Category: Landscaping
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Fast Growing Trees for Your Yard
Some suggestions for fast growing trees to enhance your landscape. Sweet Bay Magnolia: Lemon-scented flowers, dark green leaves and it’s evergreen nature makes this is good specimen plant. It is more tolerant of shade and grows 10 to 20 feet in the north. Crape Myrtle: White, pink, purple or deep red blooms with outstanding fall…
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Fast Spreading Plants You Should Get Rid Of Now
There are a lot of garden “spreaders” that are dropping seeds soon. If you don’t do some manual thinning now, next year is going to be bad. It’s fair to say that the goal of many gardeners is to create a self-sustaining yard. This means that each year, plants that will self-seed, perennialize or just…
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When To Cut Back Perennials
In the crunch of the annual fall cleanup, remember to make time for perennial clean up. Cutting back foliage protects flowering plants from disease and provides a clean start for regrowth. But many perennial plants are worth leaving up if they’re healthy, since letting them stand for winter can increase their hardiness and benefit wildlife.…
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Trees You Should Never Grow in Your Yard
Trees can add beauty and value to a home landscape – if you plant the right species and find the right spot for them. Here are trees you DON’T want to plant in the home landscape. Callery Pear: Beautiful white flowers in spring and burgundy foliage in fall. Problem is the structure is weak. Invasive!…
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Five Ways to Keep Your Lawn Alive During a Drought
Even if your yard looks dry and crispy, all is not lost. As summer reaches its peak, many parts of the country are blazing hot and bone dry. Extended periods of drought can put a lot of stress on your lawn. But if your grass already looks dry and crispy, it’s probably not dead. Even…
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“No Mow May”
Instead of “No Mow May,” Try “Slow Mow Summer” Mowing your lawn less often can be good for the environment, depending on how you do it. Benefits Lawns, mowed short, give us space for dogs and kids to play. They also keep our neighbors from making complaints to the town government or homeowneers’ association. But…
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Six Cheap (Or Free) Ways to Increase Your Home’s Value!
You Don’t Have to Spend a Fortune to Increase Your Home Value Owning a home is an investment. Although owning a house will never give you a better return on other investments, the combination of building equity in a large asset that reliably appreciates and not pouring money into the black hole known as “rent”…
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How to Test Your Soil and Why You Should
You can use an at-home kit, or send out some soil to be professionally tested When it comes to your plants, you can’t cheat. If you cut a corner, the results are going to be felt in your garden. Stressed plants that are susceptible to disease, produce less fruit and fruit that tastes less awesome.…
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What to Start Seeding and Planting in March
March is finally your time, gardeners – but you still want to be selective about what you seed this early. If you are a gardening enthusiast, you have been waiting anxiously throughout February to start putting seeds in soil. March is finally your time, but you still want to be selective about what you seed…