the lifespan of an average city tree? That would be 8 years or so.
No space is too small to have a Japanese inspired garden. Tsubo Niwa, are Japanese courtyard gardens and their design principles are ideal for small, modern spaces like patios or terraces. Due to a potential lack of sun, they often include plenty of shade tolerant plants.
Lawns should be watered in the early morning for about 15 minutes three days per week, depending on weather conditions. After a lawn application is made, wait 24 hours before watering the lawn. Don’t water at night, as this can lead to increased disease activity.
We realize that not every homeowner has a green thumb or the desire to spend all their free time working out in the yard. When it’s time to overhaul your landscaping design, we’re always available to take care of it for you.
Interestingly, a major theme and design principle in Japanese gardens and landscapes has to do with an emphasis on asymmetry and the use of odd numbered components (usually occurring in groupings of threes and fives). This comes from Taoist and Zen influences.
Do you know what aeration will do for your lawn? It opens up the soil, allowing air and water penetration into the root zone of the grass. This process loosens compacted soil and improves root development, therefore helping develop a stronger, more stress-resistant plants.
Ever wondered how much of the U.S. is covered with lawn? A lot. Some estimates place the overall acreage in the U.S. covered in grass at 21 million acres. And all those acres need to be mowed, cultivated and watered -- at least occasionally. Now, doesn't a more organic approach to lawn care make sense?
If you have standing water in your yard, or you live in an area that experiences heavy annual rainfall, a lush bog garden can be easily incorporated into your landscape design to make use of the extra water while preventing runoff and erosion.
The landscaping around your building, campus, or complex is the first thing that customers and clients see. Make sure that your landscaping always looks its best to make sure that your customers and clients get the right impression of your business.
Working on a beautiful lawn is a challenge; it needs plenty of attention to be its best. Treating your lawn to professional organic treatments is actually a better option for the long term, and gives you the same beautiful results.
While you may not necessarily care about having the best lawn on the block, you don’t want its appearance to detract from your home either. Rest assured that we’re always ready to work with you to create the perfect fertilization schedule for your home.
If your landscape is comprised of different microclimates (like a shady area as well as a sunny sloping location) choosing more than one type of lawn seed or blend may be a good idea.
Unfortunately, brutal area weather patterns could strip away much of your topsoil and destroy plants when they roll through town. If your lawn and landscape took a beating, let’s look for ways to restore your lawn’s beauty while strengthening it.
It’s best to water earlier in the day, so that water may evaporate effectively, which minimizes the growth of fungi. Your organic lawn care professional will explain the best times and frequency with which to water your lawn.
In a Japanese garden, plants will play a secondary role to the stones in the garden, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not important. Sometimes a garden will be designed to incorporate Japanese plants, and local plants are sometimes integrated into the design.