Brilliant Outdoor Lighting

As the days grow shorter, outdoor lighting that adds not only beauty but a safe path to your door is essential. This is true whether we’re talking about your home or business. The goal of outdoor lighting is for welcoming, safety. And, when the seasons…
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How to Winterize Your Landscaping

Whether you live in the Hudson Valley year round or have a weekend place that gets closed up until spring returns, there are tasks you can accomplish in autumn to ensure your lawn and landscaping gets off to a great start once the warm, sunny weather…
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An Evergreen Winter

In our northern climate, evergreens play such an important role in our home landscapes. As the leaves turn yellow and orange and drop from our deciduous trees, integrating evergreens into our yards help keep the winter from turning quite as bleak. If…
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Shrub and pebble-lined path behind house

Pathways to Landscape Perfection

Every property has pathways, whether planned and created or cut by the continual foot traffic to get from point A to B. Pathways have both practical and aesthetic purposes. They keep your feet dry and provide safe and easy access to your home, garage,…
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Late Summer Landscaping To-Do List

For most enthusiastic homeowners, the month of August signals the downhill slide into colder seasons. While there’s still plenty of time to simply sit back and enjoy the greenery and blooms you’ve put so much hard work into, it’s not a bad time…
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multi-colored flowers and evergreen foundation plants

Foundation Plantings

Simply put, foundation plantings are those closest to your home. They have an important job – they make your home more welcoming, soften your architecture’s hard edges, and ties together your house to the surrounding landscape of your yard. Unfortunately,…
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Best Summertime Plant Watering Tips

Watering the shrubs, trees, and plants in your yard is a judgement call that depends on your yard’s soil, the weather, and the drainage on your property. Getting watering right also depends on observation and experience. So when watering, it’s important…
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Patio Dining Area

Patio Planning – Your Outdoor Living Space

Building a patio will help you take full advantage of the warm weather and beautiful landscape of your yard. Going back centuries in early architecture, a space to enjoy the outdoors was a regular home feature. Called patios in Spanish architecture…
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