If your yard is in full sun, you’ve hit the lawn lottery.
If your yard is in full sun, you’ve hit the lawn lottery.
Sone landscape lighting mistakes are obvious. Like if you’re reading this with your leg in a cast because you tripped over your neighbor’s black cat that disappeared in your dark driveway.
Everybody loves pergolas, those pretty, airy, covered spaces that add instant class to your landscape.
It’s the perfect place to be fancy and host a party, or grab that last cherry popsicle and hide out from your kids.
Deep down, you know your sprinkler system just isn’t right.
Sure, it sprays water. But you can tell its heart really isn’t in it anymore.
It’s easy to be in a hurry when it comes to new sod.
You can’t wait to walk on it barefoot and invite your friends over for mango margaritas to show it off.
If you hire any old company to install your landscape lighting, sure, you’ll have lights.
But you might not have magic.
When it’s expertly designed by skilled lighting pros, landscape lighting transforms your home and yard.
It’ll look so elegant and high-end, you might drive right past the first few nights, assuming it’s somebody else’s fantastic house.
But not everybody does it well.
A great fence can change everything.
Now your new puppy can romp safely around your yard.
You can eat your morning cereal on the patio in your underwear in privacy. (Yes! Finally!)
But new fences can look kind of bare.
How do you landscape around a fence?
When you daydream about your beautiful new paver patio, you don’t imagine somebody tripping over a crooked paver and tumbling into your avocado corn salsa.
That’s because in your daydream, your pavers are expertly installed. No uneven pavers sticking up, or sunken pavers, or cracked pavers.
There’s a sense of security in having an irrigation system, right?
You know it’s out there, dependably chugging away, keeping your lawn and landscaping happy and healthy.
Bad sod installation. Man, those are three sad words.
Getting new sod is supposed to be exciting. A new lawn! Instantly!
But as magical as it sounds, sod installation isn’t magic. It’s a skill. It’s hard work. It has to be done just right.
If you or your sod installer messed up, you might end up with poorly installed sod.
Here are some signs of bad sod installation: