What makes a garden pop are the beautiful and luscious botanics that only the tropics can grow, and yet — against all advice — people still try to grow Birds of Paradise or Passion Flower in dry, arid climates! So why grow plants native to Walpole?

At Acres of Green, we’re well acquainted with the plants native to our area and have been providing emerald green lawns and beautiful landscaping for more than 20 years. Native plants are important to implement in your garden design, so join us in today’s post about why native plants matter.

You may have heard about feng shui design for your home to cultivate balance between the different spaces, but did you know the principles of feng shui aren’t reserved solely for the home? The practice of feng shui can be used in your outdoor landscaping as well!

Finding landscapers in Walpole can seem tough because our region boasts some of the most beautiful native plants and botanics, and not just anyone can care for them! At Acres of Green, turn to us for our landscaping knowledge and our artistry to procure a lush, green lawn! Follow along in today’s post as we delve into feng shui for your garden.

If your lawn is looking a little drab and dull this summer it could be because you’re making a small, yet costly mistake! A glowing, green lawn is every homeowner’s hope, so ensure you’re not making one of them!

At Acres of Green, we’re your local landscaping company in the Walpole area, and we want to lend a hand to all of your lawn care and landscaping needs. Having a beautiful lawn is a partnership — we care for it with our mowing, edging, and fertilization services, while you tend to it when we’re not! To maintain a luscious lawn this summer, follow along in today’s post and make sure you’re not making any costly lawn care mistakes.

Even with the humidity in the East Coast, the rising temperatures can quickly dry out a once beautiful, pristine green lawn! When the temperatures climb toward double digits it most likely means your lawn will require additional watering, so it’s important to know when the optimal times are and what measures to take so your grass doesn’t die.

Creating an outdoor sanctuary in the Walpole area that is abundant in local Massachusetts greenery with native and heirloom fruits and vegetables, ushers in the spring and summer gardening season. Creating a garden that flourishes and produces an abundant yield takes a good amount of sweat equity, good weather, and conversing with mother nature! Walpole is the perfect place to start a garden because our soil is rich and the humid climate is ideal, but it can take a little creativity to construct the perfect adaptive garden.

At Acres of Green, crafting a garden to fit your tastes and aesthetics is a part of our garden design and garden services, and your outdoor space should be a refuge and not a source of frustration because you can’t freely move about and tend to your plants. We’re here to help give you the garden of your dreams! Follow along as we touch on adaptive gardening that’s inclusive for everyone!

Alright Walpole, we did it, we survived the winter — and hopefully, your lawn did too! We’re seeing an upward trend in temperatures as we’re rolling through spring and preparing for summer. If your lawn and landscaping are looking a little lackluster, there is still time to beautify it and hire lawn care services in Walpole.

If you’re in need of local lawn care services to kick your summer off right, Acres of Green provides full-service landscaping and lawn care maintenance. Follow along with today’s post and find out the best tips when choosing a lawn care company.

Rejoice! You can now search “local landscaping companies near me” with a full and happy heart knowing it’s spring and your gardening work can commence! If you have a large property in the Walpole area and need some extra hands, Acres of Green supports you in all of your yard endeavors, including lawn care services and garden design.

In our last blog, we touched on how landscaping helps you accomplish your New Year’s resolution goal in fitness. Did you also know that through landscaping — gardening specifically — you can support your nutritional health and the environment at the same time? You can, and at Acres of Green we can make it look beautiful through our landscaping services and our garden services!

Around this time of year — the holidays — finding truly unique gifts can be hard. It’s easy to sit back at let online retailers tell you what you should be getting your loved one, but unplug a little and ponder what would make someone’s day-to-day duties a little less hectic. What is something we all can agree is a chore? Yard work! This year is the perfect year to contact your local landscaper and give the gift of landscaping.

Oftentimes when a landscape company is designing for properties, the only seasons being accounted for are spring and summer. It’s simple to focus on the warm, abundant seasons, but not creating a design that incorporates winter as well, is, frosty. A winter maintenance design plan is crucial for saving time and money in the colder months, and you also take advantage of beautiful landscaping all year round.

Here on the East Coast, we definitely see winter weather! We have a mix of snow and ice with everything nice. People tend to believe spring and summer are the only times to be outdoors beautifying the yard, but that is absolute nonsense! Put on your “garden designer” hat year round, and turn your yard into a winter wonderland that everyone will fall in love with, after all, tis’ the season!

Transitioning into the autumnal season means as one cycle is ending, another is beginning. As nature is preparing for hibernation, trees are turning vibrant colors and finally shedding their leaves, and plants and flowers are turning inwards as their petals and greens turn brown and drop. This is now the perfect time to begin preparing for next spring’s reanimation with these simple lawn care services! As cooler temperatures bring aboveground growth to a halt, damp soils encourage strong, underground root development. Leaves and branches break and drop, and cover the plants for protection over the fall and winter seasons.

Below are some ideas and tips to help get your fall cleanup on its way to the next, abundant spring season!

This is the second article in our two-part series on fall gardening and landscaping in New England. In our last article, we covered the do’s and don’ts of fall planting, including what trees you should consider planting in fall, and how to help them thrive. In this installment, we’re going to focus on specific perennials that you can plant in fall. They are some of the hardiest varieties of plants anywhere and thrive in all kinds of environments. And, you just might be surprised by a few.

We’re getting pretty close to winter here in Massachusetts, but we’ve still got some time left for landscaping and gardening. We can even do some planting for next spring if we get going pretty quickly. This two-part article includes tips to help you plan your fall gardening and landscaping activities. And, if this all seems a bit overwhelming, remember that you can always call on Acres of Green Landscaping Services to help out. We’re ready with advice and can do all the hard work too!

Fall officially begins in late September, so you can start planting around that time and keep planting through mid October or early November. Here are the do’s and don’ts of Fall planting.

Having a beautiful summertime lawn requires year-long effort. It is a lot of work, which is why so many of our clients are relieved that they can depend on Acres of Green to do the heavy lifting. It is easy to let your lawn care drop to the bottom of your to-do list. So, why not just let us take it off your list?

There are some basics that every lawn needs in order to get healthy and stay healthy. If you don’t start with a solid foundation, every year is going to bring the renewed struggle to keep your yard looking great.

In addition to being beautiful, landscaping with native plants has a lot of other benefits for you and the environment.

Here are ten tips from the lawn care pros at Acres of Green. Enjoy!

At Acres of Green Landscaping, we love helping our clients design and build landscapes that beautify their home and provide unique benefits. One of our favorite things to do is to create beautiful landscapes for nature lovers.