Residential Landscaping
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 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 MoreTerracing for Beauty and Function
Great Benefits of Terracing Most people have heard of terracing but not everyone is familiar with what it is or what function it serves. Terracing is a landscaping feature that looks a great deal like a staircase in that it has multiple levels of elevation or steps. Terraces are a great addition to any type…
Read MoreDo You Have a Landscape Design Plan?
A Landscape Design Plan for Your Yard If you’ve ever tried completing a project without having a plan, you know it’s not usually a wise thing to do. Things turn out far from the way you imagined they would, whether in look or in actual function. This means all that work was for nothing. Similarly,…
Read MorePricing for Decks
How Budgeting for Decks Can Keep Your Project Grounded Every project, whether you’re building a birdhouse or a full-sized home, costs something to complete, and that cost is largely determined by the type of materials you choose to use. The less expensive the materials, the lower the cost of the project. But when you’re building…
Read MoreLow Maintenance Landscaping
9 Ways to Achieve Low Maintenance Landscaping Wanting to have a yard that’s beautiful and something that really shows off your home doesn’t necessarily mean you have to spend extreme amounts of money or invest huge chunks of time into maintaining it. Fortunately, there are a few ways to help you achieve a breathtaking landscape…
Read MoreCamouflage Unsightly Elements with a Masterpiece
Creating a Masterpiece Out of an Eyesore We’ve all watched those wonderful transformations of landscapes that seem to take a barren or overgrown backyard and turn them into something amazing…and if you’re honest, they probably leave with a major case of property envy. Truth be told, those eye-catching changes aren’t as simple as the magic…
Read MoreCreating a Yard Worth Screaming About
A Yard for Halloween! It’s almost Halloween! So it’s also time to trick out your yard and get it looking like a treat, rather than a horror. Sure, you might want to make it look scary – but the scary factor should come from your ghoulish decorations, not the actual state of your yard. That…
Read MoreGet Out! Creating the Ultimate Backyard
One of the biggest trends in recent years has been in outdoor living and creating areas that accommodate everything from simple little gardens to full-on spaces worthy of dinner party invites. Naturally, those spaces are designed according to the actual living style of the homeowner; but with the range of outdoor products available, the possibilities…
Read MoreOpen Season for Aerating Your Lawn
Don’t Forget to Aerate! If you’re a property owner with your eye on the prize of having a lush, lovely green lawn worthy of the high-gloss pages of a magazine or verdant enough to catch the eye of your neighborhood garden committee, you’ll probably be watching the calendar and trying to get a game plan…
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