Can landscapes be installed in the summer in the Dallas area? The answer is yes, as long as your sprinkler coverage is good and you water the new plants correctly. We installed this landscape a few weeks ago. Since then we’ve had 100 plus degree weather and no rain. Not a single plant is stressed […]
This week I asked landscape architect extraordinaire and friend of mine, David Daigle, to give a little information on how to create a great landscape design: Your home can be just as beautiful as any artist’s painting by taking a tip from the painter – create a frame around your home. Consider the bulk of […]
We’re starting a landscape installation in Sachse today. The home has a beautiful stone border but it is too close to the house to allow us to create depth so we’re extending the beds out in front of the stone by eight feet. The builder also used lots of dwarf burfords which are great plants […]
After spending 30 years repairing sprinklers and installing landscape in North Dallas, what I have noticed is there are very few drainage problems. What I find most of the time when I’m called to fix a drainage issue is we have an over-watering issue instead. When there is a real drainage issue most people want […]
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 […]
We’ve cleaned up our mess and the beds already look better. We’ve also started re-laying the edgestone border.
Mrs. V. In Richardson likes her front landscape so much we’re doing her backyard landscape installation. Our first step is pulling out all of the old plants. We call this progress!