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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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Hail in Dallas

You never know what Dallas weather is going to throw at us. The hail last night shredded these poor begonias in Richardson and even by 4 in the afternoon this pile of hail in the corner of Dallas atrium still hadn’t melted
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How to use annuals in your landscape

You don’t have to use a ton of annuals in your beds to get great bang for your buck.  Our Plano landscape is using annuals grouped where we want to call the most attention – the entrance.  Putting annuals in long thin strips along the border of your beds is more expensive and is much […]
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Azalea Bark Scale on crape myrtle

Here’s something we’re seeing a lot more of – azalea bark scale on crepe myrtles.  It looks like the tip of a cotton swab but it’s actually an insect.  Our solution is a deep root feeding with an insecticide and fungicide along with a slow release fertilizer.  The tree will take the insecticide and fungicide […]
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