Is your lawn a weedy mess? There’s still hope! A north Dallas lawn needs four things to be healthy and lush. Lots of sun, the correct amount of water, weed control to give the grass room to grow and fertilizer to give it nutrients to sustain the growth. If you have all four of those […]
When you plant a new tree you have to stake ir to keep it from falling over right? Not necessarily. A new tree should have a large enough rootball that it doesn’t need to be staked. What”s wrong with staking a tree? Take a look at the photo below in this Garland landscape and you’ll […]
Can you guess which of the two Richardson lawns has its fertilization done by Village Green? Hint: Ours is the green lawn…
Even after thirty years I still see things I’ve never seen before. A dog barking from the top of it’s roof is definitely something new. Who else has a job with this much entertainment?
Sometimes you might see a wet spot in your lawn and think it might be your sprinkler leaking but how do you know for sure? An easy way is to first make sure no water is running inside your house such as a washing machine. Find your meter and your backflow prevention device (the one […]
Mulch helps slow down weeds in beds. Bare dirt in beds like the one below in this Richardson landscape is just begging for weed seeds to land and take root. We’ll be installing 2″-3″ of fine shredded hardwood mulch and that will create a barrier that weeds have trouble penetrating and when they do it’s […]
Fescue is a good choice for grass in the shade. The tough part is you it has to be planted by seed (Fescue sod is expensive and hard to find) and you have to plant it when you’re not normally thinking about your landscape – fall and late winter. The best fescue lawns I have […]
Looking for a colorful shade annual? You won’t find anything more colorful than impatiens. These will easily reach 12″ and I’ve seen some reach 24″. Notice we massed them at the entrance of this Fairview landscape installation. That gave us great bang for our buck. Not long from now the perennials will kick in and […]
Here’s an example of freeze damage to a St. Augustine lawn in richardson probably from radiating off of the concrete. We’re going to use an 18-46-0 fertilizer made from dimonium phosphate to help the roots recover. We’re using this type of fertilizer instead of the normal ammonium nitrate because brown patch feeds off of nitrogen […]
This Richardson lawn is greening up nicely. Because it is a Bermuda lawn we’re using a 28-0-0 fertilizer and we already have applied our pre-emergent to keep out summer weeds like crabgrass. The St. Augustine part of the lawn received a 5-10-31 fertilizer to help root growth.