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March 1, 2018
Landshapes Landscape Designer Wins 2017 Green Work...
Landscape Designer Caroline Dudek won this years Honor Award for a Burlington hillside retreat. This back yard had limited usable space and the steep slope ended close to the existing deck. Once an eye soar the hillside swale is now a design feature and is functional at channeling water to a french drain at the...
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November 18, 2016
Thanks For Making Us People’s Choice!
Thank you to everyone who voted for us! We are excited to announce we won the People’s Choice award for the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Northern Vermont’s contest! We are beyond appreciative that we have so many awesome clients, colleagues and friends!...
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January 11, 2016
What Bio Stimulants Do for Plants
Improving the efficiency of the plant’s metabolism to induce yield increases and enhanced crop quality; Increasing plant tolerance to and recovery from abiotic stresses; Facilitating nutrient assimilation, translocation and use; Enhancing quality attributes of produce, including sugar content, color, fruit seeding, etc; Rendering water use more efficient; Enhancing soil fertility, particularly by fostering the development...
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December 22, 2015
Christmas Decor
The interior and exterior of the Hilton In Burlington was decorated with delightful Christmas displays. We used 15 Live 5 foot Blue Spruces, 500 Poinsettias, Hundreds of pounds of Cut Balsam Greens , hundreds of Red Twig Dogwood and Curly Willow to create these spectacular Christmas displays. It took a team of 7 people 5...
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December 9, 2015
Proper Horticultural Practices / Spraying Antidesi...
Landshapes always practices proper Horticultural Practices when planting & maintaining all of its tree and plant material. Prior to winter hitting we spray all of our needled and broad leaf evergreen we planted with a Powerful Antidesicant. This coats the needles and leaves with a waxy substance for up to 6 months protecting them from winter...
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March 30, 2015
Preparing Irregular Blue Stone
Landshapes employees get a jump on the season. They are preparing Irregular Blue Stone Flagging for spring projects by taking off weak and or the thin edges of the Blue Stone making them more uniform in thickness. They then will champer all edges with a masonry hammer for a more natural look. This eliminates one...
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March 25, 2015
Planting Soil Preperation
Landshapes gets a jump on the season preparing thousands of yards of soils for the spring Landscape Planting Season. All of our soils are custom mixed at our facilities in Richmond Vermont. Carefully selected amounts of Silt, Sand, and Compost are incorporated and run through a screener to blend and mix the Planting Soils thoroughly. ...
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February 13, 2015
Landscape ROI As High As 150%
A study by RealEstate. com suggests that landscaping and hardscaping can deliver a return on investment as high as 150 percent-an ROI that puts it ahead of popular home improvement projects like kitchen or bathroom updates. “When I bring a buyer to a home that features state-of-the-art landscaping and elements like a fire pit and...
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February 12, 2015
Maintenance Free Pools And Spas
The Science behind Pool and Spa Equipment has come a long way in the past 15 Years. We know have the ability to install maintenance free Pools and Spas with the new high tech equipment that is available on the market today. IntelliChlor® Salt Chlorine Generator uses common table salt to produce all the chlorine a...
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February 6, 2015
Landshapes’ Vermont Landscape Designer Wins ...
Landshapes’ Vermont Landscape Designer, Caroline Dudek won this years Honor Award for Special Projects at the Green Works – Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association Annual Conference. Caroline won the Landscape Industry Award for a Vermont Natural Swimming Pond that she Designed and Landshapes Installed. This Vermont Natural Swimming Pond consisted of a Natural Bog Filtration...
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January 21, 2015
Landshapes New Houzz Profile
Check out our new Houzz profile where you can see more of our award winning Vermont Landscape Designs and completed projects. Houzz allows you to save our Vermont Landscape project pictures to your idea book, so you can start coming up with ideas for spring landscape projects! https://houzz.com/pro/landshapesvt...
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January 8, 2015
Mycorrhizal Fungi, Do I need them?
Most people do not understand how profoundly important it is to use Mycorrhizal Fungi when planting trees, shrubs, and lawns. If I ask most people what the main function of roots are they will answer….. to anchor the tree or plant in the ground and to take up water and nutrients. Well, only one of...
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