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A Guide to Annuals and Perennials

A Guide to Annuals and Perennials

Successful garden planning requires careful planning and dedication. You need to know which plants grow best in your climate, when they bloom and the difference between those that only live a single season (annuals), versus those that continue to grow and bloom year after year (perennials). As you while away the winter months, this guide…

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Autumn Transition – What to Do for Your Colorado Landscape

Autumn Transition – What to Do for Your Colorado Landscape

Every year, it still amazes us. After a sparkling winter, a gorgeous spring and a bountiful summer, it’s hard to think life can get any better in Colorado… until fall arrives. The season of warm colors and cool temperatures is upon us, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to tuck your landscape in for hibernation….

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Tips for Maintaining a Landscape

Tips for Maintaining a Landscape

Once your trees, shrubs and flowering plants are in place, a healthy landscape requires a certain level of attention to truly flourish. By making Denver landscape maintenance a part of your weekly, monthly and seasonal routine, your yard will look amazing all year long. Plus, you’ll be spared the heartache of sick and dying plants,…

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Why Grow Native Shrubs?

Why Grow Native Shrubs?

Growing native plants in your Colorado garden not only adds color to your landscape design, but also benefits and contributes to the biodiversity of our beautiful state. While landscaping with a native shrub seems like a small way to aid the environment, other projects that do not include these wonderful plants can harm biodiversity. Shrubs…

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Landscape Design Solutions for Colorado: Terraces

Landscape Design Solutions for Colorado: Terraces

The natural landscape of Colorado can prove to be a challenge when developing a landscape design. The slopes of various degrees and gentle hills call for meticulous planning in order to create a design that wows. But rather than grade the slopes and hills down, we’re often able to use these to our advantage by…

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Don’t Forget the Trees!

Don’t Forget the Trees!

It is very possible to achieve a gorgeous landscape that will retain its beauty even during drought conditions. But it’s easy to get caught up in the appearance of flowers, grass, shrubs, and other plants during dry conditions that we forget an equally important part of the equation… trees. Trees offer a number of benefits…

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Enhance Your Outdoor Living Spaces with Landscape Lighting

Enhance Your Outdoor Living Spaces with Landscape Lighting

The outdoor entertaining season is right around the corner. Soon we will be able to enjoy beautiful evenings at home with friends and family dining and lingering outdoors long after the sun goes down. With that in mind, now’s the perfect time to take a look at your outdoor living spaces. Could they use a…

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Water Smart Landscaping Strategies

Water Smart Landscaping Strategies

Due to the worsening drought conditions in the Denver area, water conservation has been the hot topic. But in addition to being water conscious, there are other ways to create a more drought-tolerant landscape. Landscapes can actually be strategically designed to withstand extra-dry conditions. The benefits of strategically designed landscapes go far beyond saving water, too….

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Early Spring Maintenance Tips for Denver Landscapes

Early Spring Maintenance Tips for Denver Landscapes

With a new season upon us, we know many of you are looking to make a few updates to refresh your landscapes and garden areas. But before you can start sprucing up for spring, there is a little bit of “housekeeping” that must be taken care of. The Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado recently shared…

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It’s Time to Schedule Spring Irrigation Turn-Ons

It’s Time to Schedule Spring Irrigation Turn-Ons

As spring approaches, it’s time to start planning for your spring irrigation turn-on. We usually start scheduling turn-ons to begin at the end of March and wrap them up toward the end of April, so now’s the time to call Lifescape to schedule a time for one of our professionals to come turn your irrigation…

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