Temperatures are dropping tonight and with the recent lower temperatures you may want to protect some of your more tender plants from the cold temperatures. Here are some suggested materials for you to use and consider to give your plants a little protection during the next few nights.
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Best Vines for Dallas, Texas
Using vines in your garden and landscape design can add an extra layer of color and depth along with stretching your dollars in the plantings. Vines are used by Landscape Architects, gardeners and homeowners for a variety of purposes from providing colorful blooms covering and unattractive wall, climbing a trellis and establishing an effective screening or backdrop. Here is a list of our favorite vines for the Dallas-Fort Worth area gardens.
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What's Wrong with the Italian Cypress Trees Around Dallas?
What is going on with the Italian Cypress trees around Dallas? A question we have been asking ourselves and hearing from homeowners all over Dallas & Ft. Worth in the last year. You can see it almost anytime you venture out around Dallas. Beautiful, mature Italian Cypress trees that have been used to accent and enhance landscapes and architecture across the metroplex are turning brown, their foliage is thinning and they are looking terrible. What is the problem?
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Lorapetalum - Love It or Leave It?
Loropetalum (Loropetalum chinese) or Fringe Flower, as it is commonly known, is a popular shrub used throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It's popularity stems from its rich maroon leaf color and its especially noticeable in early spring with its bright pink or fuschia flowers. So how them could we not completely love it? Well, here is a little insight into the title of the post and why we are somewhat conflicted about using using it in our planting designs and how much we see it around Dallas.
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2016 Holiday Gift Guide for the Gardener
Our annual Holiday Gift Guide has arrived just in time for Cyber Monday. We've asked our staff to assemble a list of their favorite gardening gift ideas including a few things that are on their own lists. Take a look at these and get a jump start on finishing up your shopping a little early. Enjoy.
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