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Top 5 Water Savers
Water conservation is growing in urgency. These simple methods can save money for your clients — and burnish your sustainable-landscaping credentials.
October 8, 2011
Design-Build
Pacific Prairie
Eco-friendly design reminds homeowners of the American Heartlands. From billowing grasses to sandstone unearthed during site preparation, this tranquil landscape contrasts, yet complements, its neighborhood setting dominated by palm trees and beaches.
October 8, 2011
Design-Build
Plant Trends You Can Grow With
New choices that meet the needs now—and in the future. These top picks among plant offerings will enhance your reputation as an expert in sustainable landscape practices. Buzzwords you’ll hear more and more regarding plant choices: low-maintenance, downsizing, drought-tolerant and edible landscape. We interviewed leading growers and landscape pros to gather top picks among new plant offerings you can use to update your designs and bedding selections and enhance your reputation as an expert in smart investment and sustainable landscape practices.
October 8, 2011
Redhead coleus (Solenostemon hybrida) is a recent introduction that lasts all season.
Design-Build
Bright Ideas in Lighting Choices
Light up outdoor spaces with these lighting choices.
October 7, 2011
Lawn maintenance
Lawn maintenance: Varmints vamoose!
How to reclaim a landscape from vertebrate pests. The appeal of having an animal habitat in your backyard can quickly fade when you face repeatedly replacing plants mowed down by a hungry rabbit or deer.
October 7, 2011
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Install an On-Surface Dripline
Drip irrigation can be used almost anywhere spray, rotary or impact sprinklers are used, but on-surface drip systems are becoming increasingly popular for bedding areas because they take less time to install and offer significant water savings.
October 6, 2011
Design-Build
Sun Lovers
12 Easy-care plants that can take the heat. the sunny garden can pose a challenge to the most experienced landscaper. These plants that not only tolerate hours of direct sunlight, but also don’t require a lot of watering, pruning and fertilizing.
September 4, 2011
Design-Build
Elegant Views
A front and backyard designed with water in mind. In response to the close proximity of their clients’ Mediterranean-style house to the road, Native Landscapes, from Wilmington, North Carolina, designed an eye-catching, formal entrance and water feature at the front of the home.
September 1, 2011
Design-Build
How to create profitable koi ponds
We interviewed many experts for this article to come up with best tips on how to build a koi pond. Click here to read the story from Total Landscape Care.
September 1, 2011
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Design-Build
Companion plants for autumn
If you’re looking for the perfect foils to freshen up the late season landscape, combine these autumnal-colored annuals, season extending perennials and evergreen or ornamental grasses with existing plantings.
September 1, 2011
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Lawn maintenance
Imprelis Herbicide Injury
The latest on how to get damaged trees, and client relations, on the mend
September 1, 2011
Design-Build
Add-on services: Christmas lighting trends
Judicious color, LEDs, animation and creating a natural look can separate your holiday lighting services from the competition. Christmas is a holiday filled with traditions, but that doesn’t mean your lighting service should be old fashioned.
September 1, 2011
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Design-Build
Playtime Paradise
Tropical-themed play area for clients’grandchildren. Greenday Creations in Miami, Florida installed a landscape where the homeowners’ grandchildren could have “the best day ever” enjoying an island-like retreat at their private residence in Redlands, Florida.
August 1, 2011
Business
Business best practices: Adding aeration
It’s in demand, and here’s how to profit from this add-on service.
August 1, 2011
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Plants: Using ground covers around trees
Maintaining turf in the shade under established trees can be an ongoing battle. Mowing over large surface roots is hard on both the tree and the mower. And grass growing close to the trunk needs trimming, of course, but it’s tough to keep it neat without cutting into the trunk.
August 1, 2011
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Celebratory Setting
To design a landscape that would not only enliven the backyard, but also serve as the location for the wedding of the homeowners in Hudson, Wisconsin, The Greenskeepers created a tiered, fanciful garden. They used natural stone to create terraces with a 6-foot-wide grand staircase that leads from the yard to the focal point of the fountain.
July 8, 2011
Business
How to: Pattern mow a lawn
WHY: The striped patterns seen on athletic fields are showing up on residential and commercial properties. “Customers who pay to have their yards maintained want a professional look,” says Chris Russell, a John Deere product manager for the commercial mowing market. “They see grass at a ballpark and enjoy that manicured look in their yard. It sets their lawn apart from the neighbors.
July 8, 2011
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Lawn maintenance
Don’t be stuck with the bill
Billbugs are masters at disguising their destruction as drought or disease, most often seen in the summer months. .
July 8, 2011
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