Your lawn is the highest maintenance part of your landscape. It requires regular feeding, watering, mowing etc.. It may also be the dominant or largest landscape feature on your property. Are the resources you invest in your lawn giving you a satisfactory return on your investment? You should treat your landscape as you treat your home when it comes to …

This has been the longest, hottest, driest summer on record! That’s saying a lot! We are going into the third month of ninety degree temps without a drop of rain! We should remember last winters lack of snow fall started off in a deficit of rainfall. In the last two weeks things have taken a turn for the worst in …

It’s been a long, hot, dry summer…and it’s not over! Our lawns are made up of cool season grasses. That means they do best during cool and moderate temperature seasons. That does not describe this summers weather pattern! Aside from the fact that this has been one of the driest summers on record, it has also been one of the …

The perfect lawn provides a dramatic contrast between the browns and greens of the woodland and the blooming flower beds. The addition of perennial pocket gardens with the woodland backdrop break up the large lawn creating interest by enticing the visitor to wander around the grounds, viewing the gardens from each perspective. The hot tub placement guaranteed optimum use by …

I can’t imagine why as a community of intelligent, educated people we practice denial of unhealthy landscape practices ! In addition to overuse of leaf blowers in landscape maintenance, which has been found to elevate blood pressure and disrupt the nervous system of the elderly in certain retirement communities, we are obsessed with what has been described as the ‘Green …