To most homeowners, winter is the season when they need to consistently warm their home. It’s actually time to check whether their heating system is in good condition to warm their house throughout the chilly weather. But for most commercial property owners, it’s a season when snowstorms significantly interfere with their business activities and affect their commercial landscape. This means the employees and customers won’t enjoy safe and dry walkways and parking lots for a while.…
Scheduling for lawn care work to be done on a routine basis can be one of the best things that you can do to maintain the outside of your home and make being a homeowner easier on you. Instead of struggling to get the home to turn out the way that you want, it’s best to look for what can be done to make sure that lawn care is done without any disappointments.…
The health of your trees within your yard’s landscaping is an important feature and value to your property, so you should take care of them with regular care and trimming. In addition to providing your trees regular water, you will also need to remove dead branches and keep the tree trimmed in a healthy shape to withstand winds and time. Here are some recommendations to help you better care for your yard trees with maintenance, care, and regular trimming for healthy growth.…
An automatic sprinkler system is more than a convenience, it can also provide many other benefits.
1. Save Time
One of the best reasons to install automatic sprinklers is because it will save you time. You won’t have to spend hours every week watering by hand or adjusting your schedule so that you can be home to turn on a manual sprinkler at the right time. You can simply decide when you want to water and for how long, then set the automatic sprinklers to follow this schedule.…
Landscaping a small front yard can come with some unique challenges since the limited space can make it difficult to choose projects that you should include. If you’re unsure of where to start with landscaping a smaller yard, you need to choose projects that won’t overcrowd the space. Here are some ways that will help you make the most of the size of your yard and make it feel less small.…
There are few things as beautiful as a perfect lawn edge! If you have ever envied the edge of a neighbor’s lawn and wished your own lawn edge looked as straight and perfect, then this guide is for you. The steps should be easy to follow, even if you have never edged a lawn before.
Step 1: Gather the essentials
As with most projects, it is easier to move along when you have everything you need in front of you and don’t need to keep running back and forth to the garage.…
A pergola typically has open slats for a roof, which allows some light in while providing minimal shade. Although this can be pleasant in the right location and the right climate, the open roof design may not provide quite enough shade in areas with lots of sun and heat. Fortunately, there are several solutions that help add more shade to the traditional pergola design.
1. Fixed Roof
Although a traditional pergola has slat roofs, you can choose to have a fixed roof installed so that there is always plenty of shade beneath the pergola.…
If your landscape is mostly empty, you may find it easy to move around from one side to the other because you do not have to worry about obstacles getting in the way. But, you may want to start adding features and plant growth to make the landscape more attractive and functional.
While you may have a lot of ideas in mind for what you want to add, you may know that one of your top priorities is making sure the whole landscape is easy to walk around.…
To ensure that your lawn flourishes, you will want to ensure that your lawn care routines consists of watering, fertilization, and weeding. However, even if your grass is strong and healthy, it is possible to damage it if you mow it the wrong way. For instance, there are certain mowing techniques that can result in uneven cuts or even flatten your mowing blades over time. Here are a few mistakes that you will want avoid while mowing to ensure your yard continues to look great.…
Reducing how much maintenance your front yard can need can be so important to consider when you’re working on the landscaping and want to get your yard to turn out how you would like. Instead of ending up with landscaping that can be daunting with how much maintenance it will need, there are several features that you can look for to make sure that the landscaping is not going to require too much work.…
