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  1. 3 Easy Ways To Add Water To Your Landscape Design Without A Pond

    3 Easy Ways To Add Water To Your Landscape Design Without A Pond
    Few sounds are more soothing than moving water. Just thinking of water splashing over a rock ledge is enough for me to start relaxing. Though often considered a luxury item, water features can fit into most homeowner's budgets. You just have to pick the right kind. You don't need a lot of space or a pond to have a beautiful...
  2. Designing A Winter Wonderland In Your Landscape

    Designing A Winter Wonderland In Your Landscape
    Landscaping For Year-Round Interest Part 4 Dull, drab, and brown. That's what many landscape beds look like in the winter, except for an evergreen bush or two. But there's no reason your landscape bed has to look boring during the coldest time of the year. With a little planning, it's possible to design a landscape that's beautiful in every season...
  3. Keep Ponds Beautiful With Water's Edge Maintenance

    Keep Ponds Beautiful With Water's Edge Maintenance
    A beautiful pond can be the highlight of a backyard. Maintaining that pond is often a challenge, though. Not only do you want to keep the water healthy and clean, but you also need to maintain the pond banks. Luckily, the two are connected and if you spend time maintaining the area around your pond it will help keep the...
  4. The Essential Quick-Guide To Lawn Mower Types

    The Essential Quick-Guide To Lawn Mower Types
    Purchasing a lawn mower is a major decision, one you want to get right the first time. But it's hard to pick through the wide selection available and decide exactly what you do and don't need. Several factors go into determining what type of lawnmower you buy. Lawn size is a big one and you'll also need to take into...
  5. A Beginners Guide To Lawn Care Equipment

    A Beginners Guide To Lawn Care Equipment
    Buying new lawn equipment is a significant investment of your hard-earned money. And if you're new to having a lawn to take care of, figuring out which equipment to purchase can be quite a challenge. The range of available options is huge and you're not sure which brands and models will work best for you or which tools you'll use...
  6. What Can I Do With Woody Yard Waste?

    What Can I Do With Woody Yard Waste?
    Anyone with trees or bushes in their yard has had to deal with woody yard waste at one time or another. Outside of cities, stray branches, twigs, and clippings often end up on the burn pile. In towns, they may end up in the trash. But there are alternatives that actually make use of this extra woody material. Recycle There's...
  7. Plan A Breathtaking Fall Landscape

    Plan A Breathtaking Fall Landscape
    Landscaping For Year-Round Interest Part 3 Landscape beds usually look pretty good in the spring and summer, but it's common for things to start looking drab in the fall. That doesn't have to be the case. If you're going to put time and money into your landscape bed, you want something that's beautiful in every season. Join us for a...
  8. Create A Sensational Summer Landscape

    Create A Sensational Summer Landscape
     Landscaping For Year-Round Interest Part 2 If you're going to put time and money into creating a new landscape bed or re-doing your existing landscaping, you want lasting results. And you want the resulting design to look good all the time, not just a few months out of the year. Join us for a four-part blog series that will help...
  9. How to Beat The Summer Bugs And Enjoy Your Yard

    How to Beat The Summer Bugs And Enjoy Your Yard
    Warm summer weather draws us outside to enjoy our lawns and gardens. But all too often, the bugs drive us right back indoors. Mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, and flies can ruin outdoor gatherings, make yard work miserable, and leave kids and pets with itchy bites. Not to mention the fact that biting insects can carry diseases. Even if your community sends...
  10. Is it okay to mow after a heavy rain?

    Is it okay to mow after a heavy rain?
    With the unusually high amount of rainfall in the Dallas/Fort Worth are the last 2 years, there's a good chance you haven't been able to mow your lawn for a while. The ground is too soggy, or it's been raining during all your free time and the grass has gotten out of control. The good news for homeowners is that...