Cooking on the grill, playing with the kids or dogs in the backyard, sitting on the porch enjoying a quiet cup of coffee? The problem is mosquitoes are just waiting for you and your family and they’re not just painful, they can be dangerous. Our Mosquito Assassin Program is… • Safe around people, pets and […]
Village Green’s Tuesday Tip: We’re often asked, can a lawn be so far gone that you need to start over? The short answer is usually not. The lawn in this photo suffered what appears to be freeze and chinch bug damage. Back in February, when we got the call from the customer, this lawn was […]
I frequently get asked for proposals to re-sod St. Augustine. Most of the time the St. Augustine has been lost to poor watering and most of the time I tell the homeowner not to spend thousands of dollars on sod because the can grow it for free on their own. The photo below was taken […]
Today in Farmers Branch we’re continuing our cleanup. Juan is removing all of the debris leftover from tearing out the old plants. In a couple of hours we’ll start installing compost and tilling it in.
At least once per week this time of year I see a lawn that looks like this photo and when I ask why it looks so bad the answer is always “My city only lets us water two days per week”. Lawns don’t suffer from watering restrictions. They suffer from poor watering. It’s amazing to […]
Today we’re doing landscape installation in Farmers Branch. Juan and Ramon are tearing out the old, worn out landscape – including the rusted steel edging.
Fescue is a good choice for grass in the shade. The tough part is you it has to be planted by seed (Fescue sod is expensive and hard to find) and you have to plant it when you’re not normally thinking about your landscape – fall and late winter. The best fescue lawns I have […]
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 […]