Gardening Services Guide

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Whatever type of landscape gardening you decide upon for your property, you are going to have to make use of gardening landscape services. Your local gardening landscape services centre is the place where you will find everything you need to construct, plant and maintain your landscaped garden.

The first thing you will ask your gardening landscape services dealer about is your garden’s design. What would be best for the size of your property? Do you want it to be formal or informal; Japanese, English, colonial? Or is your garden going to be a place for kids?

Once you have decided on the design or theme, your gardening landscape services centre will be able to advise you on construction materials. Are you going to need fencing or will you put in a hedge? Are you going to have a pool or a stream? If your property is on a slope will it need terracing? Are there any things on your property that you will want to hide or disguise, like a gardening shed, a hydro pole or a neighbour’s fence? Perhaps you will want to add some special features like new shade trees or some large rocks. Maybe you will want to accessorize with statuary, a bird bath or a sundial. Your gardening landscape services centre will have all of these things, and the staff will be glad to answer any questions you may have. They will even have contacts with professionals who can assist you with constructing your garden if you cannot do it all by yourself.

NOW that the groundwork for your garden has been done, you are ready for the most important step; selecting your plants. Here, again, your gardening landscape services centre can be of great help. The staff there will know what kinds of flowering plants and foliage plants will be the best choices for your garden. They will know what plants complement each other and which ones don’t. If you should choose a plant that does not grow well outdoors in your climate region, the staff at the gardening landscape services centre will advise you.

Once you have selected your plants, the gardening centre’s staff will tell you how to keep your beautiful new garden well maintained. They will have all the products you’ll need for good, nutrient rich soil; pond water that is free of chemicals and excessive algae if your garden has a pool; and plants that are healthy and thriving. The staff will tell you how to protect your garden from diseases and pests, and what steps to take if your plants do become infested or infected. Your gardening landscape services centre will have it all.

The Home Depot gardening section has a wide range of products to fill all of the needs of the home gardening enthusiast. Do you need gardening equipment? At Home Depot gardening machinery includes tillers, cultivators, mowers, chippers and shredders. If you’re looking for hand gardening tools like shears, clippers, shovels, pruners and rakes, they are in the Home Depot gardening section. Home Depot gardening supplies include seed, fertilizers, pest control products and plants. The gardener will also find landscape supplies, watering equipment, storage sheds, greenhouses and even seasonal garden decorations. At Home Depot gardening tips are available to help you get the maximum enjoyment from your garden.

According to the Home Depot gardening tip on planting flowers, the best time to plant is not a warm sunny day, but an overcast day when rain is expected. That first shower will do your new plants good. Plant your annuals and perennials just after of just before the season’s last frost date. In the North, perennials should be planted in the early fall. In the South, they can be planted in late fall.

Choose your new plants carefully. You want short, sturdy plants with just a few flowers and healthy foliage. Don’t buy plants that are spindly, wilted or discoloured. When you knock the plant from its pot, keep as much of the rootball as possible. If the roots are well tangled, it’s a good idea to cut them or pull them apart by hand. This will allow them to spread out into the soil.

It is best to pinch the flowers off a new plant. The plant must put its energy into developing its root system, not flowers. The plant will grow better, healthier flowers later.

Use a spade to prepare the flower bed. Work in at least an inch of organic matter. Every year add sphagnum peat moss, compost, rotted manure or some other organic matter to maintain and improve the soil. An alternative is to top the flower bed each year with a two-inch layer of compost. Loosen the soil to a depth of twelve inches for annuals, and eighteen inches for perennials. Use a ground rake to smooth the soil. When the flower bed is ready, you should plant the flowers at the same soil level they were at in the pot.

Now add one to three inches of aged wood chip mulch, or grass clippings, bark, pine needles, or any other kind of organic mulch. This will conserve moisture, discourage weed growth and prevent many diseases.

There are also Home Depot gardening tips on planting trees, starting a new lawn and pruning a hedge. You will even find buying guides for equipment like valves, hoses, pond pumps and planters. It’s all there for you at Home Depot.