Although the onset of winter may tempt you to cuddle up indoors and forget about your backyard, preparing your landscape for the harsh winter months will leave it in better shape when spring finally arrives. A dismal, unkempt backyard is also a sight for sore eyes and can be detrimental to the look of your home during winter. Here are a few landscaping tips to keep your backyard healthy and gorgeous throughout the trials of winter.

As surprising as it may be for the casual gardener, fall in Dutchess County, NY, is in fact, a great time for plantings. Mild weather and fertile soil from a summer of amped up bioprocesses make fall a pleasant planting period for both gardeners and plants. While in the spring and summer, plants prioritize energy to their leaves to maximize photosynthesis, planting in the fall encourages deep root growth as plants seek nutrients from below. 

Fall is a perfect time to plant. Air temperatures are dropping, but the soil is still quite warm – perfect for root development. Unlike the tops of ornamental plants that go dormant and cease growth for the winter, roots of ornamental plants continue to grow throughout the winter months.

Is it too early to start thinking about a lush, green lawn? Why because it’s buried in snow? March will be here before you know it, so call today to ensure a beautiful lawn all season long!

Drainage issues at your property can be a frustrating and reoccurring problem that can cause a number of problems in your landscape and home. Issues resulting from excessive standing water can range from causing a detrimental effect upon your existing landscape plants to causing large areas of dying lawn, to problems inside your residence such as a basement full of water.

On September 20th Lehigh Lawns & Landscaping friends, family and business associates will be participating as a team in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk.

An outdoor kitchen is much more than a BBQ grill. Make entertaining more fun and build up your whole outdoor area around the kitchen! Consider the option of adding an outdoor sitting wall, a fire pit, a patio area for outdoor furniture, wall planters, or a pergola!

It's time to schedule your irrigation spring start up to ensure that your system is operating efficiently and effectively.

Belgium block is quarried stone cut into rough, rectangular shapes used extensively for municipal curbing, driveways and landscaping applications.

The entry to your home is the focal point of your entire landscape. It is the place where family, friends, co-workers and others come to enter your home.

Drainage issues at your property can be a frustrating and reoccurring problem that can cause a number of problems in your landscape and home. Issues resulting from excessive standing water can range from causing a detrimental effect upon your existing landscape plants to causing large areas of dying lawn, to problems inside your residence such as a basement full of water.

The late fall or winter is the best time to prune most trees. Pruning during this dormant period minimizes sap loss and subsequent stress to the tree. It also minimizes the risk of fungus infection or insect infestation as both fungi and insects are likely to be in dormancy at the same time as the tree. Finally, in the case of deciduous trees, pruning when the leaves are off will give you a better idea of how your pruning will affect the shape of the tree. Some fruiting and flowering trees should be pruned at other times of the year, depending on whether they flower on the previous year's growth or not.

A Fall Clean-Up is the systematic collection and removal of any leaves, sticks, and debris littering your property as a result of the changing seasons. Your open areas of turf, landscape beds and hardscapes, are all included in our Fall Clean-Up Package. This service is primarily performed using a variety of backpack and wheeled blowers, though certain areas may require us to rake them by hand.

Why is fall the best time? Unlike the tops of ornamental plants that go dormant and cease growth for the winter, roots of ornamental plants continue to grow throughout the winter months. Fall planting allows all the energy produced during the previous growing season to be directed to root growth because there is little demand from the top of the plant. So when spring arrives, a well-established root system will be prepared to provide the necessary water and nutrients for optimum growth.

Nearly every homeowner desires an attractive lawn because this is one feature which most enhances the appearance of the average home grounds. Healthy, attractive lawns are not an accident but the result of a regularly and carefully executed maintenance program. This applies to the soil as well as to the turf grass itself. Here at Lehigh it is serious business.

Combining Core-Aeration and Slice Seeding gives your lawn twice the soil exposure. In addition, it relieves soil compaction so that new roots can easily penetrate and establish.

Lehigh Lawns & Landscaping has been designing and executing stunning outdoor living spaces for over 25 years. Nothing accents these spaces like pergola or fire pit!

Robins are in the lawn so that surely means that spring is here in the Hudson Valley! After such an intense winter it is a welcome sight! Lehigh Lawns & Landscaping recommends that you take some time to prioritize the needs of your landscaping in regards to spring cleaning.

When you can't wait to get started in the spring garden, a good task to undertake is pruning trees and shrubs. Most (not all) benefit from annual pruning. It gets rids of dead and diseased wood, encourages new growth and keeps them in shape. Some trees and shrubs should not be pruned early, especially some of the flowering ones.

Why, because it’s buried in snow? March will be here before you know it, so it’s not too early to think of what your lawn might need when the weather breaks in early spring. Consider a fertilization package to ensure a beautiful lawn all season long!