Autumn is an excellent time of year because everything becomes colorful. Your shrubs and trees become ruby red, gold, plum, and bronze shades. However, the cleanup begins once those leaves fall off your trees. Once they fall, the fallen leaves… Read More
Archive for the ‘Landscaping’ Category
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How to Keep Your Landscape Soil Healthy
You may think that your property’s landscape soil is only dirt. However, it’s more than that. Soil is inhabited by microorganisms that serve different roles in your garden. These microbes will grow and help protect your plants if you develop… Read More
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Handy Tips for Mulching Your Trees
Mulching is a critical practice for maintaining the health and aesthetics of your trees. This simple yet effective technique helps conserve moisture, suppress weeds, regulate soil temperature, and improve soil structure. However, proper mulching requires more than just spreading a… Read More
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How Can You Tell If Shade Trees Are Right for Your Yard?
A tree could be an excellent investment to provide shade for your entire yard. But you have to do your research in advance, or the reality of owning a tree might not line up with what you needed or expected. If you… Read More
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The Best Types of Trees for Fence Lines
If you’re looking for a way to update and improve your property, trees are a great bet. Trees offer so many benefits to the world in general but also to the specific ecosystem of your property. As a homeowner, planting… Read More
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Fun Trees That Can Raise Your Property Value
How’s this for a no-brainer? By adding a few good-lookin’ trees to your lawnscape, you stand in one fell swoop to make a positive environmental contribution, become the belle of the neighborhood yard-ball—and boost your home’s value significantly! …Plus, picking… Read More
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The Various Ways a Tree Could Damage Your Home
Having a beautiful tree in your yard is something that feels like a blessing once you’ve purchased the house of your dreams. In fact, beautiful trees are something people look out for when they are looking to buy a property…. Read More
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How to Deal with Fallen Leaves on Your Landscape
As enjoyable as the added touch of color that fall brings may be, it can also bring its own issues. First, your leaves will turn amazing shades of red, gold, and bronze. Next thing you know, though, they’re falling off… Read More
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A Handy Guide to Hardscaping
A handy guide to what, you ask? Well! In the parlance of landscaping, materials generally fall into one of two classificational categories: softscape—comprising all vegetation and the substances required for its upkeep (soil, fertilizer, etc.); then there’s hardscape, which denotes… Read More
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What to Do and Not to Do for Mulching Your Trees
Mulch is not an absolute requirement for landscaping trees, but it could provide a slate of benefits for both your landscape’s appearance and for the health of the tree. If you are planning to have the trees mulched, you will… Read More