Shrubs & Plants

It is very easy to start off on the wrong foot when planning your landscape project. You stop in at the nursery or garden center and see all those wonderful choices. All the color, texture, and blooms can be intoxicating. You hastily make impulse purchases based on what catches your eye. You bring it home and plant it. Somehow it does not look right. You like the plants all right but what’s wrong? Further down the road many of your plants are struggling for survival and others quickly outgrowing their location. This happens with homeowners as well as with some landscape contractors.

There is a method to invoke to avoid many of these problems. That is the process of planning and design. With home values skyrocketing do you want your home’s curb appeal left to chance? A design, whether done by you or a professional, is important in helping you make important decisions about what you want and of course plant selection.

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The deer population in New Jersey has reached epidemic proportions. Most of our rural suburban and even urban communities have some level of deer pressure.

Beyond damaging millions of dollars in landscape plantings they are also damaging agricultural crops, horticultural crops, and our natural woodlands.

While our politicians wrestle with how to handle this issue we are left to fend for ourselves with our landscapes and gardens.

The first lesson in deer resistant plant selections is that nothing is deer proof!

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