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Beautiful Landscape Series - Planting Or Renovating Shrub Beds

4/20/2017

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A fresh look for your shrub and flower beds

At the beginning of Spring, after a long, cold winter, our shrub and planting beds can look messy, overgrown, and just plain worn out.  You step outside and take a look at the drab, dreary mess in front of you and you know it's time to landscape and make a change.  This is where shrub and planting bed renovation comes in.

Sometimes you notice that you have overgrown shrubs or perennials that need to be split up or thinned.  Perhaps you have a withering rose bush or a shrub that hasn't been doing well in its current spot or is just not performing as you expected, it might be time to move shrubs, bushes, or plants around a bit or get rid of them altogether and start from scratch. Whether you just do a simple cosmetic clean up, re-edge, and fresh mulch or go all out and have beautiful new stone edging added to your shrub bed and have new shrubs and perennial plants added to your beds, both make a lovely difference.

The Landscape Before shrub bed renovation

There are always benefits to updating and renovating your shrub beds and planting beds.  The obvious is that it just makes you feel good to walk through your yard and see everything clean and fresh with new shrub and flower plantings as well as fresh mulch.  Another definite benefit to shrub/planting bed renovation is the improvement of the curb appeal of your home and property.  Whether you plan to stay in your home or put it on the market, a well groomed landscape is an investment worth making.

The Landscape After shrub bed renovation

The difference is truly stunning in a freshly renovated shrub bed.  The months of April and May are the best time to make a beautiful difference in your landscape, shrub and planting beds.  Everyone loves a good makeover. 
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Spring Plantings - Planting Colorful Flowers To Brighten Your Landscape

3/1/2017

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We're all ready for a little color in our lives

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​March is here and after a gray winter we are all eager to see some delightful blasts of color in our landscape.  When I think of Easter and Mothers Day, I think of Spring colors.  Those beautiful Tulips, Crocus, Daffodils, and Hyacinths are some of the classic favorites. 
 
Often, I have received a lovely potted plant for the holiday, it's full of color and then it fades…now what?  Well, it’s time to cut back the plants and remove those bulbs.  You can either keep them in a mesh bag for the summer and plant them in the Fall or just go ahead and plant those bulbs as part of your landscape for outdoor beauty in the following Spring.
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Getting outdoors and planting gorgeous and colorful flowers to brighten our landscape is something we are all ready to do by March or April.  One of my favorites are Pansies.  There are so many varieties of color and beauty and Pansies also like cooler weather.  They are perfect for early Spring planting.


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    My name is Jim Dean

    I have been a licensed Arborist for over 20 years.  I have a passion for Arboriculture and would like to pass along my experiences and knowledge that I've gained over the years to you.

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White Oak Tree & Landscape, LLC, 33 Ezra St., North Haven, CT  06473   203-654-6345   HIC.0645599   B-3179
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