Garden, Landscaping

If you are an average homeowner it might be very difficult to know when your trees need to be trimmed or pruned. Aside from the obvious appearance of the tree it may be difficult to understand why they need trimming in the first place. However, you should know that there are very many benefits that your trees will reap by just being trimmed and pruned.

Here are a few degrees of tree trimming:

Standard pruning - This method of pruning involves a bit heavier cutting and ...

Severe winds, harsh storms and wood-boring bugs can brutally assault your trees.

Ultimately, certain problems like these can kill a tree.

Even if your tree has died from an inadequate water or nutrient supply, you should still consider having it removed.

If you notice a tree might be dying, you should call an arborist to assess it. The sooner you catch the problem, the less costly tree removal is - and you may actually save it. ...

Whether you're growing a fall food garden or tending your backyard tropicals, frost changes everything. When it arrives, and how cold those first early mornings are, dictate how long plants will survive outdoors. First frost is a figment of the early morning, and the coldest point is always that hour just before dawn when the freeze comes.

If you study the lay of frost on your yard or property, you'll find it may not occur uniformly. At night, cold air is ...

Fall's cooler temperatures and moderate rains create a time frame for getting cool-season fescue lawns back in shape. Here are some tips on the best ways to get your lawn green and growing again.

Lawn-care tips

Seed selection. When selecting fescue grass seed for lawn renovation or over-seeding a mature lawn, read the label that gives the content of the bag. Look for a product that contains several different types of fescue to avoid a ...

Many homeowners at some point have had to face some landscaping problems that they thought wouldn’t be easily fixed.

This should however not be the case as there exists landscape designers who could bail out one who is facing these problems. Landscape designers have the required expertise and experience in dealing with tough to deal with outdoor spaces.

These individuals have practical skills and the required knowledge to transform an outdoor ...

Trees are responsible for massive damages occurring year in year out in many homes.

Most of the damages are occasioned by tall trees that have decaying roots.

These problems could have been prevented had someone thought of this much earlier and set up measures to timely deal with them.

There is a need to inform homeowners about pointers to a tree whose roots are likely to give way to prevent some of the damages that are caused ...