Landscape Property Maintenance

Got the time to buy the landscape equipment? Energy to get out there after work to cut the lawn, do annual spring & fall maintenance … take care of the tree trimming, garden edging, fertilising, aerating, buy the gas?   …. it’s like running a multi department landscaping business!

Too Much?

Maybe so, your backyard is always in need of attention but takes but too much personal time!

If you don’t want get the 100 per cent full property maintenance package consider:

  1. Give a way the lawn cutting, edge trimming and blower work!  The bigger the property the more important is this step. Then do not need a gas lawn mower nor a trimmer   .. always nice to have a gas blower around.
  2.  Gardens Up Keep.  You can keep this area, edging and attending to the garden can be done a need basis.  The larger the garden(s) consider giving away the spring and fall clean ups which take up a lot of man power hours, especially if it is only you,  and generates a lot of plant waste.
  3. Watch others do your Landscape and Property Maintenance from your chair on the front porch.

Life is good!

Backyard Maintenance Program Example: Possible List of  Lawn Applications:

Early spring – fertilizing – get the lawn growing and green
Mid spring – over seeding – fill in the lawn  new grass & thicken thin spots
Late spring – weed control (first of up to 4 visits)  – type/effectiveness depends on local laws

Early summer – weed control & fertilizing if needed
Mid summer – weed control if needed
Late summer – weed control if needed

Early fall – weed control if needed
Mid fall – over seeding & fertilizing

PS Winter snow and iced maintenance can be the same – Lot nicer to let a company blow or plow the snow on need basis, then you buying the equipment & maintain it.  Life is short!

 

 

 

 

Self Seeding Garden Plants?

List of Different Types of Self Seeding Plants

Featured is a Self Seeding Fox Glove,  which offers a great variety of different colored flowering plants.

Excellent place to start gardening with self seeding plants!

Photographed in early summer.Shown is a purchased “garden center Fox Glove” plant which produces lots of flowers over several weeks with the assistance of multiple flowering stems.

In the fall, it will self seed, let your garden do the some of the natural rebirth work!  You can harvest the seed pods over the summer. Replant Fox Gloves else where or give extra seeds to family, neighbors and friends.

Below the photos is handy a list of self seeding flowering plants that can save you some money when at the garden center.Got to plant them before summer comes! 

Here is a list of different self seeding plants, the pictures above are an example of foxglove flower, scientific name is (Digitalis purpurea)

Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

Borage (Borago officinalis)

Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

Honesty (Lunaria annua)

Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)

Phacelia tanacetifolia

Pot marigold (Calendula officinalis)

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)

Verbena bonariensis

Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica)

 

Rock Garden Planning

Colorful Example of a Rock Garden in mid Spring showing a variety of Flower arrangement ideas.

Landscape ideas can be the key to winning design! Scan Google’s internet images, some garden centers offer free design ideas and gardening services, also landscape garden related service companies can help you with idea layouts, pricing and selection costs.

P.S. Year of the Garden? Jack Up your garden Design with some use of different types & shapes of rocks, along with dash different varieties of eye catching flowers and small shrubs.

Wood Mulch Your Garden?

Resisting using wood mulch on your gardens because the wood pieces mix with you nice dark triple loam mix? Yup, that’s one of the downsides!

There are many mulch colors, a few Types of Mulches in bulk are Sawmill black, brown Cedar, white Pine, Playground mulch Utility, basic or uncolored natural utility mulch.

We get it! Consider adding mulch to dryer garden beds that need weed control and to retain water. Leaving other gardens with the black loam!

Mulch Garden Design Ideas

Mulch let’s you work with any shape you wish. These mulch gardens are freeform created by the brick outline which helps hold the mulch away from the earth where begonia flowers will be planted.

The garden edge has been edged and filled with mulch. Mulch can be ordered bulk, but we like the Scotts Mulch Deep Forest Brown over the years!

Potted Cedar Tree

Cedar trees planted in large pots is a fast way to dress up a large area of pavement or concrete and can be part of your landscape design.

Potted Evergreen Cedars trees are a fast and easy way to increase your home’s curb appeal with out committing yourself to a lot of digging!

P.S. Square planter is white plastic container about 2′ x 2′ x 20″ high (600x600x500mm) purchased at Lowes.ca

Cedar Trees Growth

Is this several cedars trees planted together?

No, as the pyramidal cedar grows several side branches will develop and increase the width at the base … if left untrimmed they will thrive a grow up looking like separate trees jammed together.

Planting Trees: When planting trees the significance of where they are planted does not seem to matter that much when they are small.

Years later mature trees in middle of your lakefront property may block your view of the lake and your properties relative value to future owners.

Garden Ideas with Driftwood

Driftwood fits perfectly with most garden designs and establishes an inspirational garden setting.

Hang it on the fence, move the piece around in different beds, plant flowers and trees around your found driftwood … it is a fast way to decorate your garden.

Finding Driftwood: At the beach is the cheapest way … but at your upscale garden center you may find they sell driftwood, some in cedar which can be rot resistant .. best call around first to your save time!

Landscape Design with Metal Bench

Landscaping designs and layouts are dynamic not static.

Over time, the tree behind the metal bench has over taken the area around the seating area. It is easier, cheaper and faster to trim the tree when the bench is bolted down on a pad.

Garden Design Tip: Trees that over hang benches and seating areas can be messy and may result in stains on clothing