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Best Ways to Cut Down Living Green Wall Maintenance

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Let’s have a look at the new topic in the landscaping “green walls,” also named as vertical gardens, living walls or eco walls. In recent years, green wall landscape has gained a lot of popularity among people. With green walls, you can reduce your energy bills, protect the environment, and absorb sound. Plus, being in urban centers, you can feel closer to nature. To keep these green walls healthy for years, you need to maintain them regularly.  If you’re interested to install green walls, but don’t want to spend too much time cleaning and maintaining them, the following are the top ways you can minimize living green wall maintenance while keeping the walls look healthy and green for longer. Choose the right plants - While designing your green wall, you must choose the plants. You also need to discuss your requirements, budget, and your building with your green wall landscape provider. To choose the right plants, things such as the location of your property, the amount of l...

Things to Consider When Choosing Landscape Contractors in NYC

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An attractive lawn in your front and backyard can significantly transform the look of your house. However, front yard landscaping is a crucial part of any landscaping project because it is not only viewable to you, but also to the public. The benefits of quality landscaping are many, but you need to make sure that it is visible in your landscape. To do so, you must choose the ideal landscaping company in NYC .  With a huge selection of landscape dealers in New York, choosing the right contractors is tough. Although several landscape contractors are available in NYC, a buyer needs to be aware while making a purchase. All contractors are not the same.  Spend some time on researching the available landscaper options and compare them. There are several contractors that offer great services at extremely low prices. Make sure you hire a company with experience in various services. Also, go through their website, review site, and social media profile.  If yo...

4 Top Trends for Commercial Landscape in New York

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Recently landscape has been gaining trend in the commercial world. More and more companies are opting to add green belts and areas on their property. The current trends for commercial landscape in New York call for the walkways, sidewalks, bicycle paths, fragrant flowers, green walls in the office space.  The trends for the landscape in New York is based on the outdoor living. The spaces need to be functional as well as beautiful. The garden space in the commercial needs to be the place where the employees can relax during their free hours. The commercial property owners are hiring the leading designers in the state to freshen up the spaces and create a unique landscape to make their mark. Experiential Design The leading trend in the landscape design is the experimental design. This trend aims to please the all the senses - sight, smell, touch, sound, and even taste. Adding the experimental landscape will change the way your property looks. This landscape has: ...

Tips on Your Dog and Landscape Play Nicely Together

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Do you know that the major culprit behind your dying grass is your dog? The brown spots on your garden look awful especially when it is dog poop. Whether it is your dog or your neighbor's, what is necessary for you to understand is those dog feces is extremely harmful to the lawn. While some people believe that feces can be an organic fertilizer, the expert landscape designers in New York City all agree that it does more harm than good. We all love pets, but sometimes you have to make choices so that you can keep your pets while having a fabulous garden. Here is how dog feces can harm your lawn and reason why should you keep your pets out of your lawn. Why should you keep your pets out of your lawn? High protein Unlike the actual manure i.e. cow dung, the dog feces has a high quantity of protein. The high quantity of protein creates an acidic excrement that is extremely harmful to your plants and grass. The acidic content will burn your grass and leave huge brown...

5 leading gardening trends of 2018

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The new generation loves to experiment. Living in the small spaces means that their garden also needs to fit in the small space. Roof terraces and vertical garden designs are the top trends of the year. They are the technical as well as the aesthetic solution of creating the green area in small spaces. Along with this huge planter and hanging gardens are in totally in fad. If you have a green thumb and are looking for inspiration, here are a few trends to help you out: Vertical gardens With the housing crisis, it is difficult to get a place to live, let alone a garden. Thus, it is necessary that our plants take less space. The vertical garden design is captivating and is a great way to create gardens in a small living space. The plants that are generally used are hanging shrubs or plants on a vertical wall.  Vegan garden Majority of gen Y is opting for veganism. The number of vegans in the country is on the rise. If you are a vegan or thinking of becoming one, y...

5 Tips For Spring Clean Up On Your Property

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With seasons changing, it is time for the yearly spring cleanup. Whether it is a r esidential or commercial landscaping, it is extremely necessary that you do the required spring cleanup. Spring cleanup is less about planting variety of garden and more about enhanced curb appeal. Here are a few tips for spring clean up on your property: Pruning  Springtime is all about pruning the trees and cutting back the perennial trees, perennial grasses, roses and plants such as spirea (as the plants grow on new wood). The aim of pruning is to get the air flowing and obtaining proper sunlight for the plants. The perennial trees require a structural pruning to make sure that the sun and air get to the flowering trees.  Edging The activity of edging makes the plant's beds neat and tidy. Any leaf litter and landscaping debris are cleared. This will also decrease any chances of increase in bacteria, diseases or eggs from insects. The recommended cut is a 90-degree 2.5 inch ...