by Chris | Dec 28, 2017 | Advertising, Exterior, Flowers, Home, landscape design, landscaping, Maintenance, seasonal, shrubs, Small business, social, Uncategorized, winter
I couldn’t wait to get back to blogging after a hectic Christmas weekend. It’s good to be stationary after a travel filled few days, especially since the Northeast is in the middle of our first deep freeze of the season. It is -13 degrees outside with the...
by Chris | Dec 20, 2017 | Advertising, Exterior, Flowers, Garden, Home, landscape design, landscaping, Maintenance, Scams, seasonal, shrubs, Small business, Uncategorized
As a small business owner, I know in order to succeed you need to advertise. Potential clients and leads don’t often just fall in your lap, unless you have a top notch website, knowledge of SEO, and know how to put it to work for you. Otherwise, you need to...
by Chris | Dec 18, 2017 | Exterior, Flowers, Home, landscape design, landscaping, Maintenance, Uncategorized
I work on hundreds of gardens throughout the season and I have to say with 100% certainty, I don’t recall one black flower in any of them. In fact, when hired to create a garden space for a client, I never think of adding black to the landscape. Shame on me!!!...
by Chris | Dec 13, 2017 | Exterior, Flowers, Home, landscape design, landscaping, Maintenance, Uncategorized
Yes, there are products out there that will give you that instant gratification in regards to ridding pests from your garden. Spray a little chemical here, spray a little chemical there and voila…. beautiful flowers, stems and hardy leaves. I’m going to...
by Chris | Dec 8, 2017 | Exterior, Flowers, Garden, Home, landscape design, landscaping, Maintenance, seasonal, shrubs, Uncategorized
There is nothing like looking throughout a garden’s landscape to see these little remarkable machines at work. Their attention to detail and work ethic are unmatched, but sadly their under attack. According to the USDA, pesticides play a key roll in their...
by Chris | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
As the dog days of winter approach it’s easy for gardeners in zones 4 and 5 to become green thumb deprived. We look out our windows to a barren landscape, all perennial gardens have been put to bed and the annuals have been pulled and composted. Now we wait and...
