Month: April 2011

Lawn a weedy mess?

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 […]
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Tree stakes are rarely good

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 […]
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Mulch helps beds

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 […]
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Impatiens are a good shade annual

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 […]
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St. Augustine still shows freeze damage

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 […]
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Richardson lawn greening up

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.
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