Landscaping Articles

There is no question when you ask any Tallahassee homeowner if they want their property to look beautiful all year. Without a doubt, they do. However, when they decide on doing the landscaping themselves, and it does not turn out as expected, they hate how it looks and feel they’ve wasted a lot of time and energy, and then turn to us. If you want to avoid landscape frustration, then follow these five Dickerson Landscaping and Lawn Care tips, and you’ll always have an attractive piece of real estate.

What you should know about your soil

When you purchase any plant, the soil it’s transplanted to is crucial to its longevity. The reason for that is some plants will flourish in soil with more acidity, while others will not. Additionally, sandy soils and clay soils will impact individual plants differently and whether or not they will thrive in your landscape’s setting. If there are plants you want in your yard, but the ground is not ideal, then improving the soil is your first step.

The secret to getting a perfect lawn cut every time starts with your mower’s blade. If you always want a great looking lawn, then a sharp, well-balanced lawnmower blade is a must. A dull one, on the other hand, will cut, but it will shred the tips of your turf, and the lawn will look uneven.

After a few days, those ragged ends can turn brown ruining the appearance of your grass, even worse the damaged tips become entry points for disease. So, you’ll want to inspect your blade at least once a year. However, if you are mowing where the conditions are sandy or on rough terrain Dickerson Landscaping and Lawn Care recommend inspecting your blades at least once a month.

Living in Tallahassee, in recent years, we’ve all experienced some extreme weather conditions together. For the past 18 years, you and I have been through 7 tropical storms and 4 hurricanes that impacted Tallahassee and Leon County directly. Not only did the heavy rains and high winds devastate our homes and businesses, but it also wreaked havoc with our yards, gardens, and lawns from the fallen debris left behind.

With only two weeks left before the 2019 Hurricane Season begins, the job of preparing your lawn for the upcoming weather is easy to do. Below, we here at Dickerson Landscaping and Lawn Care have created three simple steps for you to review and implement as you prepare your yard for this upcoming hurricane season.

Providing proper lawn care for your Tallahassee yard doesn’t end with fertilizing, mowing and edging. In fact, in our previous article Did you fertilize your Tallahassee lawn too soon? we touched on the importance of irrigating your yard when you find fertilizer burn patches.

However, in this article, there is more to discover about watering your lawn than merely turning on a hose for a few minutes. Below we’ve provided the answers to the top three irrigation lawn care questions Dickerson Landscaping, and Lawn Care get asked.

A Southern Wood Fern brings classic beauty to any garden. All around Tallahassee and Leon County you’ll find this Florida native in yards, flower beds, front and back porches, along most canopy roads and densely wooded areas.

The Dryopteris ludoviciana (its scientific name; pronounced: dry-OP-tur-iss loo-doe-viss-ee-AY-nuh) patent-leather-like green foliage does have a shiny appearance and can grow up to 4 feet tall and 1-2 feet wide. Other names it’s known by are Southern Shield Fern and Florida Shield Fern.

Colorful flowers always add fullness to a home’s beautiful display, as the gorgeous Blue Agapanthus does. It is especially attractive when this lily of the Nile is seen in your garden bed or along your walkway, amassed in a broad array fully blooming.

If you’ve never seen this perennial before, it has clusters of large, blue, lavender or purple, funnel-like blooms. These flowers sit on long stalks towering over the green leaves in its bundle below. The best time to spot this African Lily in full bloom is during its peak times of the year which is summer and early fall.

It’s springtime in north Florida, and as the new season settles in for the next three months, our temperatures are beginning to rise. However, even though we are starting to see more 80-degree days doesn’t necessarily mean your lawn is ready to get fertilized.  

Every Spring, when our Leon County lawns begin wakening up, we’ll get calls, emails or Facebook questions asking one of our Dickerson lawn care specialists, “How early can I fertilize my lawn?” That’s a great question, and according to William Dickerson, the company owner, and 32-year veteran of lawn care maintenance, he recommends fertilizing by mid-April after the Azaleas and Dogwoods have finished blooming.

With all the rainy, cold weather behind us, it looks like we’re in for another beautiful Leon County season! Spring is right on time, and you know what that means for Tallahassee residents. It’s time to spring into action and get our yards summer-time ready with some good old fashion spring grooming!

Before you pick-up that rake, pull that mower cord or gas up your trimmer, it’s always best to create your “to-do” list first. By checking items off your agenda, as they get completed, the job will go faster and eliminate what needs attention next.

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