A good landscaper is something to be treasured. They are able to take care of your yard with expertise, precision, and care. Unfortunately, there are many landscapers out there that don’t quite have the know-how to properly care for your yard or specific trees in your landscape. Our Moon Valley Nurseries’ pros often come across many yards that have fallen victim to improper maintenance caused by landscapers who maybe didn’t have the care or knowledge to keep the landscape looking great. Here are the 5 common mistakes we see many landscapers making in yards across the Southwest.
If you or your landscaper are unsure when the best time to cut back your trees and plants is, or how to properly perform the necessary cuts, check out our article on trimming and pruning your trees and plants here!
On the other hand, if done incorrectly, fertilizing can either be ineffective or even detrimental to the trees and plants in your yard. Improper fertilizing can happen in the form of poor timing, wrong ratios for the plant material, a lack of necessary supplemental nutrients, or over-fertilization. To read up on the correct way to fertilize, read our article on the best fertilizers and nutrients for your yard.
It requires much less time and effort to grow these non-native varieties in other more eastern states. Unfortunately, many nationwide garden centers stock trees and plants that are grown in more tropical climates to speed up production. This is all well and fine if you are going to be planting these varieties in tropical states or similar zones, but when these non-acclimated trees and plants are brought into our climate, they struggle to survive. Selecting plant material that has been grown and acclimated in our area is the key to a thriving landscape, even with varieties that are not native to our region!
To learn more about the benefits of growing trees and plants in the climate they will be planted in, and how this makes them superior, read about Moon Valley Nurseries’ growing practices and how we grow the best trees on Earth!
If the stakes remain attached for too long the tree’s trunk will begin to grow around the wires that attach the stakes to the tree, eventually engulfing them. This can cause unhealthy growth, decayed portions of the canopy, or even lead to the tree’s death. You can read more on taking care of your trees and plants by checking out our care guides here!
We see issues like this very often, not just with shade tree placement but also with privacy hedges planted too far apart and never creating a thick privacy screen, with plants that require partial shade being planted in full sun, or with trees that will become too big for a smaller space, amongst many other issues. Our professional landscape designers are experienced in meeting your landscape goals with tree and plant varieties that compliment your favorite design style, all while avoiding these common mistakes. For more information on how our landscape designers can help you, read our article here!