The air is crisper and you need a jacket when you walk out the door. Your summer annuals are looking “leggy” and tired after a hot, dry summer. Fall is the season to freshen up your residential landscape with pops of color. COOL TEMPERATURES ADD DRAMA TO YOUR FLOWERBEDS Pull out those wave petunias and other annuals. It’s time to add some drama back into your flowerbeds this fall. Here are seven flowers and other colorful ideas to add to your autumn landscape: 1.    Pansies and violas are in: A lot of people know that pansies are one of the earliest spring flowers to plant after a white winter. And yet, pansies and their cousins, violas, add those magical colors and cute kitten-like faces to your planters, borders and beds in the fall as well. Deep purples, almost black as well as hints of yellows and whites in the center offer fall beauty. 2.    From vegetable to ornamental: If you think kale is only for dinnertime or smoothies, you probably never heard of flowering kale. Flowering kale is an ornamental plant that has deep [...]

The summer may be over. However, if you have a fescue lawn, it’s time to core aerate and overseed it. FALL CORE AERATION If you have a fescue lawn, a cool season grass, you need to rejuvenate it with core aeration every September. There are two types of grasses that grow on Oklahoma City lawns: cool season and warm season turfgrasses. Cool season grasses grow best in cooler conditions. Conversely, warm season grasses grow best in hot conditions. Oklahoma City homeowners have a mix of cool and warm season grasses on their properties. If the shady parts of your lawn have fescue, then it’s time to core aerate and overseed it. When your organic lawn care company core aerates your lawn, your technician will use an aerator to pull plugs of soil from the ground. Aeration allows carbon dioxide to be released from the soil, and oxygen to enter it. Here are five benefits of core aeration: 1.    It loosens up soil compaction  2.    It allows water and sunlight to penetrate the soil  3.    It removes excess thatch  4.    It prepares the soil for [...]

Are your shrubs looking a bit bushy? Do your hedges have branches growing out too long? Then, you need professional pruning to rejuvenate your woody ornamentals as well as tidy up your Oklahoma property. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PRUNING? Pruning your shrubs and hedges benefits the plant as well as improves your curb appeal. Here are six benefits of trimming your woody ornamentals: 1.    It allows the sun to penetrate and the air to circulate in the shrubs. 2.    It shows off the plants’ natural beauty and shape. 3.    It helps to prevent plant diseases, insects and death. 4.    It controls the plants’ size and shape. 5.    It adds symmetry and balance to your landscape. 6.    It helps rejuvenate deciduous shrubs (shrubs that lose their leaves in the fall). It’s hot outside. Read how to use smart watering techniques to keep your plants alive and save water at the same time. SELECTIVE PRUNING You may feel tempted to go out with a lopping shear, or a bow saw and start chopping off branches. However, don’t do it. To respect your shrubs and hedges natural shapes, you need to follow [...]