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Southlake Landscaping Company Harvest Landscape offers tips for how to handle Fall and Early Winter landscape maintenance.

Here are some tips for the month of November that will help keep your garden looking it’s best!

1. Install Seasonal Color for Fall and Winter if you haven’t already. 
2. Now is a great time to plant trees! Root systems grow and develope at this time. More rain and cooler temperatures allow trees to get a head start on spring!
3. Install Winter Rye. Winter Rye thrives in the cooler months, leaving you with a fresh and green lawn.
4. Call us today to set up a time for installation.
5. Don’t forget to mulch all garden beds. Winterize your lawn. Get a jump on spring weeds.
6. Look out for Brown Spot Fungus in your lawn. If you suspect your lawn is infected, contact your consultant as soon as possible. An anti-fungal spray should be applied.
7. Remember to call and schedule an irrigation check and repair so that your system is functioning at 100%
8. Also, don’t forget to have your rain and freeze sensors checked!

Southlake Landscaping Company Harvest Landscape offers personal consultations and free estimates. Contact Jeannie Rios at Harvest Landscape at 817-236-5296 or fill out a free consultation form on theHarvest Landscape website.  You can also sign up to receive a free newsletter.

Colleyville Landscaping Company (Harvest Landscape) offers tips for Early Spring maintenance that will help to make your yard more beautiful and fun for outdoor living.

February is the month to get ready for spring by getting your garden in shape. March will be quickly approaching and will be time for those early season annuals.

1. Water your plants sparingly. This time of year shrubs and trees require little water and cooler temperatures help your beds will stay moist longer. Even your annuals, like pansies and violas, don’t need a lot. However, it is important to make sure your beds are moist if a hard freeze is expected. In this case, the moisture in the beds actually helps to insulate the roots of the plants.
2. Late February is also a good time to trim back perennials, grasses, and rose bushes if you haven’t done so already. This helps these plants by getting the old, dead foliage out of the way so that it is easier for the new growth to come out in March when it starts to warm up.
3. Late February and early March is also a good time to spread slow release fertilizer on your trees and shrubs, and will give them the extra boost they need when they their start their new leave flush in mid to late March
4. March 15th is a good time to start planting if you plan to install early spring annuals like; Alyssum, Petunias, Dianthus, or Snapdragons. Just remember that these plants will have to be protected from a hard freeze. An old blanket, sheet, or piece of burlap makes a good protection cloth. Using plastic is not a good option as it will still burn the leaves of the plants
5. Late March, early April is a good time to rejuvenate your bedding soil if you decided not to plant winter annuals, and are not planning on planting any early spring annuals. Doing this gets your beds ready so in April, when you are ready to start planting, the dirt work is already done and you can focus on picking out your spring annuals.
6. Prune trees and shrubs in order to ensure your tree’s healthy appearance
7. Check evergreens for sign of desiccation.

- Travis Hancock, Landscape Consultant

Colleyville Landscaping Company Harvest Landscape offers personal consultations and free estimates. Contact Jeannie Rios at Harvest Landscape at 817-236-5296 or fill out a free consultation form on theHarvest Landscape website.  You can also sign up to receive a free newsletter.

Fort Worth Landscaping Company (Harvest Landscape) is expert at handling difficult and challenging landscape delimmas through creative and innovative designs.

Dilemma Design – What can be done with my drainage problem? How can I enhance the view from my patio? The Reed’s called Harvest Landscape to ask for help. Their next door neighbor changed the slope of their back yard, which created a drainage problem for the Reed’s. The neighbor’s property was already at a higher elevation than the Reed’s. Instead of the rain water draining along the side of the house, it now ran down a hill into the patio of the Reed’s home. The Reed’s were already thinking about enhancing their backyard. They expressed an interest in adding a waterfall in order to create a serene and relaxing environment while they sat on their patio or looked out their back window.

Above is the “BEFORE” picture of the Reed’s back yard, while standing on the patio.

The “AFTER” picture above shows the incredible new view from the patio! Serene and inviting.

Harvest Landscape asked questions and listened to the Reed’s ideas. Working together, Harvest created a tiered waterfall, rock stairs that lead to the top of their hill, and a tiered rock structure in which beautiful plants would display a cascading view. With the boulders in place, the waterfall and stairs finished, Harvest employees began work on planting the landscape with beautiful plants. You can see the natural dry creek bed in front of the stone structure, which will divert water from the patio to run alongside the stone structure, thereby creating a system that moves the water away from the house while creating a serene environment. We resolved the drainaige issues and turned a problem into an oasis. As you can see from the pictures below, the Reeds now have a beautiful new landscape they can escape to and enjoy year round.

Harvest created a customized stone stairway, and dug out the side of the hill in order to divert the water draining into the patio.

Harvest was able to create a three-tiered waterfall, which enhances the beauty of their outdoors while creating the wonderful sound of water running.

The natural dry creek bed will divert water from the patio to run alongside the stone structure

This is the view from the top of the stairs. The overflow of water created when there is a heavy rain is diverted underground.

Fort Worth Landscaping Company Harvest Landscape offers personal consultations and free estimates. Contact Jeannie Rios at Harvest Landscape at 817-236-5296 or fill out a free consultation form on the Harvest Landscape website.  You can also sign up to receive a free newsletter.

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