Category: Beautification
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Gardening Tasks to Tackle in March
It’s time to clean, test, prune, and plant your garden. Here are a few gardening tasks to tackle in March. Happy Gardening!!
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Cut Down on Mowing With a Clover Lawn
Mow less and benefit wildlife with a clover lawn! Learn the basics about this increasingly popular and polllinator friendly lawn option. Imagine taking a step in your bare feet into a backyard brimming with pillowy clover. You can make this a reality. There’s keen interest in replacing turf grass with a clover lawn. One can…
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Fast Growing Trees for Your Yard
Some suggestions for fast growing trees to enhance your landscape. Sweet Bay Magnolia: Lemon-scented flowers, dark green leaves and it’s evergreen nature makes this is good specimen plant. It is more tolerant of shade and grows 10 to 20 feet in the north. Crape Myrtle: White, pink, purple or deep red blooms with outstanding fall…
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When To Cut Back Perennials
In the crunch of the annual fall cleanup, remember to make time for perennial clean up. Cutting back foliage protects flowering plants from disease and provides a clean start for regrowth. But many perennial plants are worth leaving up if they’re healthy, since letting them stand for winter can increase their hardiness and benefit wildlife.…
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Five Ways to Keep Your Lawn Alive During a Drought
Even if your yard looks dry and crispy, all is not lost. As summer reaches its peak, many parts of the country are blazing hot and bone dry. Extended periods of drought can put a lot of stress on your lawn. But if your grass already looks dry and crispy, it’s probably not dead. Even…
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“No Mow May”
Instead of “No Mow May,” Try “Slow Mow Summer” Mowing your lawn less often can be good for the environment, depending on how you do it. Benefits Lawns, mowed short, give us space for dogs and kids to play. They also keep our neighbors from making complaints to the town government or homeowneers’ association. But…
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Six Cheap (Or Free) Ways to Increase Your Home’s Value!
You Don’t Have to Spend a Fortune to Increase Your Home Value Owning a home is an investment. Although owning a house will never give you a better return on other investments, the combination of building equity in a large asset that reliably appreciates and not pouring money into the black hole known as “rent”…
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Why You Need an Oak Tree in Your Backyard
Just one oak tree provides shelter and food for hundreds of bird and butterfy species. Plus, it offers a shady escape in your backyard. Native trees offer incredible benefits for wildlife, so it’s more important than ever to plant an oak tree. Oak Tree Wildlife Benefits The oak tree is indeed mighty when it comes…
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Protect Your Plants Before a Freeze
Three Things To Do to Protect Your Plants Before a Freeze Much of the U.S. is entering freeze season. I’m not talking a light morning frost, but a full-on freeze. While ideally we would all be planting natives that are well-accustomed to our local climate, it’s not always realistic. We like what we like and…