Gardening
Understanding What Makes the Best Fertilizer for Your Shrubs
Lovers of low-maintenance landscaping love shrubs because they are precisely that: low maintenance. Even so, they sometimes still need shrub fertilizer to fully reach their potential and stay as healthy as possible. Shrubs in landscaping often grow under stressful conditions and in environments outside of one natural to them. Proper fertilization accounts for these conditions…
Read MoreAllergy-Free Landscaping to Make Your Garden Beautiful
When most of us think of landscaping, we tend to picture colorful plants, trees and flowers vibrantly bursting from the ground. We think of their beauty and their fragrance and the way they add so much life to a property. For those of us with allergies, we also think of the pollen and how our…
Read MoreExecutive’s Holistic Approach to Landscaping Ecology
Taking the Holistic Approach to Landscaping There’s been a major shift in the past few years to living holistically, removing the barriers between certain aspects of life like health and beauty, mind and body to create a deeper connection for them all and achieve a better-balanced way of living. Interestingly enough, that “holistic” way of…
Read MoreLandscaping Tips for January and February
Once in awhile in January, the warm weather starts to poke its head out, which makes it the perfect time to do a few things around the yard that will start to get it in shape for the seasons ahead. A landscaping professional will be extremely helpful in this, and the team at Executive Landscaping,…
Read MoreExecutive Decorating for the Christmas Season
Ho Ho Holiday Landscapes We don’t all live in areas of the country that seem to decorate themselves for the season with blankets of snow and foliage that turns magnificent hues that are like firelight in their tones of reds and golds. In Northwest Florida especially, the fall and winter seasons come and go with…
Read MoreWinter Landscaping Tips for Florida
How to Keep Winter’s Harshness from Claiming Your Landscape While Florida does not have severe winter weather, winter can come with its fair share of harsh factors – and those chilly temps do more than make you want to escape the cold. They also have the potential to wreak havoc on your landscape unless you…
Read MoreAvoid These 4 Poisonous Plants That May Lurk in Your Yard
Residing in Florida allows you to enjoy the landscape surrounding your house throughout the year. Shrubs, flowers, green grass and other natural amenities can beautify your property. However, there could be hidden dangers lurking between some of your plants. Poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac and wild parsnips are poisonous plants that you want to…
Read MoreSimplified Gardening: How to Grow Succulents
If you’ve ever fancied yourself a gardener only to find out that your green thumb seems to be malfunctioning, succulent plants might be a dream come true. Much like cacti, succulents are pretty tolerant of neglect, which means that growing succulents doesn’t require nearly as much work as most plants do. Another pro in the…
Read MorePruning Crepe Myrtles Without Committing Crepe Murder
Pruning Crepe Myrtles Without Committing Crepe Murder It’s pretty easy to mentally lump all plants into one category as “green things that require pruning,” but the crepe myrtle is a horse of an entirely different color or if you prefer to be more accurate, a tree of a different color. The point is that pruning…
Read MoreWinter Pruning
Be Prudent About Winter Pruning Winter pruning isn’t something that most people think about on a regular basis. In fact, if you’re like most homeowners, you may not even be aware that pruning should be a part of your winter lawn care, thinking instead that shearing off your plants and shrubs is something that needs…
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