2017

Factors That Will Influence Your Price Quote For A Tree Removal

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When you contact a tree service about having a tree in your yard cut down, look for a service that will give you a no-obligation quote upon visiting your location. Any reputable tree service can't automatically tell you how much it will cost to have your tree cut down, as there are several variables that can affect the price. Generally, when you call about this service, you can schedule a date and time that work for you.

29 July 2017

Pretty Ideas For Blending Landscaping With Garden Gates

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A garden gate is an inviting element. While it's true a closed gate keeps people out, a decorative garden gate can welcome visitors. Garden gates naturally lend themselves to blending with the surrounding landscaping. Let your garden gate stand as a focal point in your landscape design: Picket Gate A white picket fence with a matching gate is a classic front yard structure. While wooden picket is traditional, many homeowners are opting for vinyl constructions.

27 July 2017

3 Steps For A Greener And Healthier Yard

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Do you have a lawn that looks brown and dead but you can't figure out why? Do you wish that you had one of the best lawns in your neighborhood instead of one of the worst? Most of the time, growing grass isn't very difficult. However, there are times when it can feel like getting grass to grow will require a miracle. Fortunately, miracles aren't usually needed. Here are some of the best things you can do to get a beautiful-looking lawn:

27 July 2017

Three Mistakes To Avoid With New Trees

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Planting a new tree in your yard is an investment in the future since it will take many years for it to properly mature. This means you want to make sure it doesn't meet any unfortunate ends during its early years. The following are a few mistakes to avoid if you want your new tree to grow tall and healthy. #1: Confining the roots Roots are the key to a healthy, long-lived tree.

27 July 2017

How To Fix Patches Of Brown Grass

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Patches of brown grass can appear in any lawn at a moment's notice, and are one of the most common landscaping problems that homeowners can experience. There are a wide variety of factors that can cause grass to begin to die and turn brown, which can make fixing the problem slightly difficult. Thankfully, there are a handful of different things that you can do to try and restore the green lustre of your lawn and maintain the aesthetic appeal of your entire landscape that your landscape designer helped you create.

27 July 2017

How To Choose The Ideal Material For Your Backyard Fence

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Fences are not all made alike. Some fences are designed to be sturdy and keep out stray dogs or trespassers. Other fences are more for beautification and are designed to be mere decoration. And then there are fences that are designed to shield you from prying eyes. The choice of material is going to depend upon the reason you are getting the fence installed. If you don't take into account the reason that you are getting a fence installed, then you might end up with a fence material that is completely inappropriate for your needs.

27 July 2017

Types Of Hydroseeding Mulches

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Hydroseeding is the process of spraying an area down with a mixture of seeds and mulch with a large amount of water, and is a great way to plant grass and plants over a large area. There are many different types of mulch that can be used in the hydroseeding process, each of which seeks to provide an ideal environment for plant growth but carries a distinct set of advantages and drawbacks with it.

26 July 2017

Four Underutilized Actions In Lawn Maintenance

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Obviously, you know the basic actions of lawn maintenance, such as watering and mowing, or you wouldn't actually have a lawn. You may also fertilize and aerate your lawn on a schedule to keep it healthy. However, there are some lawn maintenance actions that many homeowners underutilize. Yet they can help create an even healthier and more lush lawn. Dethatching Thatch is a layer of both living and dead shoots, stems, roots, and other debris that accumulates between the grass blades and the soil.

26 July 2017

Ready To Expand Your Lawn Care Business? What To Know Before Buying New Equipment

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If you are expanding your lawn service company and you don't want to spend a lot of money on new equipment, there are some things that you want to do to help keep the equipment that you have working, as well as to prevent other additional costs. You want to make sure that the expansion will work out before you spend any money on more equipment. Here are some of the things that you can do before the season starts and throughout the peak lawn care season.

26 July 2017

3 Tips For Turning Your Home's Landscape Into A Butterfly Haven

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After deciding you want to add the poetic beauty of butterflies to your already pristine landscape, you may wonder what changes you should make to attract the delicate, colorful insects. If so, use the following three tips for turning your home's landscape into a haven for butterflies. Plant Flowers Butterflies Love to Eat One main way to attract butterflies is to plant the types of flowers that they love to feed on.

25 July 2017