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A PhD ecologist explains why mulching is the smartest investment for your Florida landscape. Learn 5 key ways it protects plants from heat, cuts your water bill, stops weeds, and boosts your property value.

Struggling with a sun-baked, weed-filled Jacksonville yard? Discover how professional mulching is the key to conserving water, suppressing weeds, protecting your plants from the heat, and giving your landscape a polished, healthy look that thrives.

You hired them to cut the grass, but their string trimmers and mowers are slowly killing your most valuable landscape asset. Here's the hidden damage to look for at the base of your trees, and the one simple fix.

Every Jacksonville homeowner knows the story. You go to a big-box store in spring, buy a row of beautiful, flowering shrubs, and plant them perfectly. They look fantastic for a month. Then, the real Florida summer arrives. By August, those vibrant plants are a collection of scorched leaves, black-spotted stems, and brittle branches. It’s a frustrating and expensive cycle—a shrub graveyard in your own front yard. The problem isn't your green thumb. The problem is that you were

Is your landscaper building 'mulch volcanoes'? This common Jacksonville mistake is slowly killing your trees. Learn the right way to mulch and protect your landscape investment.

You bought a beautiful new plant, put it in our native 'sugar sand,' and watched it die. You're not a bad gardener—your soil is. Here's the truth about our Jacksonville soil and the one thing you must do to fix it.

It's 'Crepe Murder' season in Jacksonville. That familiar 'hack-job' pruning isn't just ugly—it's actively harming your trees. Learn why this common mistake is so damaging and what the right way to prune your landscape really is.

Adding a new tree to your backyard is one of the best long-term investments you can make in your property. It provides shade, beauty, and value. But here in Northeast Florida, a tree's success isn't just a matter of "digging a hole and dropping it in." From a first-principles perspective, the goal isn't just to plant  a tree; it's to create an environment where its root system can successfully establish and spread.  A tree's entire life and health depend on its ability to gro

Ever look at a garden here in sunny Florida and feel like it's just... missing  something? The palms might be healthy and the St. Augustine lawn mowed, but it doesn't have that clean, polished feel. In our sandy soil, 'bare' quickly looks 'barren,' and the intense sun seems to encourage weeds more than our flowers. That missing element—the one that makes a landscape look truly finished and 'put-together'—is mulch. Here in the Jacksonville area, mulch is far more than just a l