Landscaping Boca Raton FL
Whether your are planning out a landscape for the first time or looking for new tips and trends in landscape maintenance, then you’ve come to the right place. Learn more about lawn care, gardening tips, yard and garden planning and more.
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Tropical Plants Boca Raton FL
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Solar Lights Boca Raton FL
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Green Lawn Mowers Boca Raton FL
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Ornamental Grass Boca Raton FL
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Planting Bulbs Boca Raton FL
Bulbs grow best in a location with full sun. Choose planting beds where bulb foliage will receive at least 6 hours of sun during spring through summer. Most bulb species also prefer well-drained, not soggy, soil.
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Crab Apple Boca Raton FL
Crab apples bloom in early to mid-spring, producing masses of pink, red, or white flowers, depending on the variety. Some also have attractive purplish red leaves. Many types also produce small, red or yellow edible fruits that are tart but excellent for jelly. Read on and find more information about this plant in Boca Raton.
Fertilizing a Tree Boca Raton FL
Most landscape trees growing in their natural environments rarely need fertilizer in Boca Raton. However, trees growing in infertile soil along roadsides, in urban areas, and around new homes may need extra nutrients to keep growing strong. Apply in early spring or autumn when roots are actively growing.
Grapevine Boca Raton FL
It's a wonder more gardeners in Boca Raton don't plant grapevines. Just 2 years after planting, you can be sampling your own grapes; in 3 years, you can be harvesting up to 15 pounds of grapes from each vine -- plenty for eating and making jellies, juice, or wine.
Green Lawn Mowers Boca Raton FL
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Improving Clay Soil Boca Raton FL
If your garden has heavy clay soil, you know what a challenge it can pose to plants, not to mention gardeners in Boca Raton. Heavy clay drains slowly, meaning it stays saturated longer after rain or irrigation. Then, when the sun finally comes out and the soil dries, it forms a hard, cracked surface.
Landscaping Boca Raton FL
When you are landscaping your yard, it helps to choose a low-maintenance landscape that does not require too much upkeep. Landscape planning with an eye toward ground-coverings and plants that do not require much watering and trimming will reduce your landscape maintenance needs. Please read on for more information and resources that give you access to landscaping in Boca Raton, FL.
Making a Raised-Bed Garden Boca Raton FL
Since the soil can drain sooner and warm up faster in spring, they enable you to plant earlier in the season. You can make a garden of permanent or temporary raised beds in Boca Raton. Here's how.
Mulching Trees and Shrubs Boca Raton FL
Mulch helps minimize weeds, conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and make your yard in Boca Raton look good. Mulched plants generally grow much better than similar, unmulched plants in the same garden. The two basic kinds of mulch are organic, such as shredded leaves and bark, and inorganic, such as gravel.
Ornamental Grass Boca Raton FL
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Planting Bulbs Boca Raton FL
Bulbs grow best in a location with full sun. Choose planting beds where bulb foliage will receive at least 6 hours of sun during spring through summer. Most bulb species also prefer well-drained, not soggy, soil.
Planting Groundcover Boca Raton FL
Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate.
Planting Hedges and Screens Boca Raton FL
Most of us consider our yards and gardens an extension of our homes, and we look for sanctuary and privacy there. Plants can create living walls, which can be especially important in neighborhoods where homes are close together. Whether you can wait years for the screen to grow in place, or need a screen right away, you have many options in Boca Raton.
Plugging and Sprigging a Lawn Boca Raton FL
An inexpensive way to start a new warm-season lawn or patch an existing one is to plant plugs or sprigs in late spring to early summer in Boca Raton. Warm-season grasses, such as Bermuda, St. Augustine, and zoysia, spread easily from 2- to 3-inch sections of sod, called plugs, or bits of rooted or unrooted leafy grass runners, called sprigs.
Pruning a Hedge Boca Raton FL
Prune shrubs in a formal hedge to resemble a dense, smooth wall. Vigorous, rapidly growing shrubs need more frequent shearing than shrubs that grow more slowly in Boca Raton.
Pruning a Needle-Bearing Evergreen Boca Raton FL
Evergreens with needle-like foliage, called conifers, usually need pruning only to remove dead, damaged, or diseased limbs. You can also prune to keep their growth compact. Pruning methods vary depending on the conifer's branching habit in Boca Raton.
Pruning a Shrub Rose Boca Raton FL
Prune your roses to increase blooming and decrease disease and pest problems. Do most of your pruning in early spring just before new growth begins, but remove spent flowers and dead canes whenever they occur. The goal is to keep the center of the shrub free of twiggy, weak growth in Boca Raton.
Removing Lawn Thatch Boca Raton FL
Thatch, the buildup of dead grass between living grass and the soil, causes trouble for your lawn when it exceeds 1/2 inch thick. Excessive thatch prevents air, water, and nutrients from reaching plant roots. Cutting through and removing thatch improves your lawn's health in Boca Raton.
Renovating a Flowering Shrub Boca Raton FL
New growth is weak, and flower production decreases. To reduce the shrubs' size and width and rejuvenate them, follow these pruning techniques in Boca Raton.
Sedum Boca Raton FL
The succulent foliage of many types of sedum is topped by starry flowers in late summer and fall in Boca Raton. Low-growing types are perfect for rock gardens, while taller varieties thrive in perennial borders. Another common name is stonecrop.
Solar Lights Boca Raton FL
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Spirea Boca Raton FL
Spireas are small to medium sized deciduous shrubs that produce cascades of flowers in spring and summer. Among the easiest flowering shrubs to grow in Boca Raton, spireas are often used in foundation plantings, as hedges, and in perennial gardens. Most spireas bloom in late spring to midsummer.
Testing Soil Drainage and Texture Boca Raton FL
Texture describes the relative amounts of large, medium, and small particles "called sand, silt, and clay" in the soil. Water and nutrients move quickly through soil that has a sandy texture because more space exists between the larger soil particles.
Tropical Plants Boca Raton FL
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Watering Lawns and Gardens Boca Raton FL
One secret to achieving lush, healthy lawns and bountiful gardens is thorough, careful watering, which encourages deep, drought-resistant roots. Both the frequency and method of irrigation and amount of water required vary with your climate, soil, and plants' needs in Boca Raton.
Wisteria Boca Raton FL
Wisteria are vigorous, twining vines that bloom in spring in Boca Raton with huge, cascading flower clusters. Wisteria is notable not only for its attractive, fragrant flowers, but also for its vigorous growth. The vine may grow 10 feet or more in one year, and can easily overwhelm nearby plants and structures.