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Right now is a great time to plan your Spring landscape project

Right now is the a great time to plan your spring landscape project

March is the perfect time to get ahead of the crowd and begin planning for any upcoming landscape and maintenance projects. Take advantage of the fact that landscape professionals are in the slow season until April and have ample time to assist you with design and budget. This will allow you to make good decisions and get your projects scheduled and completed in time for Spring graduation parties, Summer weddings, or entertaining in Northern Colorado - Front Range!

Winter Watering: Why is it important?

Why is it important? Because Colorado is dry twelve months a year...

Regardless of what Puxatawny Phil reported on February 2nd of this year; Northern Colorado is enjoying winter. A very dry winter, but a winter nonetheless...

Most people realize the need to water during the growing season. However, many may not be aware of the need to water during the winter months.

Outdoor Living for Your Home

Bring vacation to your backyard this summer with a customized outdoor living space to fit your every need. Whether it be a patio for your grill or a complete outdoor kitchen and bar, increase the square footage of your home with the addition of an outdoor room. These spaces not only grow the value of your home, but also provide a venue for priceless conversation, a shared laugh, and solitary moment with a glass of your favorite merlot.

4 Main Types of Water Features

Contemporary water feature, formal water feature, minimal water feature, or natural water feature? There are water features for all styles of gardens. Below are 4 popular styles:

Water Features - Add more than meets the eye!

Adding a water feature to your landscape is visually appealing, but can also add many other benefits you may not realize.

Sound: You may have the visual stimulation from your green grass and aroma from your flowers, but a water feature will be one of the most soothing and calming effects for your senses that you can add to your backyard oasis!
"Sound not only affects our state of mind, but can be actually used to improve our health. It is well known that sound therapy can dramatically change one's health," - according to health-benefit-of-water.com

Tips for Planting Annuals

Colorado has an abundant selection of flowering perennials that bloom throughout the summer. Those that have a limited color window can be enticed into continual blooms through dead heading. However, there are many annuals that provide immaculate color through the duration of the growing season.

Landscape Design for Fort Collins, Greeley, & Windsor (Northern Colorado)

Now is the time to plan...

We listen and you decide whether you want a whimsical perennial garden, a formal garden, or a low maintenance, sustainable outdoor space that is in balance with the local Fort Collins and throughout Northern Colorado climate and requires minimal resource inputs in terms of fertilizer, pesticides and water. Southern Exposure will create a unique and beautiful space that you’ll enjoy for years to come.

Just ask some of our clients:

Spring Maintenance - Clean-Ups

As the temperature starts to creep up it is a good time to take advantage and give your property a spring clean up. Proper landscape maintenance or a spring clean up is really important so your yard and plants get off to a healthy start for the rest of the season. Spring clean ups include many services such as: pruning shrubs and trees, leaf and debris clean up, cutting back perennials and ornamental grasses, aeration and power raking the turf, flipping or top dressing the mulch beds, and short mowing the turf.

February is the time to cut back ornamental grasses

February and early March is the right time to cut back perennials, ornamental grasses and vines that have been left for winter interest. It is also the time to spray dormant oils to smother insect eggs and scale on woody plants. In addition, it’s perfect to prune trees and shrubs while it’s easy to see the branching structure.

Southern Exposure Landscape Tip: If you have many ornamental grasses to cut back use duct tape or string and wrap the grass approximately 10 inches above the grade. Cut below the tape line with a gas or electric hedger. Now you have a nice bundle for easy clean-up and disposal.

Don't Forget Us in the Winter...

Even when the weather turns cozy on the Front Range, Southern Exposure can continue to lighten up the front of your establishment. Whether it be the entrance to your home or business, our design team can welcome you and your guests with festive outdoor entry arrangements.

By using seasonal foliage such as berries, evergreens, pinecones, and colored stems, we will be able to transform your summer plantings into a winter beauty. Don’t let your favorite pots sit empty, let us fill them with seasonal joy.