The homeowner was hot. She took our foreman over to her row of plumbagos that we had just pruned and began raking him over the coals. “You cut too much off!” she yelled. “It will take years for them to grow back. You even cut off all the flowers!” Never…
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I had to do a lot of convincing to persuade the homeowner that pink grass would make his landscape look fantastic, but as soon as I said he’d never have to mow it, he was sold. I’m talking about Muhlenbergia capillaris, commonly known as Pink Muhly grass. This popular ornamental…
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We knew the homeowner was joking when he called the brown spots on his lawn “crop circles caused by aliens." But he did have a point. Brown spots do seem to come out of nowhere and seemingly overnight. But there’s really no mystery to them, and with all this rain…
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The rain started pouring and I had a decision to make: either tell our landscape-maintenance crew to finish mowing as fast as it could, or just call it a day and come back the next morning. The showers slowed for a bit, but the skies didn’t look good and I…
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