Greenscape Design Blog

Florida has incredibly steady weather year-round, making it the perfect place for nature-enthusiasts and flower planting. Due to Florida’s mild weather, many homeowners and businesses choose to sprinkle their landscape with vivid pops of color with annual flowers. Planting annual flowers around your landscape provides many benefits, like attracting helpful garden pollinators and increasing your home's curb appeal. 

If you’re looking to add some color to your home and surrounding landscape, then annual flowers are a great choice. Here are some popular annual flowers for homes in Palm Beach, FL, and some of the benefits they provide for your landscape.

What Are Annual Flowers & How Do They Benefit My Home?

Annuals are flowers whose life cycle only lasts one growing season or one year. During this year, they sprout, bloom, produce seeds, and then die. Because of this, they require replanting each year. Annuals can be planted anytime and easily swapped out for new ones each year.

Planting annual flowers around your home provides many benefits. Annuals bring beauty and vibrancy to a well-landscaped property, and because they bloom...

Lawn care is very important for any homeowner’s yard. Regular mowing, fertilization, and proper irrigation are the most common types of maintenance we think of when we talk about lawn care, however, there are several other services that are just as important to your lawn’s health. One of the most important lawn care services you can provide your lawn is regular weed control.

Without weed control, weeds suffocate your grass and slowly kill it, reversing all your hard work. Weeds wreak havoc on your lawn and diminish your home’s curb appeal and value. If you live in Palm Beach, Jupiter, Manalapan, and the surrounding areas, here are some ways regular weed control treatments benefit your lawn.

Weed Control Preserves Your Lawn’s Health

Weed control is absolutely essential to your lawn’s health. Without it, weeds quickly spread throughout your lawn and choke your grass by depriving it of much-needed space, nutrients, water, and light. Weeds compete with your grass, and because they grow remarkably fast, they often quickly absorb nutrients before your grass has time to soak them up. This leads to an imbalance of nutrients...