Tag: garden

Great New Resource For Your Garden

RightPlantz For A Better Garden At Allentuck Landscaping Co., we are passionate about landscaping and gardening so when we find another company that is equally as passionate, we want to share it. RightPlantz.com is a web based platform with a mission to grow better gardeners. RightPlantz.com has something for all gardeners whether they are green and new to gardening, or are experienced and have giant green thumbs. The Find Plantz

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23 Really Interesting Deer Resistant Plants

Deer can cause significant damage to landscape plants, as they have a wide range of dietary preferences and will often feed on a variety of shrubs, flowers, and trees. Their browsing habits can result in the stripping of leaves, twigs, and bark, which can weaken or kill the plant. Additionally, repeated browsing can cause a plant to become stunted or misshapen. Homeowners often use physical barriers like fencing to protect

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7 Hot Trends For Montgomery County, MD Gardens in 2018

Really Exciting Trends For Montgomery County, MD Gardens If you are like most gardeners (and if you are reading this we guess that you are), mid-winter makes one yearn for spring and the opportunity to get back into your garden. In this blog post we dive into what we think will be the hottest garden trends for Montgomery County, MD gardens in 2018. Back To Nature – Using native plants has

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How And When To Plant Spring Bulbs

Spring Bulbs Add Brilliant Color To Any Garden Nothing quite says spring tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus and alliums blooming in all their glory. Because they are planted in the fall but do not bloom until spring, bulbs provide delayed gratification for gardeners who cultivate them. The array of colors covers just about every color in the rainbow. When To Plant Spring Bulbs It is best to wait for the temperatures

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Annuals for Brilliant Fall Color

Many Plants To Choose From For Fall Color By now your summer annuals are probably not looking so great. The heat and summer drought have taken their toll. Fear not, there are plenty of annuals for brilliant fall color. Pansies, chrysanthemums and ornamental kale and cabbage offer easy and very colorful options for your garden. Pansies Pansies love the cool fall weather and will continue to push out blooms until

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Allentuck Landscaping Co. Visits Dufief Elementary School

Allentuck Landscaping Co. Installs 2017 Gardens For Grade Schools Grants It was a hot day, but also a wonderful day as we installed this year’s Gardens for Grade School Grants at Dufief Elementary School in North Potomac, Maryland. Earlier in the day, our landscape crew installed an 8’x4’ cedar planter with perennials that attract butterflies; Coreopsis, Sedum, Echinacea and several other species. After the installation was complete, over 80 second

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8 Best Garden Plants For Attracting Butterflies

Plant These Plants For Attracting Butterflies To Your Garden Butterflies are a delight to have in one’s garden. Attracting butterflies to your garden is easy. It is important to plant the one thing they cannot resist, flowers. Flowers and butterflies go hand in hand. As a poet once pointed out, butterflies are flying flowers, and flowers are tethered butterflies. Here are 8 of the best plants for attracting butterflies to

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8 Deer Resistant Perennials

Try These Deer Resistant Perennials In Your Garden If you are reading this you already know that damage to landscape plants in Montgomery County, Maryland by White Tail Deer has increased dramatically over the last few years. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage to gardens has occurred. The problem has become worse because of a rising deer populations, encroachment of human’s into the deer’s natural territory and the

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How To Improve Your Front Landscape In North Potomac, MD

It Is Not Difficult To Make Your Front Landscape In North Potomac, MD Look Awesome! You only get one chance to make a first impression and first impressions are everything. How our homes look can affect how we feel about it every time we come and go, how guests feel when they arrive, and ultimately, how successful a home sale can be when we ultimately decide to move. Here are

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Solutions For Planting Under Trees

Planting Under Trees Can Be Challenging It is a common complaint, “Nothing will grow under my trees”. To be perfectly honest, our first response to this statement is usually not what our customers want to hear: “Duh”. Mature trees have large canopies that block out the sun and massive root systems that will out compete smaller plants for water every day. So the area under the trees becomes brown and

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