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
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 […]
Another Village Green Yard of the Month sign – This one’s in Richardson. I really do have the best guys around!
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 […]
It’s the afternoon of day two and we’re almost done. We’ll be back tomorrow morning to clean off the stones and we’ll be finished.
Mrs. V. In Richardson liked the flagstone we laid on her side patio a couple of weeks ago so much she asked us to lay it over her back patio too. We started this morning and we’ve already made quite a bit of progress. We already have about 1/3 of it cut and laid into […]
This Allen St. Augusine lawn may have been damaged by using too many chemicals. It is always a tough balance with St. Augustine to apply enough weed control to prevent or kill weeds but not so much that lawn becomes damaged. Since it is a tropical plant it is already stressed from too much heat […]
This is a photo of a Plano lawn that suffered quite a bit of freeze damage this year. It’s actually filling in nicely. It still has some large patches missing but because of our lawn fertilization program the St. Augustine surrounding it is healthy and in a few weeks will start filling back in. If […]
In the fall and early winter we use Simazine and you can see the results from those pre-emergent applications in this Garland lawn. We were able to create a line between our nice, weed free lawn and the field of pure weeds next door. In March or April you can apply Pendemethlyn to prevent spring […]
This winter we spent over 100 hours below freezing which hasn’t happened in Dallas for a couple of decades. An easy method of checking to see if your plants survived is to take a knife and lightly scrape the bark of the small limbs toward the tips. If it’s brown like the one in the […]