What is a Garden?

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors adjoining our houses used for growing flowers, fruits, vegetables and other plants. We provide caring to our plants, like removing the weeds, watering the plants and adding manure to the soil. Besides, the garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials for landscaping to enhance its ornamental value. There are several types of gardens few of which are mentioned below:

                

Woodland Gardens

Woodland gardens are for nature lovers for a more carefree and relaxed feeling. It is low maintenance landscaping idea where native plants or others having similar traits, are grown that require less caring. Shade plants can be grown in shady areas of the garden. Various kinds of wild flowers make it attractive and colorful.

Tropical Gardens

The tropical garden is not much different from other gardens except that it features tropical plants and requires good rainfall. Basically, it has same basic needs like healthy soil and proper fertilization.

Water Gardens

A water garden can be as simple or as complex as one may want it to be. It can include fountains, waterfalls, and small water ponds with elaborate combinations of rockwork and lighting. Basically, a water garden is just a pool of water that is home to plants and possibly fish and other water creatures.

Japanese Gardens

Art works are an important part of Japanese culture and Japanese garden always abounds with different art forms. The Japanese garden is mostly designed according to nature and combines basic elements like plants, water, and rocks.

Environmental Gardens

Environmental gardens emerge from our passion to save environment to save native species bio-diverse ecosystem. It uses sustainably soured materials. These specialty gardens can range from xeriscape gardens to rain gardens and wildlife gardens. Creating environment gardens is a major step towards reducing our carbon footprint.  

Cutting Gardens

A cutting garden grows more colorful flowers for the pleasure of having fresh bouquets to decorate their homes and also to give away to friends. Annuals are generally the favored cutting flowers as they tend to repeat bloom and grow quickly. People who grow flowers are essentially the ones who enjoy the colorful display in the landscape.

Maintenance Services Investing in a Perfect Yard

Lawn Care and Maintenance helps your yard look beautiful and stay healthy. We understand a lawn isn't just grass - it's an investment. An investment of not only time and money, but also of dreams and memories. Of course you want your yard to look perfect. Our Ayres Landscapes Maintenance Services can help you achieve the perfect lawn you've always wanted.

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The Primary Focal Points of Our Maintenance 

Programs:

• Lawn Fertilization
• Crabgrass Control
• Broadleaf Weed control
• Pre-emergent Weed Control
• Pest Control

Yard maintenance applied by your local Ayres Landscapes Services Professionals provide services that helps keep your grass green and lush, eliminating clover or dandelions and preventing crabgrass from appearing. A healthy lawn also helps keep out disease. Our Lawn Maintenance Professionals can tailor a lawn care approach for your yard based on their knowledge of the specific area, considering everything from climate to average rainfall rates in your area.

Custom Lawn Services and Maintenance

Because our lawn care services are designed to fulfill the needs of your specific yard, there is no exact timeframe in which lawn treatments must be applied. We don't base your lawn care program on a one-size-fits-all standard. However, typical lawn care services call for four to six applications per year.

Our exclusive lawn maintenance equipment is extremely efficient - capable of applying lawn fertilizer and treating every inch of your lawn. Plus, you don't even have to be home at the time of your lawn service. Instead of spending endless hours mowing the lawn or on yard work, you can spend more time with your family or participate in your favorite pastime. See our Custom Lawn Care Services for more information.

Lawn Maintenance Tips

Since Ayres Landscapes Services can't monitor your lawn all the time, our experts have collected a wide range of resources to help with your lawn mowing, lawn watering and other Lawn Care Tips to keep your yard healthy every day.

Many of our local locations offer Lawn Mower Maintenance that helps improve the longevity of your lawn mowing equipment and the resulting condition of your lawn. Ask your local Ayres Landscapes Services dealer for help with lawn mower maintenance recommendations.

Ayres Landscapes Services Lawn Maintenance 

Guarantee

If any one of our Lawn Applications does not achieve satisfactory results, simply let us know. As your trusted locally operated Ayres Landscapes Services franchise, we will either return and reapply that lawn care application at no additional charge or refund the full cost of your last lawn application. 

7 Tips for Saving Water in Your Landscape

Want to create a beautiful landscape for your home that also saves water? Check out these smart tips that will reduce landscape water use but still leave your property looking beautiful and alive.

1. Start early. Plan ahead so that all new plantings take place in the spring. It keeps you out of the summer heat. Plus, plants require much less water to get situated in the spring than warmer months.

2. Go native. When deciding what to install in your yard, consider native and drought-resistant plants. They typically require less maintenance and little watering once established (sometimes none at all!)

 

3. Add compost and mulch. Use compost when planting and cover the area with mulch afterwards. Compost helps keep the water by the plant’s roots and mulch prevents evaporation. Make sure to leave some space around the base of each plant and resist creating mulch mounds around plants and trees.

 

 4. Reduce your lawn. The average American household uses 320 gallons of water per day, about 30 percent of which is devoted to outdoor uses. More than half of that outdoor water is used for watering lawns and gardens. Consider replacing some of that grass with an attractive groundcover that is drought-resistant, covers a large area, and requires zero mowing.

 5. Let it super soak. Up a third of all water from sprinklers can evaporate during the heat of the day. Instead, give your plants fewer, heavy soakings. If you must use sprinklers, only use them in the morning.

6. Reuse greywater or capture rainwater. Reusing grey water or capturing rainwater offers a free source for landscape irrigation. These systems can be easily installed and even incorporated into irrigation systems.

 

 7. Set up a drip irrigation system. Drip irrigation systems water plants right at the root and are an efficient alternative to sprinkler systems. They use 20 to 50 percent less water than conventional pop-up sprinkler systems and can save up to 30,000 gallons per year. Be sure to get a timer for maximum effectiveness.

How to Repair Your Lawn

Diagnose the Lawn Problem

Figure out why you need to repair your lawn. If you don't determine the problem, fixing your lawn could be a waste of time. For example, if grubs are the problem, you'll need to treat for them before laying a new lawn. But if too much shade is the problem, you're better off forgetting a lawn and investing in low-maintenance shade-loving ground covers instead.

Give Your Lawn a Fresh Start

If more than half of your lawn is screaming for help, start from scratch. Spray the lawn with an herbicide containing glyph sate (be sure to follow all directions on the packaging). It kills all vegetation but allows new turf to re-establish quickly

 

Mow the Lawn Low

Wait a couple of weeks after applying the herbicide, then mow the turf as short as you can. It may seem counterintuitive to really scalp it as you repair a lawn, but this low mowing leaves the area with short, dead plants, to prevent erosion, and keeps the dead plants from shading your new lawn too much.

 

Rake, Rake, Repeat

Next step in how to repair your lawn: Visit your local rental center and get a power rake. Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds -- many models are as easy to handle as the average lawn mower. To save yourself frustration, ask the clerk to show you how to adjust the blades.

You want to leave just the barest layer (about 1/4 inch) of thatch on the ground. Then rake off the remaining debris and compost it. You'll know you've raked enough when you see equal amounts bare soil and dead grass stems. Then spread a thin layer of compost over the soil and rake it in evenly.

Seed the Lawn

Now it's time to plant your lawn. If you're using seed, follow the instructions on the package to determine how much seed to use. This is important: Not enough, and your lawn will be thin and scraggly. To make the seed application uniform, spread half the seed in a north/south direction, then turn around and apply the other half in an east/west direction. This will lessen the likelihood that you'll end up with bare spots.

If you're installing sprigs or plugs, it's just a matter of digging little holes and plopping the plants in place. Cut a small trench for sprigging and using a transplanter tool for plugs. You can usually buy this little tool from the same place you purchased the plugs.

Deter New Weeds in the Lawn

This is an optional step, but it's pretty easy and usually worth the effort when you repair a lawn. Apply a pre-emergence herbicide containing siduron. This product will prevent crabgrass seeds from sprouting, yet allow lawn grass seed to grow. Note: If you renovate in fall, this isn't necessary, because crabgrass is mainly a problem in spring.

 Water a Repaired Lawn Well

When everything is planted, your task is to keep the repaired lawn moist. For the first week or so after planting, be sure the soil does not go dry. After the grass is up and growing, it's like the story of the three bears: You don't want the area too dry or too soggy, but just moist. This may mean watering a couple of times a day early on (for short, five-minute applications). Over time, you can go to a once-a-day watering for 10 or 15 minutes. It's important that the moisture be applied evenly so that your seed doesn't wash away, creating bare spots.

Feeding Your Repaired Lawn

When the grass shoots are about an inch tall, apply a starter fertilizer to encourage growth. The same goes for sprigs and plugs: After you see a couple of new shoots, apply fertilizer. But be sure to wait until there's growth -- you can burn roots if you fertilize too early.

Start Mowing Your New, Repaired Lawn

When the grass is about 3 inches tall, give it its first mowing. This will discourage weeds and encourage the spread of your grass. This simple step makes a huge difference in the success of the project!

Be sure the mower blade is sharp the first time you mow; a dull blade could rip the seedlings right out of the ground. Then mow as normal once the grass is the height you want it. For the health of your turf, don't cut off more than a third of the leaf length in any one mowing