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Top 5 Garden Trends for 2021
2021 has been a record year for home gardeners. There are more people gardening this year than ever before for a variety of reasons: the pandemic has created a fleet of remote workers who are finding more time to get out in their backyards and tend to gardens, often for the first time ever. These gardeners are mostly looking to grow their own food and become more self-sustainable.
Plowing Solutions: We’ve got you covered!
Snow removal in the summertime should most definitely be on your mind!
Perennial Maintenance: How to Divide Plants
Although perennials are famously low maintenance, there are some varieties that need to be divided every few years to maintain healthy roots and foliage. Bonus: that favorite daylily you planted a few years ago will now be three! Dividing plants is a fairly easy and straight-forward garden chore that can be done in the spring […]
Community Outreach… Why We Like To Give Back!
Giving back to the community is so important for a number of reasons! It gives you a sense of purpose, it helps you to gain new perspectives, and it allows you to share your expertise in a way that helps others. Every year here at di Stefano Landscaping, since we opened our doors for business […]
Trends
Creating A Truly “Low Maintenance” Landscape
Low maintenance gardens have become a big trend in the landscape industry in the past few years as gardeners have had to limit the amount of water, time, and effort they’ve put into their landscapes. We’ll talk about some of our favorite ways to create a truly low maintenance landscape and how it can not […]
Gardening
Why do you need a landscape design?
I’ve been a landscape designer for over a decade now and yet I still have some friends and extended family that have no idea what I actually do. They always just assume that I only do plant layout for foundation beds or small residential gardens. So when I show them photos of my projects that […]
Giant Hogweed
With the glorious Vermont Summer weather we have been having, everyone seems to be out and about enjoying both their residential landscapes and our natural surroundings. At our weekly safety meeting one of the crew members mentioned that everyone needed to be careful of Wild Parsnip while they are installing and maintaining our landscapes. If […]
Vermont Arbor Day
Today is Vermont Arbor Day! It’s a splendid holiday that helps spread the need for conservation each year. All of us here at di Stefano Landscaping strive to create beautiful landscapes not only here in Vermont, but in parts of New Hampshire and into the Adirondacks of NY as well. We each do our part here, […]
Vermont’s Poor Man’s Fertilizer
As I was walking my dog Tucker last night through some freshly fallen snow, these thoughts popped into my head. Why do some older Vermonters call the snow “Poor man’s fertilizer”? And is the snow beneficial to the landscapes we install here at di Stefano Landscaping, as well as farmer’s crops? Didn’t read about this in […]
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