In This Issue
Sprinkler Check!
The Weather Outlook
Featured Job: Backyard Oasis
Proper Pruning
Video: Xeriscaping
Sprinkler Check!
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Each month, this segment will give you tips and advice on the best way to maintain and get the most of your spinkler/irrigation system.

 

Watering Guidelines for September

PLEASE FAITHFULLY FOLLOW YOUR CITY'S WATERING GUIDELINES AND RESTRICTIONS!

 

If you need help adjusting your watering schedule, please give us a call. We can customize your distribution and timing to ensure you are in compliance. 

 

Tip of the Month!

Need help installing a sensor? Not even sure if your system has one? That's why we're here! These are crucial components of your system and ensure you aren't wasting water in this tough drought.  

 

And always, remember to visit our Irrigation page.

 

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The Weather Outlook
  

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Customer Testimonials

Read this month's testimonial from another Lucky Lawn customer satisfied with her  Lucky Lawn experience:

"I have used the services of Lucky Lawn since my family moved to Plano. Juan and his crew have always been courteous and dependable. For over the past 7 years, they have provided lawn care, tree and shrub trimming, as well as tree removal around my home. Lucky Lawn's work is the best!"

 

    - Marilyn Sevin

 

Featured Job:

Natural Backyard Oasis! 

Observe how Lucky Lawn used simple stonework and the right landscaping to create a natural, welcoming refuge in this DFW backyard.
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September 2011

 

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Greetings!

You haven't heard from us for a couple of months but yes, we have survived the intense summer of 2011!

We are back in this September issue with tips on pruning and watering, a look at the fall weather forecast, and an intriguing video on the topic of xeriscaping.

Never hesitate to consider us your ally in the art of landscaping and lawn maintenance.

Sincerely,

Juan Gallera, Owner
214-455-4240
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Follow Proper Pruning Techniques

An excerpt from an article by Douglas F. Welsh, Professor and Extension Horticulturist and
Everett Janne, Extension Landscape Horticulturist (deceased) of AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M University

 

pruning imageNote from Juan: According to these experts, if you aren't pruning correctly, you may be doing more harm than good. If you have any doubts, let Lucky Lawn advise you. See the coupon at the bottom of this newsletter!

Proper pruning enhances the beauty of almost any landscape tree and shrub, while improper pruning can ruin or greatly reduce its landscape potential. In most cases, it is better not to prune than to do it incorrectly. In nature, plants go years with little or no pruning, but man can ruin what nature has created. By using improper pruning methods healthy plants are often weakened or deformed. In nature, every plant eventually is pruned in some manner. It may be a simple matter of low branches being shaded by higher ones resulting in the formation of a collar around the base of the branch restricting the flow of moisture and nutrients. Eventually the leaves wither and die and the branch then drops off in a high wind or storm. Often, tender new branches of small plants are broken off by wild animals in their quest for food. In the long run, a plant growing naturally assumes the shape that allows it to make the best use of light in a given location and climate. All one needs to do to appreciate a plant's ability to adapt itself to a location is to walk into a wilderness and see the beauty of natural growing plants.

Pruning, like any other skill, requires knowing what you are doing to achieve success. The old idea that anyone with a chain saw or a pruning saw can be a landscape pruner is far from the truth. More trees are killed or ruined each year from improper pruning than by pests. Remember that pruning is the removal or reduction of certain plant parts that are not required, that are no longer effective, or that are of no use to the plant. It is done to supply additional energy for the development of flowers, fruits, and limbs that remain on the plant. Pruning, which has several definitions, essentially involves removing plant parts to improve the health, landscape effect, or value of the plant. Once the objectives are determined and a few basic principles understood, pruning primarily is a matter of common sense.

The necessity for pruning can be reduced or eliminated by selecting the proper plant for the location. Plants that might grow too large for the site, are not entirely hardy, or become unsightly with age should be used wisely and kept to a minimum in the landscape plan. Advances in plant breeding and selection in the nursery industry provide a wide assortment of plants requiring little or no pruning. However, even the most suitable landscape plants often require some pruning. The guidelines presented in this publication should be helpful when pruning any plant.

Reasons for Pruning

  • to train the plant
  • to maintain plant health
  • to improve the quality of flowers, fruit, foliage or stems
  • to restrict growth

Read the complete article here!

 

Contact Lucky Lawn for an estimate and/or consultation regarding your next potential pruning job. 

Is Xeriscaping the Landscaping Wave of the Future?
These hot and dry times in Texas and around the region have many people wondering how they can maintain a beautiful, healthy landscape and still be good conservers of water. Xeriscaping could be the answer! The video below is a great introduction to the topic. Is it a direction you'd like to move in? Give us call for a consultation!
Xeriscaping: native plants and a drought-tolerant yard (LEED landscape in Sun Valley, Idaho)
Xeriscaping: native plants and a drought-tolerant yard (LEED landscape in Sun Valley, Idaho)

 

From pruning to watering to xeriscaping, we hope we've touched upon a topic that is immediately of interest to you! Please take a moment to connect with us on both Facebook Find us on Facebook and Twitter Follow us on Twitter, and forward this on to a friend who might appreciate it. In the meantime, give us a call for a free estimate on your next service!

 

Sincerely,

 


Juan Gallera  
Lucky Lawn
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