How to Create & Grow a Cottagecore Garden in 5 Easy Steps
A newfound charming essence that is brought to landscaping is a trend that is known as cottagecore gardening. This type of garden is one with various plants, fruits, vegetables, and especially where flowers reside. These garden spaces are typically not well manicured...
5 Quick Outdoor Home Improvements for Every Homeowner
Are you looking for a few tips on improving your outdoors? With very little effort, but much imagination, it is possible to complete each of the five outdoor home improvements in this article in as little as one short weekend. Because the weather has been so nice in...
12 Landscaping Tips to Keep a Beautiful Yard
12 Landscaping Tips to Keep a Beautiful Yard - Close your eyes and imagine that you are living in the house of your dreams. When the sun rises it lights up every room inside your house, creating a warm, welcoming environment. When the sun sets beyond the horizon, the...
How to Save Energy with Landscaping
Landscaping can save energy when planted with these strategic tips in mind. How to Save Energy with Landscaping Plant trees and shrubs for shade Tree placement can have a huge impact on air temperature and energy use. Strategically placed trees can provide shade,...
What to Do First When Designing a Backyard
So, you've decided to design your backyard… Or maybe your front yard. Whatever it is, you're doing something on your property that's outside of the initial living area. Whether it's creating an outdoor living space, patio, retaining wall, fabulous garden, fruit tree...
7 Creative Ways to Add Privacy to Your Backyard
7 Creative Ways to Add Privacy to Your Backyard - If you are trying to think of ways to add privacy to your backyard space, sometimes a little creativity is required. Of course, trees can provide shade and privacy eventually, but it may take a decade or two after your...
4 Unique Landscaping Ideas
4 Unique Landscaping Ideas - If you are tired of looking at the same old bland yard, the fix may be easier than you think. All you need are a few unique ideas to create a more attractive landscape. With a little bit of planning and maybe a trip to your local garden...
How To Prevent Weeds In A Wet Climate
How To Prevent Weeds In A Wet Climate - Although more rain eases the pressure when it comes to producing a healthy crop, it also encourages and accelerates weed growth in pastures and fields. The easiest way to deal with rainy weather weeds is to get a jump start on...
Best Trees to Plant in the Pacific Northwest
If you’re living in the Pacific Northwest region, you should learn more about native trees to plant in your backyard. Here’s a list of the best trees for the Pacific Northwest to plant in your backyard. Incense Cedar The incense cedar is a fast growing native...
8 Great Ways to Keep Up With Your Yard
Best Ways to Keep Up With Your Yard While there are certainly people who devote several hours per week to maintaining their yards, you don’t have to do so in order to keep your yard in excellent shape. By getting into the habit of doing a few routine things, you can...
Reaping The Benefits Of A Peaceful Backyard Oasis
Does the stress of the day have you longing for an outdoor escape? Instead of obsessing over your next vacation, consider unwinding in the peace and security of your backyard. Having a serene open-air space mere steps away can provide sunshine and fresh air for the...
Investing Wisely: Backyard Renovations & Upgrades
Looking to transform your outdoor space? From adding a sunroom to mounting a large-scale landscaping expedition, there are numerous ways to liven up your outdoor living area. While enhancing the backyard could enrich family time spent outside — on top of increasing...
2022 Garden Trends
As spring is just around the corner, there are new design styles and ideas for our outdoor spaces. The top garden ideas and garden trends for 2022 to steer you in the right direction. Spending more time at home means the search for style inspiration for outdoor living...
What Do Landscape Designers and Architects Do?
Landscape Designers are responsible for creating, presenting, and overseeing the development of landscapes for individuals and companies. They also provide maintenance services and landscaping designs. Maybe you have a pool or patio project that's bigger than you can...
Landscaping Maintenance-What is Important?
The term “landscaping maintenance” can lead one to believe it includes a number of different services but is a fairly vague term. Landscaping maintenance services include mowing, pruning, tree removal, edging, cultivation, fertilization, and broadleaf application....
When Do I Need to Blow Out My Irrigation?
What does it mean to blow out your irrigation? Your sprinkler system is a worthwhile investment that needs adequate care and maintenance. As the freezing winter season approaches, it’s critical to put your sprinklers to bed. Doing so prevents water freezing inside the...
What to Do With Your Garden in Windy Weather
What do you do with your garden when you live in windy weather? Rather than forgoing a well-planned yard altogether, gardeners in areas exposed to continuous or high winds should design the landscape with the weather in mind. The ideas below are extremely helpful in...
Landscaping for HOA Common Areas
HOA common areas need landscaping just as much as each individual parcel or loft. However, this type of landscaping should be relatively generic, easy on the eyes, and require less maintenance than someone's typical front or back yard. At FirstFruits Landscaping, we...
Best Curb Appeal Options for Home Sellers
Best Curb Appeal Options for Home Sellers - Buying a house is an exciting season, whether for first-time homebuyers, investors, vacationers, or those simply looking to upgrade or downsize. There are a lot of homes hitting the market right now and curb appeal is the...
How to Have the Best Grass in the Neighborhood
There are so many beautiful green spaces in southern Maryland and who says that you can’t have one of your own? There’s no need to hire professional help to have the best-looking yard on the block. With a little bit of routine maintenance, your lawn could look as...
Best Maintenance Tasks for March
Well, here we are 3 March and we're actually seeing a little bit of warmer days. Sure, it's still rainy, cloudy, and dreary, but that's the Pacific Northwest for you. However, you still might be thinking a little bit about landscaping, getting your yard cleaned up,...
What is the Best Kind of Landscape Paving?
Landscape paving can add elegance, texture, and structure to a garden or yard, but not every type of paver is appropriate for every climate. The wrong paver in a cold climate can spall, which means bits or pieces of the paver fall away because of the freeze-thaw...
What to Look for in a Well-Built Retaining Wall
If your property has any type of elevation change, your landscape may benefit from a retaining wall. It’s important to protect your land from soil erosion, which can result in loss of topsoil, drainage problems and possible structural stability issues. Or maybe you’re...
Simple Ways to Boost Your Commercial Landscape
Commercial landscape is often full of concrete, and thus dull colors which can make your business look less approachable and far less appealing to potential clients. It is especially important to have great curb appeal within your commercial landscape when you live in...
3 Recommendations to Replace Yellow Archangel Ground Cover
Ground cover is a great alternative for many people who prefer a lower maintenance lawn, or even a lawn that has more of an evergreen hue and the occasional colors of flowering. While many variations of ground cover will still require some maintenance, such as edging,...
What Does it Mean to Blowout Your Irrigation?
What Does it Mean to Blowout Your Irrigation? Your sprinkler system is a worthwhile investment that needs adequate care and maintenance. As the freezing winter season approaches, it’s critical to put your sprinklers to bed. Doing so prevents water freezing inside the...
Dangers of Snow and Ice to Your Property
As I sit here writing this, there is still quite a bit of snow and ice on the ground. Typically, in the Pacific Northwest, we might get a day or two of snow somewhere within the winter months but any longer than that and it's quite rare. So, for temperatures to be...
Tips for Managing Weeds in Landscape Beds
While we all love the beauty of lush landscape, there’s a downside to the time entailed in managing weeds. Here are some pro tips to reduce, manage and eliminate this tedious time waster. Mulching Not only does mulch assist in keeping moisture in the ground to help...
What Can Kill Trees in the Pacific Northwest?
What Can Kill Trees in the Pacific Northwest? Home and business owners love sprucing up their landscape by adding new shrubs and trees, but it doesn’t always end in a beautiful sight. Sometimes a tree just doesn’t seem to be doing well and it can be hard to determine...
Is My Tree Dying?
Is My Tree Dying? When you have a tree that isn’t doing well, it is normal to want to wait to remove it until you know whether it’s dead or could possibly pull through. Here are some tips to determine whether a tree could recover or if it’s time to say goodbye to your...