Buck and Sons Landscape Blog

Quality Landscape Reflects Pride Inside Home & Office

First impressions of you or your business begins before anyone sets one foot inside of your door. The quality of your landscape, or lack thereof, will set the tone and opinion of you based upon outside appearances. This is simply human nature. If your home or office appears neat and well maintained, visitors will make an initial assessment that you are a person that takes pride in his or her home or business. Personal opinions might even translate into that you are a successful person and hard-working from this first outdoor impression. Studies have shown that morale increases in office environments where the ...

Save Green with a Well Planned Landscape

On a cold winter day, nothing feels better than coming home to a toasty warm house. Who doesn’t enjoy that peaceful feeling as you sit down to watch the snow fall outside your window from the comfort of a reclining chair in a pleasant 70 degree environment? Life is good…then the utility bills arrive! With the recent cold snap, you have no doubt noticed a spike in your gas and/or electric bills. You probably also notice the same thing when that dread piece of mail arrives in July and August! You may be willing to move the thermostat a degree ...

Nip Winter Blues in the “Bud”

Rather than sit inside all day, we make productive use of this time with a little winter dormant pruning. With the foliage off of deciduous trees and shrubs, pruning becomes a much quicker and easier process. At no other time of the year is it as easy to see problem branches that are dead, rubbing, crossing or growing inward. Branches that are infringing upon a structure or neighboring tree or shrub should be judiciously pruned so not to adversely affect the overall shape and aesthetic value of the plant. Sometimes, however, removal of a tree or shrub may be the ...