If there are some nasty, scraggly trees in your lawn that you want to get rid of, Don King Landscaping can take them out quickly.  We can trim back a few branches that don’t look very healthy, or cut the whole tree down to the stump.  If you’re lucky, you’ll even get Don King himself to do it:

Now that you’ve had the sprinklers running for a while, have you noticed any issues with your drainage?  For example, there is an excess of water spilling out from your garden or lawn onto the sidewalk or, even worse, into your house.  Don King Landscaping can establish positive drainage in your yard which will eliminate all these problems and get your yard growing like it should.

If you love the beautiful flowers of Crab apple and Cherry trees, but don’t want to deal with all the fruit that falls and makes a mess on your yard there is another option for you.  You can get fruitless trees that still flower.  This means that you can enjoy the beauty of the trees without the mess.  (However, if you are craving a homemade cherry cobbler right now though, a cherry tree that does produce fruit in your front yard would be overflowing with cherries for you to pick!)

If you want to keep your plants healthy throughout the summer without using chemicals for fertilizers, composting is a great option.  Keep a container in your kitchen for your food scraps and put them in a tumbler, a homemade crate or just a big pile where your compost can do its magic.  Try to add big amounts at a time, instead of just throwing an apple core, or a banana peal one at a time on it.  If you’d like to get more material than just the food scraps from your kitchen, consider going to a local coffee shop and asking for their grounds to add to your pile.

After your flowers have bloomed and then shriveled up, it is important to keep the plant healthy and looking good by dead heading them.  This is just simply plucking or cutting off the end of the stem where the flower was.  This helps the plant to grow back fuller and to keep it looking healthy.

Here at Don King Landscaping, we are very proud of the stonework that our masons do (see previous Tips of the Day).  If you’re thinking about stonework, but want more than just a patio, a stone sitting wall is a great option.  Here are two separate sitting wall projects we just finished.  They can be done in different material than the patio, as you can see in the pictures, to add interest.  The first one has a lot more color and texture in the stone than the ground, while the second one is four inch dry stacked in mortar.  They both add interest to the patio while providing the perfect place to sit and enjoy it.