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The Importance Of Spring Cleanup

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Just as your home needs a clean-up after winter, your landscape, lawns, and gardens are not an exception. While winter can be beautiful to experience, its adverse effect on your home’s landscape cannot be overlooked. From run-down-looking lawns to dry and lifeless leaves to heavy snow mold growth on the lawns, spring cleanup is no doubt needed to restore your landscape’s appearance and also prepare it for spring.

What Does It Mean To Spring-Clean?

Spring cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house or lawn in the springtime. In simpler terms, spring cleaning requires you to clean up the messes left on your lawn or garden by winter, your messy neighbors, and the neighborhood dogs.

The average spring cleaning process involves clearing away dead leaves, branches, and clutters on the lawn, clearing off the swept debris, and probably composting them if necessary. It also entails mowing the grass, touching up the flower beds and reshaping the garden, pruning the shrubs, and trimming off the trees.

Asides from the obvious beautifying benefits of spring cleaning, which include enhancing the physical feature of your home, allowing you to enjoy the outdoor living space, and simultaneously increasing the value of your property, spring cleaning has other benefits it can offer not only to your home but also to your overall health.

Importance Of Spring Clean-Up.

1.    Improves air quality in the soil

As winter intensifies, snow and wind may bring down dead leaves, twigs, branches, and debris from the roof into your lawn, causing dead, brown, and unattractive patches on the lawn as the flow of oxygen has been limited. Spring cleaning helps remove this debris off the lawn, allowing the free flow of oxygen which promotes growth.

2.    Strengthen your immune system

Winter is known to promote the buildup of allergens and pollens in and out of your home, and this can cause major harm to susceptible individuals. With spring cleaning, these allergens that have to build up over time can be properly removed, leaving the air free and safer to breathe in.

3.    Promotes the growth of your vegetation

A professional and comprehensive spring cleanup offers hundreds of benefits to your lawn and one of the many is facilitating the growth of your vegetation which entails the lawn or garden. During spring cleanup, cleaning processes like weeding, mulching, seeding, and pruning with the right tools can help remove the damages caused by winter and offer an environment that promotes the health and growth of your home vegetation.

4.    Protects the soil from biological decomposing agents

Winter displaces several biological components into hiding, and a dirty lawn or garden serves as the perfect spot for pests and other diseases. Without spring cleaning, these decomposing agents will wreak havoc in your garden, damaging the soil and plants.

Conclusion

In need of a professional spring cleanup? Why not contact Lolas Landscape, a leading landscape and property maintenance agency with years of experience in construction, landscaping, spring cleaning, and overall property maintenance.

We are an experienced and reputable company that has continually delivered spring cleaning and property maintenance services to millions of families like you in need. Our excellent service helps you save time that can be cultivated into other valuable activities, and you are assured of the highest quality whenever you put a call to them.

 

Landscaping Trends You Should Consider for 2021

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2020 is coming to an end, and it was pretty much not what we had expected. Having said this, it was a year to reflect on ourselves and appreciate the little things we have taken for granted. Whether it was staying at home to work or having the time to watch your baby/children grow up every minute, there were still a lot of positives to take out of it. With the new year still up in the air, it looks like we will be spending more time at our home, which is a great time to look into landscaping ideas to spruce up the mood, environment, and lifestyle around your home. Lola’s Landscape has come up with some exciting upcoming trends you should look into for 2021.

Vegetable Gardens 

What better way to increase your home cooking productivity than investing more time in growing your vegetables rather than keeping a distance and waiting in a long line at a grocery store? Perhaps you started pretty late this year as you were not expecting to stay at home for this long but 2021 is a great time to get ahead of yourself and prepare ahead of time and watch your vegetables grow! Start early, and you won’t be disappointed!

Turning Your Backyard into a Playground

Do you remember the swimming pool trend every parent did for their kids in the summer? Well, 2021 will be no different. Having more time to spend time with them, you should consider making the most out of the backyard and turn it into an entertainment area for parents and kids! If you are looking to do something creative, you could turn your home and backyard into a resort! How fun would that be? Your options are endless if you put the time into it. Who knows how long we get to keep these precious memories before reality kicks in.

Spruce Up Your Landscape

Always wanted to take your landscape visual seriously? Please pay close attention to the small details around your home. From the front to the backyard, it’s important to see what you can design to make your project a reality. Plan ahead, buy tools and equipment now while they are at a reasonable price!

Get Started Now

While most of us are stuck in the Winter mode, not planning anything until the weather decides to warm up, we recommend taking a stroll around the house and envision what late Spring/Summer would be like next year. What ideas would you like to get done? If you are unsure how to put together a plan, not to worry, Lola’s Landscape has a design team that can map out how your landscape could look. Sometimes we just need a helping hand, and we are ready to help! Contact us for more information. 

5 Weekend Projects to Increase the Value of your Home

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The work week can get insanely busy. There’s no limit to what work might ask of you, and worst of all, when you finally get home, your energy is likely on empty. For most homeowners, the best time to get a project done is going to be the weekend but given the short amount of time available on Saturday and Sunday, its best to plan to maximize that time as efficiently as possible. Here are 5-weekend projects that increase the value of your home in the most noticeable way possible.

Landscaping

Nothing says more about your home than the look of the outside. A messy landscaping job can likely point to a messy interior, and that’s a major turn off should you ever decide to try and sell the home. Adding mulch and some plants around a mailbox could even be enough to increase the perspective value of your home, and larger projects only provide a larger return on investments.

Renovate the Kitchen

The kitchen is one of the most highly noticeable changes that you can make to a home. The countertops alone could help boost the value of your home by a few thousand dollars. Not to mention, when selling a home, it is a huge buyer’s hotspot to check and see what condition the kitchen is in. Make the improvements now, for your sake, and the possibility of a sale in the future.

Make it Energy Efficient

Your home is likely losing value due to outdated heating and cooling tools. Not only could the actual system need an update, but the various things that keep cool and hot air in the house like windows and installation might need a tune-up too. A consultation could point you in the right direction and get your value up exponentially.

Have a Flexible Floor Plan

A flexible floor plan allows you to make any room in the house whatever you may want it to be. That ability to choose the layout is a big improvement over feeling like each room is already determined for you. If you ever choose to sell this could be a huge factor.

Update Technology

This one is just as much for you as it is your home. Updating things to provide a smart home technology experience is a great way to make home life easier. A Nest thermostat or Philips Hue lighting system could really make it feel like you are living in the future.

These changes make your home’s value skyrocket, and they’re easy to knock out in a weekend!

Landscape Ideas to Enhance Curb Appeal

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Creating curb appeal for your home can add value to your home and also give you more of a relaxing place to come home to. Many people want the comfort of a great curb appeal, and this can be done with a relatively low budget. Professional landscaping services can help you to make your dreams of updating, increasing value, and giving you a relaxing home a reality.

What are landscape ideas to enhance curb appeal? Some of the best ways to improve the curb appeal of your home are done by professional service. These include manicure of shrubs and bushes, investment in a beautiful cement or another material walkway, and to update your entry space with paint, plants, and even a new patio or porch. This guide will list the best options for updating the curb appeal of your home.

Update Hardscapes

Stone and gravel walkways are a great way to update your curb appeal. Also, adding stone-walled outdoor kitchens and patio space can help to combine the beauty of the outdoor front space of your yard with the architecture of your house. Make sure to consult a professional about the options your area holds and consider the possibilities that will maximize that space.

Add Lighting

Lighting at the front door is crucial. No one wants to step up in the night to a dark doorway. Upgrading that light can add appeal from the curb. Also, lighting that goes throughout the yard and highlights some of the best features of the yard can give a park atmosphere to your yard and increase nighttime curb appeal. Finally, lighting up your walkway can help with safety and can be a selling point for people looking for a house with better access.

Refresh Mulch

Mulch and wood chips as landscaping are a great idea. However, mulch has a lifespan and can get old and even mold. Refresh the color and even smell of your yard. A refreshing aura of your yard will let people experience your upgrade upon visiting your home.

Lawn

Always keep your garden mowed and fertilized. This will keep it neat and green. Thick grass is very highly sought after in most neighborhoods and adds curb appeal immediately. Hiring a weekly landscaper to take care of your lawn is the best way to stay on top of your yard and not let it get out of control.

Hiring a landscaping professional can help you to imagine, create, and maintain your curb appeal in the front of your home. Reimagine the front of your home and update with things like hardscape projects and new mulch. Then, maintain your front with lawn care and mulch replacement occasionally. For help with refreshing your curb appeal, contact Lola’s Landscape today at (774) 248-4584.