Spring Fling Thank You!

Join us TONIGHT!

We are very busy here getting ready for the spring fling tonight!  If you aren't already planning to, please stop by even if it is just for a little bit - we would love to see you.  We are having a pizza party and it is family friendly so feel free to bring the whole gang. 

The party starts at 5 and it is located at our design center at 26421 IH 10 West!  If you have any questions or if you need directions, please call us at 210-657-7737

Drought Educational Seminars

Preferred Landscape and Lighting puts on educational seminars or ‘lunch and learns’ for corporations to explain landscape design, irrigation, tree care, and subjects such as dealing with a drought.  We have a professional one hour seminar presented by Certified Arborists, Licensed Irrigators and professional landscape designers. Firms that we have presented to include NuStar, Pape Dawson, Cox and Smith, Padgett Strateman, Catto and Catto, DHR Architecture and Spectrum Property Management.  If your firm would be interested in one of our free seminars, let us know.  We act as subject matter experts and do not present a one hour commercial about our firm. 

Join us a week from today!

Drought Action Plan

As mentioned last week, San Antonio is already in Stage 2 water restrictions and it is forecasted that we will go to Stage 3 this summer.  The biggest change with stage 3 is that customers are only allowed to use spray irrigation every other week.  This will make it extremely difficult to keep your landscape healthy this summer.  So what can you do?  Besides the drip irrigation we have been discussing, here are some simple things you can do to give your landscape a fighting chance this summer.

 

There are several things you can do to get your yard ready for the drought:   

1.  Mulch your planting beds

2.  Protect new trees and plants from wildlife

3.  Already weakened trees need pruning to remove dead limbs as we reenter a drought season

4.  Trees stressed by the drought are susceptible to many different diseases including Oak Wilt and Hypoxylon Cankor.  Be sure to supplement water your trees once a week using drip irrigation in the root zone.  

5.  When replacing turf areas and plants, ensure 6" enriched topsoil is installed and use plants native to our area.