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Grass Choices For Better Arlington Heights Lawn Maintenance

All the time and effort you exhaust for your Arlington Heights lawn maintenance will go to waste if the grass in your lawn doesn’t suit the suburb’s shade and weather conditions. Hence, when you’ve done everything– chemical and organic pesticides and fertilizers– to ensure the upkeep of your lawn and the grasses still wither and […]

Safety First For Your Arlington Heights Lawn Mowing

Arlington Heights lawn mowing is a garden activity homeowners engage in on almost all seasons, except during winter. As the climate of Arlington Heights fluctuates between extreme heat and extreme cold, its residents are meticulous in doing their lawn maintenance, and thus depend on professionals to handle their yards. As times are harder, most are […]

Tips on Proper Palatine Lawn Mowing Through the Seasons

Because it maintains not only your lawn’s appearance but also its health, Palatine lawn mowing is a gardening task you mustn’t take for granted. Apart from doing it properly, you should do it at a time when it’s needed. Cutting your lawn very short for your Palatine lawn mowing might seem like a shortcut to […]

What to Consider When Getting Palatine Lawn Maintenance Services

Unless you’re extremely passionate about gardening, Palatine lawn maintenance can be a drudgery you’d rather avoid. It includes fertilizing, mowing, watering and controlling pests at varying degrees. So if you’re not gifted with a green thumb or sufficient time and patience, the green of your grass might succumb to the unruly Chicago climate and turn […]

Winterizing For Your Arlington Heights Landscaping

What most people complain about Chicago is the harshness of its winters, whose temperatures drop to as low as an unbearably cold 20 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s not only a problem for Chicagoans, especially those living in the northern suburbs like Arlington Heights. It’s also a problem for lawns and plants lying on the yards of […]

Pruning Popular Fruit Trees

Pruning an Apple Tree The primary purpose of pruning any fruit tree is to promote growth and stimulate a quality harvest and fruit production. An added benefit of pruning is that it clears away parts of a tree that may have been by a severe storm, disease or insects. INSTRUCTIONS: (For this pruning job you\’ll […]

Reasons to Give People Flowers

One of the oldest gifts in the world is flowers. They can be given to another for any reason; apologies, get well wishes, to tell someone they love them, and more. Some people do not even need a reason to give them, they just do it out of sentiment or simple love. It is a […]

Get Instant Curb Appeal With the Proper Landscape Design

What is the most important things that goes into a home is actually on the outside. Landscape design gives your home curb appeal and helps it stand out from the rest, helps to beautify it, while at the same time giving it a unique appearance that cannot be imitated. So, if you live in a […]

A Primary For Training and Pruning Plants

Ah, the landscape is full of autumn colors, cooler weather and time for pruning. This article is a basic guide for training and pruning your fruit or nut trees from adolescents to maturity. Also, I present a simple chart (see below) of recommended time frames for pruning/training, task to be performed on a variety of […]

How They Work: Retaining Walls

Retaining walls are structures built with the intention of holding back earth from moving. They are commonly used for stabilization of slopes and to make useful areas out of different elevations. For example, terraces for buildings, roads, railways, and agriculture. The walls are designed to resist any lateral pressure from soil when there is a […]