The best landscape design firms and landscape management companies typically associate with top tier growers to maintain consistent quality in the plant materials they specify for your garden. Although growers cultivate new varieties of disease-resistant, high-quality garden plants each year, extreme weather conditions can cause problems with even the hardiest of nursery stock. Following an […]
Protect Your Landscape Design Investment: Hire a Landscape Management Company
Why spend money on a landscape management company? Because gardens are not a “set and forget” affair. Your landscape is a living, ever-changing environment that evolves over time and needs consistent care to achieve its full potential. Think about it. You’ve invested time and emotional energy—and money—into designing your new outdoor living space and gardens. […]
A Garden of Your Own
Five of the Healthiest Foods your Garden can Produce: Owning a personal garden can be a rewarding experience. The hobby of gardening is the most popular pastime across the globe. Owning your own garden means that you are in charge of knowing exactly what chemicals, if any, are used in the produce that you and […]
Garden Maintenance: Why We Mulch
Mulching does for suburban landscapes what a forest does naturally. Each year at the change of season, leaves fall to the ground and provide a protective covering for tree roots. As the leaves and other cast off tree parts decompose, they nourish the soil with organic matter. That’s why mulching is on our basic garden […]
Garden Care: Common Northern Virginia Garden Plant Diseases
Five Garden Plant Diseases: What they look like and what they do to your plants Of the many types of garden plant diseases, Surrounds garden care specialist Margaret Miley says these five are the ones she sees most frequently in our Maryland and Northern Virginia gardens: Sooty Mold Powdery Mildew Anthracnose Cankar Needle Cast Truth […]