As a Morris County, NJ, area commercial property manager, you have a lot on your plate every day but how gorgeous the landscape is should not be a task that needs attention. Asking the right questions of a commercial landscaping company can give the peace of mind that a property will be beautiful throughout the year.
We hire only highly qualified, skilled workers who share our priority for the environment and satisfying customers. We strive to exceed expectations and provide maximum value on every project. Our goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of our clients, our employees, our community and the environment.
It is no small decision to invest in a new patio for your Madison and Mendham, NJ, landscape and this is why you want to end up with something spectacular to add to your outdoor space. These patio paver ideas can spark your creativity as you discuss options with a landscape professional.
We hire only highly qualified, skilled workers who share our priority for the environment and satisfying customers. We strive to exceed expectations and provide maximum value on every project. Our goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of our clients, our employees, our community and the environment.
With the spring weather tempting you to get out and start planting, it's a good idea to invest a little time getting your yard ready for the season. Here are a few tips on what you can do now to prepare your yard for spring.
Before you start to do any yard work, it's a good idea to take a walk through your yard to survey any damage that has occurred over the winter. Look for any hanging branches or split limbs and cut off anything that is broken. Cut out any dead wood on your deciduous shrubs also.
Define the edge around your garden beds using a garden edger. As you work your way around, kick any of the edging into the bed so it can be raked off after.
Cut down any perennial foliage remaining from last year and use a steel rake to clean the beds out. Remove all of the edging along with any leaves and branches.
Test your soil’s ph by taking samples from several places throughout your yard and adjust the soil’s ph accordingly. In our area we typically find the soil’s ph to be too low (acidic), requiring an application of lime.
We hire only highly qualified, skilled workers who share our priority for the environment and satisfying customers. We strive to exceed expectations and provide maximum value on every project. Our goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of our clients, our employees, our community and the environment.
For more than half of his waking hours, landscape designer Brian Shernce is on the road or at a construction site. He recently started using a Surface Pro 4 so that he could handle the full gamut of his office work even while on the go.
“Whereas before if I needed to do any real computing work, I’d wait to get back to my desk – which often caused the work to snowball – now I can work from anywhere.” The “now” is after purchasing a Surface Pro 4.
Brian got his Surface after determining that his iPad Pro simply couldn’t provide the depth and breadth of functionality he needed. An “Apple guy” with a small collection of Macs and iPads, Brian was hopeful he could find a way to use an iPad Pro for his work. He needed a device that could handle some “heavy lifting” tasks like landscape design plans that require a lot of computing power, and he found the iPad was not well suited for that intensity. Even after doing online research, tutorials and a one-on-one training in the hopes that he could run his business on an iPad Pro, the end result was a trip to Microsoft Store to buy a Surface.
“I’m amazed at its functionality, and I’m using it more and more because it’s replacing both my previous tablet and my MacBook,” Brian says of his Pro 4.
The real sell for him came when he took the device to the office for the first time. “I was trying to land a very large job and, after meeting with the landscape architect, he emailed an AutoCAD plan for my team to review. He wanted our proposal for the job and was looking for input on a lot of items – and of course it was time sensitive. Normally we would have printed the large plan, had our production manager mark it up on paper, and then photograph or scan it back into a computer to begin the line-item budgeting. Instead, we used the Surface for the whole process; from the Drawboard markup to budgeting for the estimate. We turned the plan around really quickly and got the job!”
Brian chose his Pro 4 specifically because of its portability. He likes that he’s able to use the device as a tablet for annotations – or for non-work things like reading the news and catching up on sports – but then also attach the keyboard for more serious tasks.
“I really do love this device,” he tells me, the smile in his voice. “I’m using it like crazy.”
We hire only highly qualified, skilled workers who share our priority for the environment and satisfying customers. We strive to exceed expectations and provide maximum value on every project. Our goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of our clients, our employees, our community and the environment.
