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Strengthen Your Community with a Healthy Lawn and Landscape
The quality of a neighborhood depends largely on curb appeal, which is how attractive the area looks at the first glance of a visitor or potential home buyer. Curb appeal includes many elements,...
Drought Tolerant Plants, Grass and Trees for Your Texas Yard
Drought Tolerant Plants in Texas Choosing the appropriate drought tolerant plants for your Texas landscape is the key to ensure amazing growth, healthy plants, and a flourishing yard....
How to Hang Christmas Lights Outside
Hanging your Christmas lights can be challenging to do if you’ve never done it before. Believe it or not, the majority of homeowners spend nearly 12 hours every year preparing,...
How to Landscape Around a Tree
Sometimes trees can go forgotten in your landscape design. However, trees without landscaping around them can look bare or unkempt and are hard to mow around; while old or weakened trees can pose ...
Identifying Soil Issues for a Healthy Turf
Over time Purple Care and our partners have pulled soil samples from many of your lawns to make sure the turf is healthy and to identify any potential issues. Unfortunately, if you live in North...
Nutrition For Plants: Why Do Plants Need Nutrients to Grow?
Plants need nutrients for the same reasons that animals need them. They need them to germinate, grow, fight off diseases and pests and to reproduce. Like animals, nutrients are needed in...
6 Benefits of Landscape Design
A well-landscaped, attractive yard has many benefits. Not only does it look great, it also adds value to your property, enhances curb appeal, and supports routine lawn care and maintenance, among ...
Effect of Landscape Plants on Perceived Home Value
Attractive well-crafted landscaping can have a tremendous impact on the current and future market value of a home. Terraced levels, bordered gardens and flowerbeds and a few carefully selected plants ...
LED vs. Incandescent Christmas Lights
Recently I had a client ask me why LED Christmas lights are better than Incandescent, considering the initial cost is more. It is true the upfront cost is more for LED. I sent him an email with...