Once you’re raking leaves and watching football, it’s easy to forget about your irrigation system. It’s done for the season, right? It's time to watch the snow pile up.
But your sprinkler system needs some critical attention before freezing temperatures set in.
If your landscaping has stayed the same but you’re on your fourth hairstyle and fifth pair of jeans, you probably have some outdated landscaping.
Take a close look. Any red mulch out there? Overly clipped shrubs? So many ornamental grasses people mistake your place for a garden center?
Landscape design trends change.
So your yard is so huge an airplane could safely land. You could host a pro football game. People mistake it for a sod farm.
Plant the wrong tree too close to your house, and you could be living a scene from a Godzilla movie: your foundation cracked, your house heaving, roots on a rampage!
Is it OK to plant trees near a house? What kind of trees won’t damage your foundation?
Sure, it’s a place to park your car, but a paver driveway is like a work of art — an instant high-end upgrade to your home. The whole place suddenly looks better.
While poured concrete or asphalt are cheaper driveway materials, pavers pack some significant benefits.
