Spring is coming.

If you're interested in getting off on the right foot this spring...Call to schedule a Spring Clean-Up assessment.   It's probably the most important visit for the year!  We take everything into consideration to keep your property looking great well into the season including:

 - Cleaning out all beds from fall and winter debris
 - Removing all weeds and spraying all remaining weed growth
 - Applying a healthy amount of Treflan (pre-emergent weed control) to all beds
 - Freshly edging all beds to a neat and professional appearance
 - Applying 14-14-14 all purpose fertilizer to all beds
 - Pruning ornamental grasses and deadwood and cutting back perennials to encourage new growth
 - Hand spreading a triple processed hardwood mulch to a smooth appearance

 

Limelight Hydrangea on Standard

We recently planted one of these for a customer and it is getting ready to bloom.  Its a beautiful way to add some blooms to your yard all summer.  Plus the option to have this beauty on standard can create visual interest for your yard.

Spring is right around the corner!  When you can't wait to get started in the spring garden, a good task to undertake is pruning. Most trees and shrubs benefit from annual pruning. It keeps them in shape, gets rid of dead and diseased wood and encourages new growth. But not all trees and shrubs should be pruned early, especially some of the flowering ones. Early spring bloomers set their flower buds the fall before. Pruning them early in the spring would mean losing some blossoms

Here is a list of trees and shrubs to leave alone this spring to full enjoy their spring blooms.

• Azalea (Rhododendron species) 
• Beautybush (Kolkwitzia amabilis)
• Bridal Wreath Spirea (Spirea x vanhouttei)
• Flowering Crabapple (Malus species and cultivars)
• Forsythia (forsythia x intermedia)
• Hawthorn (Crataegus species and cultivars)
• Hydrangea, Bigleaf (Hydrangea macrophylla)
• Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
• Magnolia (Magnolia species and cultivars)
• Mockorange (Philadelphus coronarius)
• Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
• Rhododendron (Rhododendron species)
• Serviceberry (Amelanchier x grandiflora)
• Slender Deutzia (deutzia gracilis)
• Weigela (Weigela florida)

Fothergilla 'Blue Shadow'

Here is a great little shrub to try out in your shade garden.  What great FALL COLOR!!

100 Year Old Compton Oak Move Successful in League City

You don't have to be in the industry to appreciate this amazing video. 

Hard to believe another Holiday Season has come and gone!  On behalf of the entire team at  Outsiders Landscape Group, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!

 

Each time I see this plant I like it even more.  Caryopteris Hint of Gold is a great late summer bloomer that can brighten any garden.  Lime green/yellow foliage and intense purple flowers play so well together they make you stop to take notice as they draw your eye in.