What you MUST do for your landscape in 2018 PART II.

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What you MUST do for your landscape in 2018 PART II.

Be frank with your landscape contractor if he or she asks what your budget is.  There are usually multiple different ways to fix or improve your landscape and none of them cost the same.

Being upfront with your budget eliminates wasted time and work for both the homeowner and contractor.  It saves you time reviewing proposals that are outside of your budget and saves the contractor time in generating detailed proposals that will never turn into reality.  It streamlines everything.

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What you MUST do for your landscape in 2018 Part I

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What you MUST do for your landscape in 2018 Part I

We have SIX BIG TIPS that you must do for your landscape in 2018 and today we are sharing the first three.  We really want to help you make your landscape a priority for 2018.

I mean, let's be real...we know you want to have a little something extra special to smile about when you pull up in your driveway or have family and friends over, right?!?!  Let's get started.

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Mistakes You Don't Want To Make When Hiring A Contractor

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Mistakes You Don't Want To Make When Hiring A Contractor

In my 20 plus years of entrepreneurship, it still leaves me baffled when I meet with a new client and they tell me that they have called 3 other landscape companies before me and I was the only one that answered the phone or called them back.

I think, wow, how can someone run a business that is totally dependent on a steady flow of leads and not call those leads back.  (Well, actually, the first thing I think about is, dang, I really need to improve my marketing since I was the 4th company they found, but that’s a topic for another day).

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Our Top 3 tips for your February Landscape

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Our Top 3 tips for your February Landscape

Grasses such as Adagio, Maiden, Muhly and Hameln are beautiful mounds of gently waving blades with awesome tufts of blooms for most of the growing season. Now they are brown and tired looking. Tie them up and cut them off level approximately 6” above the ground.

It provides a manicured look to your landscape and promotes uninhibited new growth this spring, resulting in a more robust plant.

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Adjusting your Irrigation System for Cooler Weather

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Adjusting your Irrigation System for Cooler Weather

The two systems we use are Manually Operated and Automatically Operated.

A manual system refers to a system that has to be turned on and off by hand while an automatic system is operated with a controller and can tell the system when to turn on and off, what days to water and how long each zone will water.

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