Category Archives: Landscape

Creating a Landscaping Budget

Before you visit your local nursery and garden store for landscaping materials in San Jose, you need to create a landscaping budget. Your landscaping budget should include the cost of flowers, plants, trees, seeds, garden supplies, rockery, garden pavers, mulch, soil, compost, and hardscape materials. Deciding on a firm budget will make it much easier[…]

Getting Your Landscaping Ready for Autumn

It’s officially the fall—is your San Jose lawn ready? Although spring and summer are generally considered the best times for landscaping and lawn maintenance, this is in fact the prime time to prepare your yard for the next growing season. Cooler temperatures and moist soil combine to slow aboveground growth and encourage strong root development,[…]

How to Mulch Your Lawn

If your lawn is the pride of your property’s outdoor space, you want to do what you can to keep it healthy and looking spectacular. A quick jaunt down to a San Jose nursery and gardening center should provide you with the necessary tools, fertilizers, and materials to help you manage your lawn. One of[…]

A Look at Some Drought-Tolerant Plants

Many Californian landscapes and gardens that were once lush and verdant have been suffering lately, due to the prolonged period of drought currently plaguing The Golden State. With strict water restrictions implemented statewide, gardeners are realizing that water wise gardening and xeriscaping is the way to go. However, your garden need not look like a[…]

Choosing Lawn and Garden Equipment

Gardening in San Jose is often a truly rewarding and enjoyable experience, especially when you have the right equipment on hand. Whether you are caring for your lawn, transplanting trees and shrubs, pruning, or creating a hardscape, you need tools and devices to stand up to rigorous and repeated use, and to have them last[…]

What Are The Most Common Landscaping Tools?

Your home’s landscaping is among its most important exterior features. Whether you are an avid gardener, or are just getting started on a gardening project, it is important that you have all of the tools you need to get the job done right. Your local garden center will have a terrific selection of landscaping supplies[…]