Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, BRAD SLADE. He is an expert on artificial grass, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Fake Grass
By Brad Slade

The history of artificial or fake grass is to say the least an interesting one and arose out of the social desire to in-effect ward off what could be seen, as far back as the 1950s, as an increasingly unhealthy tendency by youngsters not to exercise.

History has it that birth of synthetic grass began through attempts by scientists trying to develop a type of grass that would not only allow children and adolescents to play on regardless of the weather condition but encouraged them to do so, in other words, a surface that they enjoyed using or a user friendly surface. Hence the advent of fake or artificial grass.

The result was one of the early prototypes of what we now know to be fake or artificial grass. The earlier types were not only hard under foot and made for impracticality especially where sports and children were concerned given the tendencies to fall but were very unpopular. Read the rest of this entry »

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Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, JODY HUDSON. He is an expert on landscaping, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Landscaping Adds Great Value to Real Estate And Helps You Sell
By Mr Jody Hudson

Over the years several of our clients have had professional landscaping done and it’s amazing to me how little landscaping, can be done for $5-10,000, by a professional Landscaper, and how little value it can add to your home.

Small shrubs, trees, and plantings add almost nothing, or actually nothing at all, to your home value on the open market — until they are several years older! There is another way! Read the rest of this entry »

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You are no doubt familiar with the saying, “Count the cost”, meaning that you should realize what it’s going to cost you to get where you want to go. If you are considering laying a sod lawn yourself, then absolutely “count the cost”. Just be prepared for hard physical labor, and a pretty big chunk out of your bank account.

But if you can weather the “cost”, then this is the route for you. The key to the entire process is planning ahead…

Start planning…

Select a 2-week period of time in which to install your sod lawn. Check long-range weather forecasts… and keep checking them. If you plan to hire laborers or recruit some friends, contact them to verify that they will be available throughout these two weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

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There is nothing quite so delicious as cool, green grass under bare feet. Can you design a lawn so this is no longer just a remembered sensation?

Absolutely! Just follow these 4 easy steps…

Step 1: Design your lawn garden…

First of all, thinking “lawn garden” instead of just “lawn” will help you come up with the right design. It’s also much easier to accomplish this before putting the lawn in.

But it’s not impossible to get it right, even after the fact. Executing your design will just take a bit more effort.

Decide how many flower beds you want, where to plant trees and shrubs, whether you want a pond, where the sidewalks and other paths will be, whether to include a fence, a trellis, or even a bridge… Read the rest of this entry »

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