Today’s landscape spotlight illustrates how much our work can transform a home. Michael and Melissa D’s home was the definition of a blank slate. But their property was amazing with a lot of potential, and as soon as David (our landscape architect) and I started discussing the project I knew we had the opportunity to create […]
The past week I’ve had time in the office to answer many fall related questions that I think would benefit all our customers. I hope you find the answers to these common fall questions helpful! What should I do with the leaves on my lawn and landscape? Short answer is that leaves left on your […]
Each year there’s a surefire way I can tell fall has arrived in North Texas beyond shorter days and the cooler night-time temperatures. We start getting calls about brown rings (or patches) in our customer’s lawns. These brown rings are called Brown Patch and is a fungus that attacks St. Augustine in the fall (and […]
I’m excited about showcasing this project for Barry T because it illustrates that Village Green has the capabilities to handle a wide variety of landscape jobs. Barry, who lives in Richardson, is a single dad who doesn’t have a lot of time to spend working on his lawn and landscape. He also didn’t want to […]
The State Fair of Texas starts Friday, which means fall has arrived in North Texas! I kid, fall officially began last week, but with a daytime high temperature in Dallas of 95 degrees on the first day of fall, I didn’t want anyone to change their watering schedule just yet. Typically in North Texas we […]
Troy S., is a typical Village Green landscape customer. He takes a tremendous amount of pride in the overall appearance of his home, but with a hectic work schedule, he doesn’t have the time to dedicate to landscaping. This has resulted to Troy’s landscape taking on what he called a ‘hodgepodge’ feel which detracted from […]
Lawn aeration is an extremely simple process that anyone can do to their lawn. Whether you want to do it yourself or hire Village Green boils down to the amount of time you want to invest punching thousands of smalls holes in your turf. If you would like for us to do it for you, […]
Jim and Kris S. have lived in their home in an older part of Dallas for many years. The couple engaged Village Green to help design and install a landscape for the front of the property that would update the look of their home as well as help a few problem areas. Since the home […]
Drought stress is almost always caused by under-watering. In my experience, the two likely culprits are not watering long enough and/or unknown sprinkler system issues that cause under-watering. If you are unsure if you have drought stress, you can watch my short drought stress video here. It will show you the telltale signs. If you do […]
The only thing hotter than our weather at this time of year are our phones! We are getting bombarded with calls and emails about watering guidelines and sprinkler repairs. Long time readers of my Quick Tip series know I’m a big believer in education which is why I wanted to send you our summer watering […]