Water Your Plants!

With temps in the mid 90s and little rain recently-we are starting to experience a little stress in some of our recently planted landscapes. Many of my clients have had plants installed in the last 6-8 months that are not yet fully established. These plants, regardless of drought tolerance, need to be watered DEEPLY at least once a week.

I have found that folks who get new turf installed will water religiously-this is very understandable since that is a a big investment and a major focal point in the landscape. It is more difficult to impress the need for watering of plants. Once some plants like azaleas or hollies go thru a severe wilt-they may not recover. Don't wait for the plants to tell you they need water.

Finally-this is the time of year when a lot of us are heading to the mountains or the beach for well earned vacations. Make arrangements to have someone water while you are away. My clients can contact me and I will do my best to help them with watering while they are away. Even one week with no water can cause serious damage to newly installed landscapes.

Dunwoody Sod Install

Liriope Transplanting in Smyrna

I did a design for this house earlier in the year. The homeowner is in the process of implementing the plan over time. One thing he wanted to hire me to do was clean out some bed areas and transplant a good bit of Liriope that was already growing on site.

Dunwoody Sod Prep

This is the same Dunwoody project I did a dry creek bed/drainage solution for last month. Installing about 2500' of Emerald Zoysia sod tomorrow..the prep work has consisted mainly of filling and leveling. The old yard had some uncomfortable slopes and a lot of exposed roots. The old turf/weeds were sprayed with herbicide well in advance of the photographed work below. On Monday we brought in 15 yards of red clay fill to cover the roots and help level the yard to more a more usable grade. Today we brought in 8 yards of topsoil (bottom pic) for the final grading.

Oakhurst Completed

Just posting photos for now-when I get a little more time I will add some explantations to go with them!

Oakhurst-Sod Day

Ansley Park-Plants/Steps Photos-

Ashford Park/Dogwood Terrace Completed-Photos

Getting Started on Ashford Park/Dogwood Terrace Project-

This is a project I did a design for. It's a tear down-rebuild house on a corner lot that was just completed late last year. The only existing landscaping to this point was fescue sod and some azaleas planted around the house. We moved the azaleas into one bed today, got soil delivered to create daylily/perennial beds and improve planting areas. Also planted a few of the new foundation plants and a row of 15 gal. "Carolina Sapphire" Cypress-a nice drought tolerant evergreen with a unique blue coloring.