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2 days ago
9 min

Everything You Need to Know About Pruning

Pruning involves removing plant parts to improve the health, landscape effect or value of the plant.

Aug 3
5 min

Using Fertilizer and Mulch in Your Garden

Plants can survive in a yard without additional fertilizing. But if you want your landscape to look its best, fertilizer is recommended.

Jul 27
3 min

Proper Plant Irrigation

Plant irrigation is important to the health of your yard. To help, we’ve created a list of 4 signs to recognize when caring for your plants.

Jul 20
4 min

Every Term You Need to Know to Describe Plants

We've all heard different terms used to communicate about plants. To reduce the confusion, we’ve boiled it down to a few choice words.

Jul 13
5 min

What You Didn't Know About Hardscape Maintenance: Stone

Some often assume stone is "stain proof," however, all stone is porous to some degree.

Jul 6
2 min

What You Didn't Know About Hardscape Maintenance: Pavers

When properly installed, interlocking pavements have very low maintenance and provide an attractive surface for decades.

Jun 29
6 min

What You Didn't Know About Hardscape Maintenance: Concrete

All non-living man-made materials and elements in an outdoor area are considered hardscape.

Jun 22
2 min

Turn Your Backyard into a Relaxing Oasis Using Pantone's 2020 Color of the Year

If you're planing on enjoying this time outside, then it's the perfect time to rethink the look and feel of your space.

Jun 15
2 min

Composting for Beginners

When done the right way, composting is a very simple process: just add a bit of soil to your organic waste to create the best soil builder.

Jun 7
1 min

Retaining Walls: Function and Beauty

Retaining walls are hard structures used to maintain the bottom surfaces at different elevations. The wall provides lateral support to ve...

May 31
1 min

Landscape Ideas for Small Yards

If you live in a condo or townhouse, you likely have little to no yard space. But bigger isn't necessarily better and even a small yard c...

May 24
2 min

Benefits of Residential Lawn Maintenance

Maintenance of your lawn, like that of your car or heating and cooling system, is much more affordable than replacement. It’s more cost e...

May 14
2 min

5 Ways to Experience the Outdoors During Quarantine

It’s been a month or so since schools and non-essential workplaces have closed their doors and social distancing has become the new norma...

May 8
3 min

Is Your Lawn Under-watered? And Why Overwatering May Be Worse

We all love a green lush lawn. When we see our lawn struggling, it is a bit disappointing. In these cases, the first thing we often assum...

May 5
4 min

4 Ways to Handle Weeds- And Preventing Them In The First Place

Weeds, an unwelcome guest who invade any landscape. They turn your beautiful lawn and planter beds into ugly eyesores that really cause a...

Apr 28
5 min

Everything Starts with an Idea— The Design Process

Everything starts with an idea, if you think about it, this is very true. Nothing happens unless someone or something has an idea, though...

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