Year: 2019

Selecting The Best Ice Melt Products For Your Home

Not All Ice Melt Products Are Right In Every Situation One of the questions our customers ask us the most is “Which ice melt products should we use”? Some products melt ice better than others, some are safe on concrete and some are not, and which ones will not harm plants. To give you the answer, we took a trip to Home Depot to see which products are readily available.

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Recent Landscape Projects Showcase – Fall 2019

A Showcase Of Some Of Our Recent Landscape Projects It has been another busy fall here at Allentuck Landscaping Co. We are grateful for all of the wonderful project we have had the pleasure to be a part of and wanted to share them with you. Front Garden Project in Gaithersburg, Maryland This project was the second one we completed for this customer. Last year we designed and built a

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5 Great Ideas For Creating A Beautiful Paver Patio

A Paver Patio Add Value and Enjoyment To Any Home Pavers offer a lot of flexibility when it comes to patio design. There are tons of different styles and colors to choose from, they can be used in many very interesting combinations, and it is possible to add outdoor living features that will make your patio uniquely your own. However you plan to use your paver patio, the following ideas

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Prepare Your Patio For Winter

A Few Useful Tips To Prepare Your Patio For Winter Your patio is our outdoor living room and being outside, requires a little pro-active preparation to protect it and the furnishings on it from winter. Following these simple guidelines to prepare your patio for winter and you will assure that your patio will look good for a very long time. Clean off leaves and debris as often as possible to

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5 Worst Pieces of Advice About Lawn Care

We’ve Debunked 5 Lawn Care Advice Myths There is a lot of bad lawn care advice floating around out there about lawn care. Some of it is urban myth. Some of it is spread by “know it alls”. Some of it is just a plain old fashioned cop out. We want to set the record straight on these lawn care myths once and for all so you can get your

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Our Guide To Fall Flowers For The Garden

Keep The Color Coming With Fall Flowers  Just because fall has arrived does not mean the garden cannot have lots of color. In Montgomery County, Maryland area, many fall flowers will bloom well into the approaching winter. Some, like pansies, will even bloom again once spring arrives. Fall flowers in bloom are a spectacular way to add extra color to gardens, flowers pots, even fall flower bouquets in a vase

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Why Core Aeration Is So Good For Your Lawn

Core Aeration Is A Key To A Beautiful Lawn Let’s face it. The soil in our area is thick, compacted clay. Not exactly optimal for growing a nice lust lawn. The problem with clay is that it makes it difficult for air, water and nutrients to get to the root system where it is needed. It also holds on tightly to what nutrients are available, and does not release them

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5 Plant Pest Problems For Maryland Gardens

5 Plant Pest Problems That Will Give You Headaches Maryland gardens are faced with many plant pest problems. While it is practically impossible to recognize and know all of them, one can learn the ones that will inflict the most damage. Every plant gets some diseases and has some insects that are going to do damage to it. That is nature. Be that as it may, most plants have that

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600 Strong At Arlington National Cemetery

An Army Of Landscapers Unite To Serve What happens when 600 landscape professionals show up in one place? A lot of work gets done is the answer. This week marked the 23rd annuals National Association of Landscape Professionals Renewal & Remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery and yes, we had over 600 volunteers! Even more amazingly, we have representation from 23 states working together for a very worthwhile purpose. Allentuck Landscaping

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Lightning Safety Guide

Tips For Lightning Safety   Summertime brings time spent at the community pool, backyard cookouts and vacations. It also brings afternoon thunderstorms, which brings lightning. Some of these can be very violent and even cause flash flooding. If you spend time outside, we thought providing these simple lightning safety tips would be a good reminder on how to stay safe during a thunderstorm. Know The Forecast Being aware of potential

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