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 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 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 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 MoreWhich Type Lawn Fertilizer Is Best: Liquid Products Or Dry Products?
While there are many types of lawn fertilizers, most of them fall into one of two main categories. These categories are liquid and dry. Dry fertilizers for lawns tend to be granular and come in a bag. Liquid lawn fertilizers can be purchased in bottles or professionally sprayed on to lawns. Here are the advantages…
Read MoreLeave the Pesticides to the Professional Lawn Care Experts
You have pests invading your lawn, and they are starting to do real damage. You need to do something about it before the damage gets any worse. You may be thinking that you can run down to the DIY store and get pesticides to handle the job yourself. That is actually a hazardous thing to…
Read MoreCreate The Outdoor Man Cave of Your Dreams
Are you ready for some football? That’s an easy yes, but the real question might be: Is your man cave ready for the big game? And there is an even better question: Are you ready for an awesome outdoor man cave? That’s right; we said outdoor man cave. Fall weather on the Gulf Coast is…
Read MorePruning and Protection: Preserving Florida’s Sabal Palm
Florida’s state tree, the Sabal Palm (also known as a cabbage palm or by its scientific name, the Sabal Palmetto), is an iconic, but vulnerable, part of Florida’s landscape. Many people don’t realize that over-pruning or pruning them in the wrong way can cause irreversible damage. In fact, the palm is self-pruning and will shed…
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