- Mar 20 2024
- Landscaping, Spring
- 2
The Environmental Value & Benefits of a Healthy, Well-Maintained Lawn
March 20, 2024 Landscaping, Spring 2

The weather teetered between lovely and tumultuous as if someone, unknowingly, kept leaning against the light switch. In a moment, a lovely Spring day became a stormy Winter day, and back and forth it went. Nature’s apparent confusion would…
- Mar 13 2024
- Landscaping, Spring
- 1
The Health Benefits of Gardening
March 13, 2024 Landscaping, Spring 1

The sweeping sky reflected in a small Spring puddle collected in a hole in the asphalt. For a moment, it held the heavens, and the ordinary became extraordinary. Enchanting nature was again beckoning us outdoors into her captivating and therapeutic…
- Mar 6 2024
- Landscaping, Spring
- 1
Beautiful Lawns Begin in Spring
March 6, 2024 Landscaping, Spring 1

The once lethargic and hushed landscape became frenetic and boisterous with the jubilant sound of chirping and twittering birds who seemed to have a season’s worth of gossip to share. The squirrels too descended in mass from the trees…
- Feb 28 2024
- Landscaping, Spring
- 2
First Steps: Mulch
February 28, 2024 Landscaping, Spring 2

Spring ephemerals burst forth from the thawing ground as swelling buds adorned the trees. Whether March comes in like a lion or a lamb seems insignificant now, as Spring is well on her way. Along with Spring Clean Ups…
- Feb 21 2024
- Landscaping, Spring
- 1
First Steps: Spring Clean Ups
February 21, 2024 Landscaping, Spring 1

Like a receding glacier, Winter began to wither and melt, leaving behind a scarred and battered landscape. Its tenuous grasp was loosening, and its legacy becoming more apparent, but March would surely deliver us unto Spring. Spring officially arrives March…
- Feb 14 2024
- Landscaping, Spring
- 2
Sing for Your Spring
February 14, 2024 Landscaping, Spring 2

February arrived with sun upon her shoulders and Spring upon her lips. The distinct and dulcet tones of the bird song was an inclination that the season of renewal is not so very distant as the groundhog predicted. Winter…
- Feb 7 2024
- Landscaping, Spring
- 2
Getting to the Root of It
February 7, 2024 Landscaping, Spring 2

Swelling buds and burgeoning bulbs dappled the landscape with the power and promise of Spring. Soon the muddied, desolate earth would be replaced with color and life, and the barren trees would fill the sky with their lush canopies. In…
- May 3 2023
- Landscaping, Spring
- 2
Girls Gone Wild: Native Plants for Mom
May 3, 2023 Landscaping, Spring 2

With May’s prudence and eventual benevolence, we will finally be able to exhale as warming temperatures mean we can soon begin to plant. May, after all, means Mother’s Day, and Mother’s Day means flowers, so what better way to honor…
- Apr 26 2023
- Landscaping, Spring
- 2
Interpreting the Secret Language of Weeds
April 26, 2023 Landscaping, Spring 2

The air was slight and gauzy one day, and leaden and damp the next as Spring fought to get a foot hold. Nevertheless, trees were beginning to leaf out as spring ephemerals faded, and plants were pushing forth green…
- Apr 19 2023
- Landscaping, Spring
- 2
Earth Day: 5 Easy Ways to Celebrate
April 19, 2023 Landscaping, Spring 2

Sloughing off the final olive-drab layers, downy-white flowers unfurled upon the Bradford Pear as the Redbud’s ethereal blooms cast a cheery glow unto the scene. Swelling buds and spring ephemerals dotted the landscape as the grass grew green and lush. …