Fresh updates through lawn care service and strategic outdoor lighting can be what your landscape needs this summer to make your Southington, CT, home look more impressive and encourage you to host an outdoor event. Landscape lighting can help ensure that you and your guests are able to enjoy your yard day or night.
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Lawn Care
While mowing is an essential part of lawn care service, it is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. Mowing properly can be a science—the pros will ensure that your lawn is being mowed by sharp blades to prevent tearing and also help keep your lawn at an ideal length to retain moisture and stay green even during bouts of hot temperatures. To keep your lawn healthy, you’ll need other types of lawn care services. Fertilizing is an important part of lawn care and ensures that your lawn is given the necessary nutrients to grow. The lawn care service will determine the right type of fertilizer and right amount of fertilizer, so that there is no risk of burning or other lawn damage. Aeration is another key component of a healthy lawn. By creating small holes throughout your lawn, the lawn care service will ensure that enough light, water, and air get to the root system to help establish deeper growth.
A lawn care service can also support your garden care. It can be challenging to know what plants will grow best in your soil and went to plant them. You can take much of the guesswork out of gardening by utilizing lawn care pros to plant seasonal flowers and apply proper care to them. From mulching and fertilizing to weeding, they can help keep your garden area looking like it belongs on a magazine cover.
Don’t forget about tree and shrub care, too! A lawn care service can prune and shape your shrubs to keep them healthy and prevent overgrowth. Experts can also help identify pests or diseases that may be taking a toll on your greenery.
Landscape Lighting
Now that a lawn care service has helped transform your outdoor space into a showstopper, you may want to consider a way to highlight your space regardless of the time of day. Landscape lighting can not only provide additional illumination for safety but can spotlight your favorite landscape elements. Adding landscape lighting along pathways can help guide guests safely from one place to another while also providing illumination to the surrounding lawn area.
You can turn your garden area into a museum-like gallery by including outdoor lighting in and around garden areas. This extra light can allow you and your guests to continue enjoying the beauty of blooming flowers during evening gatherings. Even more than just ambient lighting, landscape lighting can be functional. Adding outdoor lighting around an outdoor fireplace, a pergola, and water features can help provide adequate lighting for tasks, like cooking or getting a fire started.
There are different types of outdoor lighting you will want to consider based on your needs. Recessed ground lighting, or well lighting, offers the benefit of concealed fixtures and a welcoming ambiance for a walkway or around a patio. Above-ground landscape lighting can be more noticeable but can come in fun shapes and styles that help shape the character of your outdoor space.
About the Author
Birch Hill Landscape & Design is a full-service, woman-owned, family-run design/build contractor that has been serving residential and commercial customers in the Central Connecticut area for over 30 years. When you see our work vehicles, you know that another satisfied customer is benefiting from our experience, passion, and commitment to quality!
