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How Landscape Lighting can elevate your home

A great way to have beautiful landscaping at your home is by planning the placement of lighting fixtures outside on the lawns or on the exterior of buildings. Here is how the proper landscape lighting can elevate the exterior of your home to make anyone passing by feeling jealous about not living there.

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Hardscaping Design Elements

A lovely backyard is a joy. It’s a place to gather and appreciate. All homeowners need to think about the kind of yard they want. Many different elements go into creating the perfect yard. They vary depending on the person’s personal preferences. Some people want a yard with lots of details. They may be searching for lots of items to use there such as benches, seeds to create a garden and other items that can make the yard look and feel pleasing to the eye. Others may prefer to have a more streamlined look that lets them have plenty of open space. Each homeowner, no matter their kind of personal yard style, should do several things to their yard as spring approaches to prepare for the upcoming season.

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Prepping Your Lawn or Garden For Spring

After a long, cold winter, the earliest signs of spring can create a lot of excitement. The first flower buds and sprouting leaves also inspire us to get started with work around the lawn, landscape, and garden. As you look out over the remnants of last year’s growth, it may feel like you don’t know…

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Protecting Your Driveway This Winter

Keeping your property’s driveway in great condition can save you money along with making it easier to use. Winter weather conditions can damage a driveway’s materials, and if you don’t plan carefully, your driveway is difficult for you to walk on or to park a vehicle. Protecting a driveway can prevent damage such as cracks…

Winterburn on Your Lawn

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While it is known for hurting evergreens, it can also do extensive damage to your lawn during very cold weather. Without swift help, winterburn can lead to irreversible lawn damage, costly repairs and poor aesthetics in your yard. Understanding the basics of this common problem can help you avoid it in the future or learn how to treat it if it has happened to you this spring.

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The Benefits of Landscaping Newly Acquired Property

Sometimes, homeowners forget that one of the best ways to improve on the investment that they made in a home is simply through landscaping their property. The most cost-efficient way to accomplish is to first plan out your vision on paper for space and create it for your own enjoyment as well as contributing to the following benefits:

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The Importance of Transplanting During the Right Season

Planting bushes, trees and perennials is a fantastic way to improve the look of your yard and also potentially improve the value of your property. The best part about all of these plants is that they provide a range of benefits you can enjoy year after year, that is, as long as you take the time to ensure they are transplanted properly. Otherwise, you might as well just take the money you plan on spending on those trees or other plants and throw it into the trash since there’s a high chance the plants won’t survive the year. In this sense, by far the most important thing you can do is to ensure you are transplanting during the right time of the year in order to give the plants the best chance of survival.

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Spring Lawn Care Tips

Taking care of your lawn now before it starts to grow ensures that you can enjoy it throughout the year. Cool season grasses like fescue, bluegrass and rye have a moderate growth spurt in the spring and a big one in the fall. Warm season grasses like Zoysia, St. Augustine, centipede and Bermuda start off…