Outdoor lighting works pretty hard.
It makes you feel safe when you walk around outside at night, offers a cheerful greeting when you pull in the driveway, sets the mood when you entertain friends outside after sundown, and highlights your home’s most impressive features after dark.
It keeps you from tripping over your kid’s toys and tumbling into the pool in your clothes. That’s worth a lot, right?
So how much does all this life-changing light cost?
Once your new sod is installed, it’s easy to panic if things don’t seem quite right.
Here’s what it costs if you don’t maintain your irrigation system: your lawn might die.
If you sigh at the smell of freshly mown grass, love the sound of sprinklers chugging away, and delight at finding an elusive four-leaf clover in a fresh spring lawn, artificial turf isn’t for you.
If you’re rolling your eyes right now and thinking, “Dorks!” artificial turf might be exactly for you.
But there are other ways to tell if you should go with natural grass or artificial turf.
What are the differences between artificial grass and natural grass?
If you wanted a brown lawn, you would have installed dirt, right?
So when you see brown spots in your new sod, you start to panic.
Sure, if you’re pretty handy you can design and install your own paver walkway.
You’ll need some tools, from easy stuff like a shovel, work gloves, and hand saw to more specific things like edging, gravel and, if you have an old walkway to tear out, a jackhammer.
New sod and sprinkler installation go hand in hand, right?
New sod needs lots of water. It makes perfect sense.
But do you install sprinklers or sod first?
Let’s take a look.
Maybe your current irrigation system maintenance checklist looks like this:
No offense, but that’s a terrible checklist.
Florida is famous for its bright, cheerful tropical sun.
Grab your sunglasses! Set up the lounge chair! Soak up the warmth!
But after a while, it gets pretty hot. Really hot.
Shade! Where the heck is some shade?
Florida isn’t exactly known for its shade trees, which is pretty ironic, right?
So, what are the best trees for shade in Central Florida?
Ground Source landscape designer Eric Frisch shares a few of his favorites.
When it’s time to upgrade your favorite jeans, the signs are pretty obvious.
They won’t button anymore. You can see your skin through them. The zipper’s broke. Your spouse threw them away in disgust.
When it’s time to upgrade your irrigation system, do you know the signs?