LandscapExperts Tip of the Week, June 27

Renovating Overgrown Plantings

Landscape renovation may be called for in the case of overgrown plantings. Plants may have been originally planted too close together in order to create an “instant landscape” effect. Even professionally landscaped properties may suffer from this challenge. After a few years, the plants will have overgrown the space allotted, and be growing into buildings or crowding each other.

● Plants may be pruned to provide a quick and temporary solution.

● Crabapple LandscapExperts can permanently thin a planting, removing the weakest plants. This will allow for better air circulation, increased sunlight and more water from irrigation and rainfall to reach the roots of the remaining plants.

● Crowded plants that are still in good shape can be dug and relocated to a more suitable location on the property, allowing the remaining plants to flourish, and the relocated plant to thrive in a more appropriate spot.

Let the LandscapExperts advise you about plantings on your properties.

LandscapExperts Tip of the Week, June 20

A landscape renovation project can require considerable energy and resources -- new plants, permanent hardscaping features, labor, -- therefore a consultation with Crabapple is a great first step. Overplanted or neglected landscapes will come back to life under the care of Crabapple's LanscapExperts.
Property managers may wish to refine or renovate the landscape:

• when a quick, just-to-get-by design was done initally
• if cheap, common or poor-quality plants were used
• where a poor soil prep and planting job was done.

Discuss all the facets of a landscape renovation with Crabapple LandscapExperts. 

LandscapExperts Tip of the Week, June 13

Property managers and residents are continually realizing and appreciating the value that a good landscape can add to a a community, as more and more people turn to Crabapple LandscapExperts for landscape renovation and maintenance.
The inclusive term "landscape renovation" includes many activities:

• plants may need to be moved: relocation; 
• they  may need to be pruned or nursed back to health: rejuvenation; 
• planting beds may need to be built again: reconstuction; 
• bed boundaries may need to be delineated: redesign. 
• older forms of plants more prone to insect and disease problems or limited to only a couple of weeks of bloom may need to be removed and sometimes replaced.

All these "redo" terms summarize the renovation of landscapes, and the LandscapExperts at Crabapple excel at this art and science of a horticultural renewal. 

LandscapExperts Tip of the Week, June 6

The final Principle of Landscape Design to be covered in these Landscape Tips is Scale. Scale is the visual size relationship between component parts of a design. For example, a huge pine tree that towers over a little one-story house would be out of scale. Better suited might be a flowering Dogwood, or one of the larger Japanese Maples.