Tag: Landscape Contractor

6 Perfect Plants For Spectacular Spring Color

It is not too early to plant some annuals! It has been a long hard winter and we are all itching to get some color into our gardens. Before you run out to the nursery and load up on annuals, but beware, there is still a danger of frost and cold nights in our area which could kill some of the annuals nurseries are showing. Remember, it is the nursery’s

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How To Design The Perfect Front Foundation Garden

Creating The Perfect Front Foundation Garden Is Easy If You Follow These Steps Let’s face it, a house without a foundation garden simply looks naked, sort of like a picture without a frame.  The right plants in front of a house not only hide the foundation, but if planned properly, enhance the beauty and value of a home dramatically. But where to start? A Layered Approach This may seem like

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Montgomery County Greenfest | March 28, 2015

Greenfest to celebrate the Environment of Montgomery County Saturday, March 28th at 11am Silver Spring, MD – Montgomery College, Takoma Park/Silver Spring, and Jesup Blair Local Park Learn and Explore! Join your neighbors in celebrating the environment of Montgomery County This is a free event with something for everyone: Schedule of Events Rain or shine Food is available for sale Find out more here: Greenfest   Phone: 3015-515-1900   Email: info@allentucklandscaping.com Allentuck Landscaping

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Family Fun Event In Clarksburg, MD | Saturday, March 28, 2015

7th Annual Kites Over Clarksburg The 7th Annual Kites over Clarksburg will be held Saturday, March 28th, 11 am to 2 pm at Oven Hazen Wells Park (12001 Skylark Drive). Crafts, games, activities and a raffle Bring canned food, eye glasses and/or hearing aids for donations to local food banks and the Lions Club of Clarksburg Local companies will be exhibiting Children can make kites from recycled materials More information

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5 Ways To Improve The Care Of Your Landscape

Caring For Your Landscape Just Got Easier If you are like most people, you work hard all week, shuffle the kids to all of their activities, cook, clean …. The weekend comes and all you really want to do is kick up your feet and enjoy some down time. The last thing you probably want to do is mow the lawn, pull the weeds, prune the shrubs…The alternative? Hire a

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Baby It’s Cold Out There

How Will The Cold Temperatures Affect My Landscape? With record breaking low temperatures (9 degrees this morning!), one would wonder if these conditions are bad for our landscape? Will these temperature harm or kill our plants? Plants Can Fend For Themselves Plants are well suited to deal with cold temperatures. Trees and shrubs go dormant. Perennials die back to the ground. However, there is some damage that can occur to

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Backyard Patio Design – Beyond The Basics

Good backyard patio design can make an ordinary patio and extraordinary patio. Put this image in your head for a moment – it is a beautiful summer evening, the sun is just beginning to set, close friends have arrived for a dinner and drinks, the kids are playing over in the yard and the adults are enjoying a glass of wine on your flagstone patio as a fire crackles in

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Resolutions For our Garden

Resolutions For Our Garden As 2014 melts into 2015, I am overwhelmed by just how fortunate we are at Allentuck Landscaping Co. It has been a crazy year with so many good things (and a few bumps along the way).  I thought I would share a few garden (and life) resolutions with you. First a disclaimer: Although these are garden resolutions for our company, they are also somewhat my personal

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Seeing The Landscape In Winter

Winter may seem like the perfect time to take a vacation from your garden but, if used wisely, it can be an important time to lay down the ground work for making vast improvements. Just as plants are dormant and preparing to burst forth in the spring, so can us gardeners. A Time To Think About The Landscape During the warmer seasons we are busy with the day to day

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Allentuck Landscaping Co. Goes Back To School in Germantown, Maryland

Allentuck Landscaping Gives Back To Community Continuing our tradition of working with non-profit and community based organizations, Jose Castillo and Celbin Pineda paid a visit to Lake Seneca Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland last month. Although we were only there to do a little winter garden preparation, we are happy to do what we can to help. We will be returning to the school in the spring to till the

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