Installing a butterfly garden is a quick way to add color, life, and beauty to your property. To do this, choose plants that are essential for these beautiful creatures in different stages of life. Read on to learn what plants to include in your butterfly garden, and one to avoid! What is a Host Plant? A host plant is a …
Learn How to Save Money on Your Spring Cleanup
As a design/build landscape firm, we began offering spring cleanups and garden maintenance because our clients were frustrated with mowing companies pulling out their perennials. As self-identified plant geeks, we knew we could provide this service while leaving the mowing to lawn specialists. And, as we applied ecological techniques to spring cleanups over the years, we learned that these techniques …
GreenWeaver Partners With 1% for the Planet
GreenWeaver has joined 1% for the Planet, pledging to donate 1% of sales to nonprofit organizations focused on the environment. GreenWeaver Landscapes is an ecological design, build, and land stewardship firm in Media, Pennsylvania. “At GreenWeaver, Environmental Stewardship is at the very core of who we are. We are excited to join the 1% network of members to be a …
Invite Birds Home With a Beautiful Winter Landscape
Bring beauty, movement and color to your yard this winter and invite birds with an attractive landscape! Like all creatures, birds need shelter, water, and food to survive. Provide these things for our feathered friends to attract birds to your property. Create Shelter Of the three elements necessary for our birds, providing shelter is probably the easiest. While bird houses may be …
Winter: The Best Time to Tackle Invasive Plants
Some gardening projects, like removing invasive plants are easier to do in the winter. Winter is a great time to tackle invasive plants because leaves have fallen making access to certain “wild” areas easier and making the plants themselves easier to handle. Thorny, invasive plants are also much easier to deal with when wearing long sleeves or a jacket. Invasive …
Fall Leaves: Love Them and Leave Them!
If you are one of the many people that thinks the fall leaves are beautiful, but hate raking or blowing them to the curb, we have some advice for you…leave them! Fallen leaves are nature’s mulch and adding them to your garden bed provides many benefits. So, Leave the Leaves! Benefits of Leaves Many insects overwinter in the fallen leaves, …
How to Solve Drainage and Erosion Problems
With larger and more frequent storms, it is important to understand how to manage drainage and erosion on your property. Read on to learn the do’s and don’ts of managing stormwater! Drainage Drainage is the act of removing water from a site. If done too quickly, drainage causes erosion. If done too slowly, yards and basements are soggy and wet. …
Important Watering Tips from Landscape Pros
Of all the watering tips we offer as landscape professionals, the most important one is to follow the adage, ‘Right plant, right place”. Appropriate design and plant selection ensures your garden beds will be lush and full during most of the year, regardless of the weather. There is a time however, when even well designed gardens need supplemental watering. That …
Avoid These Costly Landscape Mistakes
Whether you take care of your own property, or you have someone maintain it for you, landscape mistakes are costly. Learn to avoid these common landscape mistakes and save yourself time, money, and frustration! Skipping the Plan Before you start a big landscape project or sink money into expensive plants, start with a plan. If you are knowledgeable about design, …
12 Gardening Tips for June
Perform the Chelsea Chop by cutting back certain perennials by 1/3′. If done in early June, your plants will have a later or longer bloom time and a bushier habit. Try this with asters, Black-eyed Susans, or experiment with others. Help control Spotted Lanternfly! Our gardeners have been finding Spotted Lanternfly in the nymph stage on several properties. Penn State Extension has information about control and identification here. Prune flowering shrubs …