Preparing a place for grandkids, as well as your own kids, can provide some of the happiest times in your life, and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Using the experience and expertise of professionals like those found at Minneapolis’ Architectural Landscape Design will help give you some ideas about how you can improve your family gatherings and create memories for the next generation.
When you are in the building and landscaping business like we are, you learn very quickly that excavating the property and securing the foundation is one of the most important jobs there is.
Come and talk to us about your landscaping dreams at the Apple Valley Home & Garden Show! It’s easy to attend because there is FREE parking and admission. In addition, there are things for children to do as they are featuring Minnesota Zoo animals and free children’s arts and crafts. ALD is a featured landscape design exhibitor at the show that covers the latest in home, garden, landscaping, remodeling and much more! It’s a great time to plan any landscaping or garden project you have in mind. We are a multi-speciality landscape company. Our licensed and educated landscape designers and
You can reduce your garden’s vulnerability to deer by putting up some natural and physical barriers in your yard. It’s generally agreed upon that deer are beautiful when they are viewed from afar, and hopefully that means in someone else’s yard. So how can you keep them at bay? Keeping them out of your yard in the first place is one of the key points. The longer they have been visiting and munching on your shrubs and plantings the harder it is to dissuade them. Our landscape designers and architects can help you design and implement a plan including plantings
Exactly. What bees? Few have noticed but there is a fairly serious shortage of honey bees in both the United States and Europe, like we have never seen before. With the advanced use of pesticides, and sprawling urban development, people are killing them off faster than they can repopulate themselves. This condition has reached such epic proportion that the horticultural industry has labeled it Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). It seemed to start in the winter of 2006, when bee keepers reported seeing abnormally high losses in honey production. Penn State’s Entomology Department has been studying the issue ever since. There
There are many advantages to owning an older piece of landscape. Trees grown years ago grew up in the wild, subjected to the elements, making them much stronger on a cellular level. New homes rarely have great old trees around them, lending that ambiance of strength and stability. Trees take time to grow, a long time to mature and turn an ordinary house into a home. If you are fortunate enough to have mature landscapes, why not capitalize on them? By carving out distinct garden areas and outdoor spaces, with a welcome patio under a grand old tree, you can easily
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