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    • Design for Residential Properties
      • Welcoming front yard designs
      • Naturescape Your Yard
      • Permaculture
      • Evergreen Screens
      • Yard to Table
      • Hardscape Design
      • Made in the Shade
      • Perennial border pizzaz
      • Seasonal displays
      • Container magic
      • Rain gardens
    • Fine garden maintenance services
      • Pruning
      • Invasives removal
      • Dividing and transplanting
      • Weeding
      • Deadheading and staking
      • Edging and mulching
      • Leaf Shredding
      • Brush chipping
      • Compost bin building & tending
    • Landscape installation services
      • Landscape planting
      • Hardscape installation
      • Purchasing and delivery
    • Plant Health Care Services
      • Soil sampling and amending
      • Soil and plant biology enrichment program
      • Liquid biological amendments
      • Soil remediation programs
      • Scouting for pests and diseases
      • Organic disease and insect-control strategies
      • Special care of roses
      • Winter protection program
      • Tick & mosquito control
      • Deer browse protection
      • Emergency Watering Service
      • Air spade service
    • Consultation Services
      • Property Evaluation
      • Site-Specific Plans
      • Garden Coaching
      • Recommendations for Complementary Services
      • Curb-appeal audits
      • Your complimentary 15-minute phone consultation
    • Historic landscape preservation
      • Archival research and documentation
      • Choosing plants appropriate for the period of the house
      • Preserving mature landscape plantings
      • Lowthorpe research
    • Products
      • Organically grown seedlings
      • Premium Ground Cover from Lucerne Farms
      • Rain Barrels
      • Perennials & Shrubs
      • Cedar Raised Beds
      • Greenhouses
  • Portfolio
    • Landscaping a new home
    • Improving a retaining wall
    • Improvements for a young family
  • About Us
    • We’re Hiring
    • Priscilla Hutt Williams, President and Founder
    • Reese Crotteau, Plant Health Care Manager
    • Kimberly Kuliesis Operations Manager
    • Resources
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Service Areas
    • Contact Us

Daily Archives: December 28, 2016

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Use of Safe Ice Melt Products Encouraged

Going along with our organic land care philosophy, we recommend use of an ice melt that does not contain Sodium chloride. This material can cause mortar used in walkways to degrade over time and provides toxic levels of salt to the plants in adjacent garden beds. Furthermore, those of us with dogs and cats need…

December 28, 2016PetsBy Bernadette Giblin
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