Good Patio Design Increases Your Living Space In this hectic go, go, go world, sometimes we all just need a place to chill out and enjoy ourselves. That is where a good patio design can improve the quality of our life. A patio increases your living space and provides a wonderful area for outdoor entertaining.…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Japanese Stilt Grass Is A Tough Weed To Control What Is Japanese Stilt Grass Japanese Stilt Grass (Microstegium vimineum) has become the bane of many gardener’s existence. It is an aggressive spreader, literally taking over acreage when one turns one’s back. It is so aggressive that it squeezes out other plant and actually can change…
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…
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…
A Fresh Look For This Chevy Chase, MD Backyard Landscape Every now and then a project comes along that simply allows you to be creative and think outside the box. That was the case with this Chevy Chase, MD landscape. We have had the pleasure of working with this particular client for over twenty years…
Plan A Pollinator Garden For Your Home Growing a pollinator garden is one of the best, and most beautiful, ways to create a more sustainable planet. You may not realize if, but pollinators are very important to each of us in our daily lives. Without pollinators, our food supply would simply collapse. Many pollinator populations…
