Time is a valuable commodity these days. Most homeowners are looking for ways to reduce the amount of time and effort they have to spend maintaining their landscape beds. Fortunately, there are several ways to accomplish this goal. Choose Low-Maintenance Plants One of the most effective ways to reduce maintenance in your landscape beds is…
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How Does Our Vegetable Garden Grow? One of our long-standing traditions at Allentuck Landscaping Co. is to grow a company vegetable garden. Our garden is designed to provide good, healthy food to our staff and their families. This year, due to our move to Rockville, we had to start our garden from scratch again. This…
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…
Easy Tips For Keeping Your Home Landscape Maintenance On Schedule For all of you do-it-yourselfers, out hats are off to you. Keeping up with all of the tasks involved in home landscape maintenance is a big undertaking. But, if that is what you are committed to, we offer the following tips to help make it…
Tips For Creating The Perfect Front Foundation Garden Consider this. The front foundation garden is the dressing on your home. It is the first thing people notice about our home, and probably the first thing you notice when you come home. It can be boring, or, with a little thought and planning, it can make…
Tips To Get Your Garden Ready For Spring Spring is just around the corner, we think. If you are ready to get outside and get your hands dirty, these tips are for you. Seven tips to help you get your garden ready for spring. Order Seeds The seed company catalogs have probably already arrived so…
Improve Your World With These Garden Resolutions We can all do a little more to improve the world. Why not start in your own garden with these very easy garden resolutions. Every little bit helps! Start Composting Composting is easy, reduces waste, and gives you back great soil to put back in the garden. Why…
Landscape Trees For Small Spaces Add Interest And Character Small spaces can provide unique challenges when choosing plants, but these landscape trees for small spaces can add texture, color, unique forms and lots of interest. Each of these trees has something special to offer any landscape. Cornus Kousa – Kousa Dogwood Of all the dogwood…
Keep The Color Coming With Fall Annuals Just because fall has arrived does not mean the garden cannot have lots of color. In our climate, many fall annuals will bloom well into the approaching winter. Some, like pansies, will even bloom again once spring arrives. Consider these fall annuals as a way to brighten your…
Coneflowers Offer Fantastic Late Summer Garden Color Late summer can be a frustrating time in the garden. Some of our favorite plants are fading and the fall plants are just not quite in prime time yet. This is where Coneflowers come in. With a wide variety of color and size options, Coneflowers offer blooms that…
