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Let’s take another visit to the lake home and landscape project by East Coast Landscape.  In the last post we traveled down natural stone steps alongside a well-built and engineered waterfeature. We’re now almost to the shoreline and standing on a wide path covered in woodchips.  This path actually travels a roundabout and gradual climb [...]

The Green Giant’s Growth Habit Perhaps I’ve said it before, but it’s extremely helpful when you know what a plant’s growth habit is before you prune.  Growth habit is basically the shape a plant naturally wants to grow into and how the branching structure supports that shape.  For example: Arborvitae ‘Green Giant’ is pyramidal in [...]

Using Yellow Groove Bamboo over this 270′ border will give us an effective screen in a relatively short time, and at a reasonable cost.  But Yellow Groove happens to be of the “running” type, meaning if not contained its roots (rhizomes actually) will run and invade in all directions. Planting any invasive plant is serious [...]

If this property looks familiar to you it’s because this is Project #8.  Rather than write a “project post” describing a major phase of the job, I wanted to cover a production tip that can improve productivity and the quality of your work. Add A Step; Reduce Time I guess you could call that an [...]