Tree & Shrub Care Guide
A flourishing landscape begins with proper care upon planting. Here’s your guide to caring for your newly planted trees and shrubs.
Fall Planting: The Best Way to a Healthy Root System
Though you may be dubious of the benefits of planting in the fall, professionals recommend it for a reason. Fall planting has many advantages that make it worth your while.
Create Beautiful Spaces with Boulder Retaining Walls
Nature provides us with an abundance of beautiful materials to work with, and stone is one of the most versatile and stunning. When natural stone boulders are used to create retaining walls, they can add functionality and beauty to your landscape.
Plant Spotlight: ‘Tor’ Birchleaf Spirea
Could you tell me the name of your favorite spirea? You just rolled your eyes, didn’t you?
That’s okay. While spirea is a commonly used plant for landscapers, it’s not the plant that customers get excited about when they’re at the nursery. Most people wouldn’t even recognize this favorite as spirea, though.
Grass Seed for St. Louis Lawns
With grass seed prices skyrocketing, you need to maximize your fall grass seed germination. Choosing the right seed and installing it at the perfect time are just two tips for grass seeding success. Find out everything you need to know to create a healthy and lush lawn.
Plant Profile: Lavender
There is no denying the charm of lavender. The fragrance alone brings to mind idyllic images of meandering walkways bordered by the aromatic, silvery foliage. The musky scent of purple flowers on long, slender stems drying in a forgotten kitchen window. Very few plants can evoke such emotion and take you to places you’ve longed to visit.
Low Maintenance Perennials for Busy Lifestyles
Finding time in our busy schedules for anything above and beyond the absolute necessary can be difficult. Finding time for a hobby that offers us peace and helps with our well-being can seem downright daunting and often unnecessary.
Irrigation Start-Up and Summer Inspection
Turning on your sprinkler system should be a simple task. But, starting up your irrigation system after a winter of freezing and thawing can reveal a whole host of problems.
Improve Your Landscape With These Design Tips
Designing a landscape can be overwhelming. With so many options available, knowing what to plant can be a challenge. But planning a new landscape bed or improving your landscape doesn’t have to be difficult when you follow these garden design tips.
The Benefits of Landscape Lighting
Outdoor lighting should reach far beyond your front door and back porch. It can be both striking and beneficial, all the while extending your living area to make your outdoor living area useful at all hours of the day. Here are four reasons why every landscape should include outdoor lighting.
5 Must-Have Perennials for Fall Color
We plant flowers to welcome the spring and brighten our receding winter landscapes. We add color to the summer garden and often admire them from the comfort of our air-conditioned home. But the time of year when we step back outside to enjoy the cooler autumn temperatures, our gardens are often left barren. Leaving fall color to only the trees and the mums planted at your front door. Take advantage of the pleasant temperatures and extend your garden palette with these 5 must-have perennials for fall color.