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Landscape Planning

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Landscape Planning

It’s January and although you may be looking at your just plowed driveway (hopefully plowed by A.G. VanGundy Landscape, Inc.) and happy that you didn’t have to shovel off 10 inches or snow or maybe you’re snuggling with that special someone while watching a fire in the fireplace (hopefully purchased from A.G. Landscape Materials, Inc.), it’s not too early to start thinking of the landscaping projects you put off last year or that you may want this upcoming spring.

Perhaps you have been thinking about a patio or an updated look for the front or back yard, or a new lawn or that drainage work that you think about every year. From landscape design to landscape installations, we can help. Contact us at www.agvangundy.com and complete a quote form or call us at (630) 295-8190 and we will take care of the rest. We’ll get back to you within a day or two and schedule a date and time to meet with you to go over your wants/needs for the spring.

Actually, now is a great time to start the process. The closer it gets to spring and warmer weather, the busier all landscape companies get. Landscape Sales Reps schedules are usually more open during the winter months, so you get even more personalized service and attention.

Please keep checking our blogs. Our future blogs will address issues such as Professional Installations vs. Doing It Yourself. We will also write about landscape materials, uses of the different types of materials, purchasing bulk items vs. bagged items, how to properly mulch your planting areas, install topsoil and compost as well as uses of decorative stone, differences in construction grade gavels that we sell and projects such as dog runs, drain tile work, replacing a lawn with sod or grass seed, fertilizing and even lawn maintenance, just to name some of the topics.

If you have something that you would like me to consider, share that with me on a quote form and I may give it a try.

Thank you for reading and hope you check back with us in the future.

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Late Fall Lawn Care

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

We are well into November and after this past October (which was a rain out for the most part) you may have fallen behind on your fall clean up and fall/winterizing fertilizer treatments for your planting beds and lawn.

It is a good practice to remove large accumulation of leaves from your lawn when the lawn is completely covered.  Sometimes, you can grind/mulch the leaves into the lawn with your lawn mower and mulching attachment.  However, often, there is just too much for the mower to handle and the collecting of leaves must be done manually and then the leaves must be hauled away.

Once the leaves and dead material are cleared away, it is a good idea to apply a “timed release” fertilizer to the planting beds and the lawn.  Now is also a great time to install a coating of mulch to your planting beds.  A coating of mulch will help protect your plantings from winter weather and give your plants a better chance of surviving the winter.  The best time to do fall mulching is late fall, once the ground has begun to freeze but before the first snow fall.

I know the fall can be a busy time of year for many of us and in addition to being busy; the weather seems to be pretty volatile.  One week-end the weather is cold and rainy, the next it’s sunny and 60 degrees.  It’s hard to plan a time to get the yard work completed.  That’s why so many people rely on landscape companies to perform their Fall Clean Up.  Companies like A.G. VanGundy Landscape, Inc. can arrange our crews around the weather during the week.  We take care of the disposal of the leaves (you don’t have to worry about leaf bags, stickers and getting the bags to the curb on a certain dates).

In addition to performing your fall clean up, we can also bring you a delivery of firewood.  That way you’ll be all set up for the winter months.  The outside will be cleaned up and ready for the spring weather and the inside can be kept warm and cozy during the cold & dreary months.

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