Nashville Coral Bells – Heuchera

This is information on one of our favorite plants from our site www.landscapenashville.com . Heuchera or Coral Bells are one of our favorite ground covers because it lends upscale feelings to any area where you plant it. This plant has grape vine like leaves that come in a few different colors like purple, raspberry, or lemon lime. Shade tolerant, evergreen, and slow spreading you will have many years of enjoyment if you plant Coral Bells in your shadey areas. This is our page about Coral Bells www.landscapenashville.com/coral-bells.html

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Nashville Cherry Tree – Cherry Trees

We have created a page on our web site www.landscapenashville.com and made it about Cherry Trees, we have taken lots of photos. Yoshino Cherry trees are in our photos and video. We plant cherry trees for the public in Middle Tn and Nashville areas. Plan ahead and you can have abundant blooms this Spring with a Yoshino Cherry Tree. To visit our page on Cherry Trees visit www.landscapenashville.com/cherry-trees.html

Nashville Aerating – Core Aerating your Lawn

Here at landscapenashville.com we want to let everyone in the Middle Tn Nashville area know that you should aerify your yard at least once a year. Core aerification is the preferred.

There are different ways to aerify your yard. One method involves a machine that when pulled through the yard slices lines about a couple of inches deep into the soil through the grass. This method works but for the shortest period of time because the slices soon close up after a few rainfalls. There is a method whereby solid metal rods are shoved a few inches into the soil and pushes an opening into the ground. This method also has drawbacks because you are compacting the sides of the hole apart and making a surface inside the hole that is hard or oxygen to penetrate until after a few weeks of weathering and then eventually the holes close back in anyhow and you lose the effect.

We use core aerification, through this process we pull up 2″ plugs and they get set on top of the lawn. When the process is finished you have lots of small plugs of soil laying in the yard. These disolve within a few weeks and slowly become part of the makeup of the lawn unseen. Lots of great things happen with core aerification. 1. The soil is removed from its compacted location and set on top of the grass. 2. a hole is created for this years seed or fertilizer if you are doing those at that time which makes a small warm moist microclimate for your seed to germinate in. 3. As the plug begins to dissolve back into the regular soil level your soil enjoys an uneven surface that allows air into the holes in the ground as well as around the plug that is dissolving. Micro-organisms love this because they need oxygen to survive also and many new habitats are made for these beneficial organisms.

As these organisms are living out their lives they create beneficial enzymes that the plants use on a cellular level to help roots feed on nutrients. With core aerification your soil benefits, your grass benefits, and you benefit.

 

To see our page on core aerification please visit www.landscapenashville.com/core-aerification-lawn.html

Middle Tn Nashville Dry Creek Bed Drainage

I have created a page on my site www.landscapenashville.com that has pictures and a description of a Dry Creek Bed as a solution for steep areas for drainage. Dry creek Beds are decorative and solve drainage problems at the same time. Someone may have a small grand canyon where the water is eroding the soil away and now a dry creek bed can be a solution that stops the eroding, and is a decorative landscape feature on their property. The page with this information is

www.landscapenashville.com/dry-creek-bed-middle-tn.html

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Corner Plants for your home

I have created a page chocked full of what to do with the corner of your home with plants. Evergreens, Floweing shrubs and small trees, and fragrant plants. You can use the corner of your home for a dramatic statement or a simple edge softener. Our page for Corner Plants is www.landscapenashville.com/corner-plants.html

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We hope you get wonderful information you can use from our page on Corner Plants.

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Green Landscaping Compost Seeding Landscaping Nashville

This is a great green landscaping idea for people who live in the Nashville area. In Nashville our soil is generally terrible. Limestone pieces usually litter the soil and where it is not lime it is usually clay and compacted at that. Well there is a cure — sort of. At least there is a prescription the Doctor has told me about. First Core Aerate, Core Aeration is when you punch holes in the soil by using a machine to dig up small plugs. Yes this process leaves your yard a mess with little mud pluggs all over the place. The purpose is to get oxygen and other airborn nutrients to the root zone and thatch area better of your grass plants. Ok the seccond reason to do this is so that when you seed ( we seed every year here ) your small grass seed will fall into the hole and be surrounded by a warm blanket of air and moisture that at the surface it may not have. Ground temperatures play a huge roll in helping the seed to germinate and establish properly. Well now you have made holes in the yard and your seed is all over as well now your going to get some Aged compost. Aged compost has aged to the point where it doesn’t heat up quickly anymore and it is great food for beneficial organisms as well as a mild fertilizer. Spread 1″ of aged compost all over the whole yard. The results are astounding.

Your seed germinates faster, grows healthier, and makes a beautiful yard. As long as you water and do the other appropriate things like mow when appropriate. A surprise  happens to the soil as well. These tiny little worms called nematodes will mix the compost and the clay together while producing a enzyme and other excretions that plants love. This is changing the composition of your soil slowly.

Check out more great information at our home page www.landscapenashville.com

The specific page for Compost Seeding is www.landsapenashville.com/compost-seed-middle-tn.html

Thank you and we hope you can use our ideas in your landscape. Better yet add some of your ideas to our blog.

Columnar Plants in the Landscape Nashville Landscaping

This is a great page for adding an upscale feel  to your landscape using columnar plants. Great colors and contrasts in texture change the overall feel. Check it my page is sure not to dissapoint if you love gardening and landscaping. Our home page is www.landscapenashville.com  and the specific page is www.landscapenashville.com/columnar-plants.html

I hope you enjoy and comment on any plants I may have missed.

Pear Tree Nashville

This page is about Pears and Bradford pear trees. Beautiful in bloom a wonderful sight in Spring. Our home page is www.landscapenashville.com and the specific page is www.landscapenashville.com/pear-trees.html

I hope you enjoy.

Brandywine Maple Tree Nashville

Our new Brandywine Maple page is a great page because there are very little pictures of this very special Maple. This Maple Tree has a specially long color change period which gives you a longer time to enjoy the Fall color. Brandywine Maples also don’t get a large as a typical Maple which make it more useful in the landscape where you cannot plant large trees or want a contrast in colors. www.landscapenashville.com is our home page and the specific page about  Brandywine Maples is www.landscapenashville.com/brandywine-maple.html

Nashville Boulders Page

We have a page called Nashville Boulders that will show you pictues of boulders, define a boulder, and let you know that we sell them in our jobs. Boulders in a landscape add a depth of character that nothing else can. A boulder to some is a big rock to others and on this page you will see that a boulder has a specific size definition. Visit our Boulders page here- www.landscapenashville.com/boulders.html

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