Well, I’m about ready to get out my hip boots. This has got to be the rainiest season I think I’ve seen in my 41 years in this business. It’s amazing how green everything is for August. That, and the fact that we’ve just come out of a 5 day heat wave. Normally everything would be brown about now, and we’d be reminding all of our clients to water their lawns and shrubs.

With the economy being in the state it’s in, you’d think that we would be slow with work. Au contraire, friends. This may be one of our busiest seasons on record. We’ve managed to get our weekly lawn cuttings done on schedule, (more or less), and get through most of our accumulated list of landscaping work. The rains have helped us by watering plantings that some clients tend to forget, and with some lost rain days, kept us working during normally seasonally slow times. I suppose that the economic forecasters are correct when they say that the economy is starting to turn around. We anticipate a continued trend in clients spending their money closer to home, and investing in the appearance of their properties.

Speaking of appearances, if your home is 30+ years old, then so is your landscaping. If there have been times when you may have put off some basic maintenance of your landscaping, then chances are that you have also taken years off the possible useful life of your plants. Useful life? Yes, as with most things, even landscape plants have a useful life. Over time, they become overgrown or unsightly, and eventually need to be replaced. Simply cutting them back won’t always work.

Is your landscape looking a bit sad? Plants overgrown, bare in spots, brown, or just plain ugly?
Consider a landscape renovation. Call us for a consultation. You may be pleasantly surprised with what we have to say. September and October are GREAT times for planting.

As I said before, we’ve been busy, so the sooner you call, the faster we can schedule you.

Enjoy what’s left of y0ur Summer!!