Do I need year around landscape maintenance in Atlanta?

Do you need to maintain your landscape year round? In Atlanta, Year around maintenance is very common and needed to keep a healthy landscape. While the frequency may change from weekly to a couple of times a month from November to March, there is imperative work that needs to occur to be ready for Spring. Here are a few maintenance activities that occur during these months:

Leaf Removal

Cutting back Liropie, perrennials, and oranmental grasses

Hard pruning of shrubs

Limbing of Trees

Pruning of Craepe Mrytles and Butterfly Bush

Prunning of Roses

Scalping of Bermuda and Zyosia

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There are also several lawn care and pest control treatments to prepare for Spring:

Application of Simazine in Nov or Dec for Poa Annua control in early sping

Application of Dormant Oil on Shrubs to reduce insect populations in Spring

Application of Pre-Emergent in Late Feb/Early March

Fertilization of Trees and Shrubs

Application of Winter Fertilization in October for root development

Fertilization and overseeding of Fescue

Grub Treatment

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Not maintaining your landscape in the winter will increase Spring problems and require a Spring clean up. This spring clean up is most like to cost more than continuing the maintenance through the winter. Also it will be defficult to get the landscape to look and perform as it should.

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Creech Landscape Jan 2012 Atlanta

Creech Landsape would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.  We had a warm fall and December in Atlanta, which has accelerated the germination of poa annua.  In January, you can start pruning your crape myrtles. We usually wait until after Christmas as customers may have put up Chistmas Lights. Also, you want a hard freeze so that the sap have been ran out of the branches. Large crape myrtles you should not prune, especially the Natchez. I recommend removing cross branches and cleaning up the tip. You can also cut back oranmental grasses and liropie. The easiest way to cut back the oranmental grasses is to use a string or rope, and tie up the blades. Then cut about 12 to 18 inches above the ground. For larger liropie beds use a push mower or trimmer. Spraying Simazine now will give an additional pre-emergent barrier for poa annua, as well as, kill any recently germinated poa annua. For visible poa annua, you can spray Transit-X and when temperautre are into the 70's you can spray Revolver. 

I have been seeing several beautiful pansy beds.  If you use blood meal a couple of times a month it will fertilize and keep the deer and rabbits away from your flowers. You need to start cutting back the crape myrtles, butterfly bushes, oranmental grasses, liropie, and roses for the winter.  If there are shrubs you would like lowered or trees limbed up this is a good time as the plant is now dormant. The late winter and early spring is the idea time for planting, especially transplanting.  You can spray Horticultural Oil on your shrubs, which will reduce insects like aphids, white flies, and spider mites.

We have also opened several branches in Atlanta.  In 2011, we provided landscape maintenance, landscaping, irrigation, and lawn care in Cumming, Alpharetta, Suwanee, Roswell, Duluth, Johns Creek, Milton, Canton, Woodstock, and Norcross.  We now have a branch in Braselton, which will also service Buford, Gainesville, Hoschton, Sugar Hill, Suwanee, and Jefferson.  A branch in Winder, which will also service Athens, Bogart, Lawrenceville, and Snellville.  A branch in Decatur, which will also service Stone Mountain, Tucker, Druid Hills, Moringside, Atlanta, and Buckhead.  A branch in Vinings, which will also service Buckhead, Smyrna, and Atlanta.

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Creech Landscape Jan 2012 Newsletter

Jan 2012 Newsletter
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We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. The warm weather has accelrated the germination of poa annua.  We are spraying Simazine and as the warm spring temperatures return we will begin to spray Revolver.  Over the next two months, we will made pruning the crape myrtles, ornamental grasses, liropie, and roses. If there are shrubs you would like lowered or trees limbed up please let me know. The late winter and early spring is the idea time for planting. Late Feb we will begin scalping the warm season grasses. This is an excellent time to aerate.

In the winter, we can spray Horticultural Oil on your shrubs, which will reduce insects like aphids, white flies, and spider mites. We will be applying pre-emergence in Feb. Also, let me know if you would like your trees and shrubs fertilized. This needs to be done before the azaleas bloom. Also, this early spring is the time for grub treatment in the soil. This is very important to reduce the insects like the Japanese Beatle in the spring. 

          PLANT OF THE MONTH                           TREE OF THE MONTH

      ‘Bill Wallace’ Dwarf Loropetalum                                 Dogwood


Now is a good time to put down pine straw and mulch as Spring is just round the corner. Call me for any spring projects.

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