Mulching for Your Landscaping and Flower Beds Garden mulching helps to reduce landscape maintenance. A good mulch layer helps control weed growth as well as retain moisture around the root systems of plants. Mulching also protects roots from freezing in the winter. We have seen more freezing
Landscaping Care by the Month
Landscaping Care For All Seasons January Check and make sure that mulch is still covering any plants that are exposed to the north. Thorough pruning should be done on all trees and shrubs. This is something that our experienced team can happily help you with. Deep-water trees, shrubs, and
Making Moves In Landscaping
How to Transplant -- Transplanting Trees and Shrubs Transplanting young trees and shrubs that you have just purchased from a nursery appears an easy task -- deceptively so! Many new plants die because they're not planted properly. Likewise, if you're about to give a facelift to a landscape design
Join The Shrub Club
A few helpful tips for you and your Shrubs! Shrubs suitable for planting on banks or slopes have suckering root systems or branches that root where they touch the ground. Use shrubs tolerant of adverse growing conditions. A number of shrubs grow and bloom in shade. These shrubs don't require
Natural Weed Killer
Weeds getting to you?? Save that Vinegar in the cabinet. For the organic gardener, vinegar can function as a handy natural weed killer. It's the acetic acid in vinegar that gives it the power to kill weeds. The higher the percentage of acid in the vinegar, the better it will operate as a natural
Indoor Plants
The Right Way to Water a House Plant Are you confused about watering your houseplants? Many people consider it a simple matter, watering their plants whenever they think of it. Others are more methodical. They water regularly, according to the calendar, regardless of their plants' needs. Neither of
Agave
Want to learn to grow Agave?? Overview and Description: At first glance, you probably wouldn’t be called agave plants rosettes. So many of the common ones are spiny succulents, with leaves that jut out in often dangerous looking spikes. There is actually a lot of variety in the agave genus. There
Landscaping Digging Safety
Planning to dig? Beware of buried utilities! A recent report by the Common Ground Alliance (CGA) states that Americans strike underground utilities approximately once every minute. Apart from the risk of serious injury, unintentionally damaging buried utility causes interruption of service as well