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Find Ways To Utilize Eco-Friendly Features When You're Landscaping
When you're beginning to work on the landscaping for your yard, it makes sense to see what features are going to help it feel energy-efficient and good for the environment. Instead of struggling to care for your landscaping with a lot of watering, fertilizing, and other gardening work, taking the right steps can help your yard look great and be as eco-friendly as possible. Manage the Water Usage The first place to start when you're interested in landscaping in an eco-friendly way is to manage how much water your yard will need. [Read More]
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2 Tips For Mowing Your Lawn Before The Winter Months
When the temperatures start dropping and the threat of frost is imminent, you may have started preparations for getting the exterior of your home ready for the upcoming cold weather. As part of these preparations, you know that you will need to mow your grass one last time. However, you may worry about doing it in a way that will help ensure that your lawn will come back healthy and green once winter is over. [Read More]
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4 Reasons To Have Your Crabapple Trees Trimmed
Crabapple trees can add all sorts of beauty to your property. In the spring, they are covered in pink or white blossoms, and in the fall, they develop pretty red fruits. In exchange for their beauty, though, crabapple trees do ask something of you. They ask you to have them pruned once a year. Here are four reasons why this annual trimming is so important. 1. Trimming keeps branches from snapping and breaking in the wind. [Read More]
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How To Patch Lawn Damage With Sod
Damage to the lawn can ruin the perfect look of your landscaping. Although you could seed the area and wait patiently for the grass to recover, a quicker option is to install a sod patch. Doing so correctly provides an instant fix that you can begin to enjoy immediately. Remove Old Turf The first step is to prepare the site for the successful rooting of the new sod. Remove the old damaged turf, along with any weeds. [Read More]
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Finish Off Your Landscape Design With These 5 Lighting Elements
As you plan your landscape design, you likely will give a lot of attention to choosing the right trees, shrubs, and flowers. But what about the landscape lighting? The right lighting elevates any landscape, but the wrong lighting could render it less interesting, less safe, and less useful. How can you make the best lighting plan for your space? Here are five key elements to include. 1. Safety Lights First and foremost, landscape lighting should be about promoting outdoor safety. [Read More]
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Protect Your Grass From Five Common Lawn Mowing Issues
Mowing your lawn is supposed to make it look nicer, so it can be frustrating if the lawn actually looks worse after it is cut. Fortunately, you can prevent most of these issues if you know the underlying cause. 1. Brown Tips It can be frustrating to mow a rich green lawn and then see the top of the grass blades browning a few hours later. The cause often lies within your lawnmower blade. [Read More]
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Insight To Improve Upon Your Yard Landscaping This Season
Installing your yard with all its landscaping can be a big task that can take you time in planning and setting it into place, so it can be a benefit when you have assistance in the task. Once you get your landscaping started, there are always new additions with vegetation, trees, and hardscape features you can add later on to make your landscaping project an ongoing one. Here are some updates you can make to your landscaping to improve upon its function and appearance for an attractive-looking yard. [Read More]
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Live In A Loud And Busy Area? 4 Tips To Create A Quiet And Peaceful Landscape
When you own a home in a loud and busy area, you may contemplate the idea of finding another place to live on occasion. But, if you are happy with all the other things that your house provides, you should make it a priority to solve the problem without selling the place and moving away. While you may be able to get a decent amount of peace and quiet in the house through various means, this is something that you may struggle to get in your backyard. [Read More]
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Trimming Dead Branches Out Of A Tree Is Important For Safety Reasons And To Protect Your Tree's Health
It can be normal for tree branches to die in a healthy tree. This might happen due to storms, from humans, or even because of animal activity. Branches can also die off due to diseases, and that's not a normal situation. If your tree has a disease, it should be checked by an arborist and treated. No matter what caused the branches in your tree to die, the dead wood should be removed. [Read More]
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Avoid Environmental Harm With The Right Lawn Care Services
Taking care of your lawn can often lead to environmental damage due to water runoff and the kinds of plants that you chose. When you want to reduce how much damage happens to the environment, there's a lot of things you can look for specifically to make sure that your lawn stays healthy and that you're not going to be causing any negative harm with the wrong landscaping methods and equipment. [Read More]