Tulsa Hardscapes Like Walkways and Paths Bring Character to Your Landscape

We love bringing even more beauty and charm to your outdoor space. Walkways and paths are great for creating this kind of distinctive and yet simple character. They can liven up just about any landscape. Walkways and paths provide the small details that highlight the beauty of your Tulsa outdoor space.

These Tulsa hardscapes provide a great way to separate various areas of your garden, or they can serve to guide guests in exploring the landscape. Lead guests through a garden gate with a meandering stone pathway or show the way on a brick trail to the backyard outdoor kitchen or a quiet reading place. The range of ideas for walkways and paths are only limited by the imagination.

Walkways provide a cost-effective method of updating the look and feel of your landscape. A simple stone path adds a sophisticated, classic tone to your landscape. Paths can act as borders or edging to a flowerbed or garden trail. You can also leave space between the stones allowing greenery to grow in between for a more garden-like feel.

To add an artistic style and flair to your walkway, you can use pavers that are available in a variety of shapes, patterns, and styles. These pavers can be laid in unique geometric patterns and mosaics to match the style and architecture of your home. Hardscapes like these offer an excellent way to personalize your landscape and add aesthetic curb appeal.

While concrete can be difficult to repair if it gets damaged, pavers can easily be removed and replaced at a much lower cost. They also can endure harsh weather conditions much better than other hardscape materials. These characteristics have made pavers an ever more popular hardscape choice. We are certified paver installers and have been trained and tested by the Interlocking Concrete Paver Institute.

Permeable pavers provide an environmentally-friendly way to add a stylish Tulsa walkway or path. These kinds of pavers can help you effectively manage storm water runoff and also help you reduce pollution by filtering pollutants from the rain water before it seeps into the ground.

With walkways and paths, the designs are endless. You can add dramatic designs or subtle touches of style and visual contrast to areas of your home and landscape. From step paths to rustic and winding stone walkways, create your own style and charm with Tulsa paver walkways and paths.

Fertilization and Weed Control Tulsa - Custom Programs for Healthy Lawns

A healthy, green lawn is the basis for any great Tulsa landscape. Having a vibrant, rich lawn sets the perfect stage for increasing curb appeal to the home and showcasing a beautiful outdoor living space. That’s why Tulsa lawn fertilization and weed control is so vital. Without the nutrients and care it needs, a lawn doesn’t have solid footing and can easily succumb to weeds, erosion, or heat.

So, even before spring comes, it’s good to have a fertilization and weed control program scheduled in order to have the healthiest lawn possible. What benefits come from having a fertilization and weed control program in place? 

Weeds are usually divided into two main categories: either broadleaf weeds or grassy weeds and can typically have either an annual or perennial life cycle. Thus, a custom pre-emergent and post-emergent weed control system is needed depending on the type of weed. Our Tulsa lawn care experts can develop a custom application schedule for your lawn to have the most effective weed control and giving you a hassle-free and weed-free lawn this spring.  

Having a Tulsa lawn care schedule ready will ensure you stop weeds from gaining the upper hand in your lawn. Especially during the spring, weed seeds are blown or carried in to your yard from surrounding areas. So, having a custom pre-emergent weed control system applied before these weeds develop will help to prevent them from taking over your lawn.

“Timing the application before germination of seeds is critical. For example, crabgrass is an annual grassy weed which germinates in the spring when soil temperatures reach 60F and above,” the University of Illinois Extension noted. “Thus, timely spring application is needed for crabgrass control products to be effective.”

This properly-timed weed control application is only part of an effective lawn care program. Keeping your lawn healthy is a vital aspect of weed control. Lawn fertilization treatments encourage a healthy, dense lawn and strong root system. Having a thick, vibrant turf will help to prevent weeds from getting the sunlight, water, and room they need to grow. Thus, a healthy, well-fertilized lawn will mean less weeds and overall less maintenance. Robust Tulsa lawns also reduce the chances of erosion, prevents areas from getting muddy, and in general is healthier for the environment.

Custom weed control and lawn fertilization programs in Tulsa can certainly bring a great deal of benefits to your landscape and your home overall. But there is a lot that goes into effective lawn care treatments. Much depends on your particular lawn and its needs. That’s why a custom Tulsa fertilization and weed control program can significantly increase the health and richness of your lawn. Oklahoma Landscape’s lawn care specialists can develop and schedule a custom program for your landscape – giving you a beautiful, weed-free, and hassle-free lawn that’s the envy of the neighborhood. Call us today to schedule your lawn treatment at 918-299-LAWN.

Updating Your Tulsa Landscape Design - Increasing Curb Appeal

Is your Tulsa landscape looking somewhat uninspiring? It’s important to maintain and make improvements to our homes, but what about our landscapes? Actually, outdated or poor landscape design can make your home look dated as well. On the other hand, elegant Tulsa landscape design can be a cost effective way to raise the value of your home and add curb appeal.

How can you renovate your Tulsa landscape and thus update your home as well?

First, make sure your shrubs, trees, and plants are not taking over your home. Over time, plants and shrubs can grow until they are no longer in proper proportion to your home or cover your windows. Trimming and pruning these can help prevent them from overtaking your home and property.

You can also relocate a shrub to another part of your landscape to give the landscape a slightly different look – sort of like adding or moving a piece of furniture in your home. Adding new variations of flowers and plants in an assortment of different colors and textures can liven up your landscape. Especially around the front door, updating containers and adding new flowers to them can really spruce up the look of your home.

Adding interesting Tulsa hardscapes is another way to bring subtle charm to your outdoor space. A flagstone pathway creates an inviting way to lead guests through your garden. Walkways can be designed using an assortment of hardscape materials that can highlight the architectural design of your home. These pathways create a visual way to connect your landscape with your home and stylishly guide visitors to your home’s entrance. 

You can also use hardscapes to edge flowerbeds to create a more modern and sleek design in your landscape. Retaining walls are another hardscape that can really give your home a sophisticated design feel by effectively separating portions of your landscape into more practical spaces while also shielding your landscape from erosion, all while using materials that come in a variety of decorative styles and colors.

Adding or updating water features like fountains or waterfalls can provide an interesting focal point for your outdoor space.

If you want to really modernize your landscape, building an outdoor kitchen or fireplace with a nearby outdoor seating – ‘living room’ – area will significantly increase the value of your home and transform your landscape. Today, these areas can have all the conveniences of home in a contemporary Tulsa outdoor environment. Outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, and fire pits create the perfect spot for entertaining friends and relaxing with family just about all year round.

From little improvements in flowers, containers, and landscaping to more extensive Tulsa landscape design additions, there’s an almost endless variety of ways to update the look of your landscape while also increasing the value of your home and neighborhood.

Choosing Annuals for Your Tulsa Garden

Many Tulsa gardeners can’t wait until spring when they can get back in to their gardens. A colorful garden of annuals can enhance any landscape. What are annuals and how can you successfully use them to enhance your Tulsa home and landscape?

Annual plants are generally ones that complete their entire growing cycle in a single growing season. They grow from seeds, create foliage, blossom, and then grow seeds and die all in the same year. Perennials, however, bloom year after year, for at least two years, but they can have a fairly short blooming season. Some hardy annuals can act more like perennials and vice versa with perennials depending on the local climate.

Annuals offer a simple way to add interesting color combinations into your Tulsa garden. They are very versatile – they work great in containers, flowerbeds, window boxes, and are ideal for lining a sidewalk.  Because they have such vigorous growth, they provide an instant or close-to-instant way to have a vibrant flower garden. These lively plants provide a showy array and diversity of color, texture, and form.

“There are annuals that are tall, medium, short or climbing; ones that prefer either full sun or partial shade; and those with special virtues, such as delightful fragrance (stock, mignonette, nicotiana) or attractive foliage (caladium, coleus, dusty miller),” Gardener’s Supply Company noted.

How can you select the best annuals for your Tulsa garden?

Planning out the colors and varieties you want along with their environmental needs on paper first can help you have a more attractive and organized garden design. Annuals generally should be planted outside in the spring after any danger of frost has passed.

Annuals that are already in bloom can be purchased at a nursery or garden center in packs and then can be relocated into the outside garden. You can also buy annuals in seed packets and either grow them indoors in late winter or early spring or grow them directly in the garden soil outside, depending on the type of seed. Buying seed packets is less expensive and offers a wider variety of flowers than what you might otherwise find in nursery packs.

Make sure the soil is well-fertilized before planting or transplanting annuals into the garden. Check the nursery or packet instructions for correct spacing of flowers to ensure they don’t get overcrowded once they mature. For flowers from nursery packs, gently break up the compounded soil/roots so that the roots will be able to grow freely in the soil.

Annuals and perennial flowers can be combined to create a colorful and engaging garden for your Tulsa home. Call Oklahoma Landscape’s horticulture experts for more details on planting your spring garden.

Choose Oklahoma Landscape - Your Full-Service Tulsa Landscaping Company - This Year

At the beginning of every year, many people look for ways to better themselves and their lives. Some make promises to eat healthier, get more sleep, or be more productive at work. Many join gyms. The new year is a great time to think about what you want to accomplish this year. Will you take a vacation? Will you remodel your house?  Buy a new car?

Among the many possibilities that may come in 2014 and all the ways to improve yourself is a perhaps an unnoticed part of your home – the outdoor living space. You may think of home makeovers as mainly for the inside of your home, but renovating your Tulsa outdoor environment actually offers a world of possibilities, as well as adding significant value to your property and home.

But how can you make sure you get the most from your outdoor space? That’s where the Tulsa landscaping company Oklahoma Landscape comes into the picture. We can expertly transform your landscape into a practical and charming outdoor environment – a living work of art – that provides a complete outdoor living space where you can de-stress with family or entertain friends. But what does that include?

We provide comprehensive Tulsa landscape design/build services. So we can plan, design, and build everything from full outdoor kitchens and outdoor fireplaces to custom swimming pools. As licensed landscape architects, we understand how to analyze your property’s landscaping and topography needs and decide the best way to use hardscape elements to make your landscape not only beautiful and sustainable but also practical for how your family plans to use the outdoor space.

Fundamental to great landscape design is understanding how to best care for your lawn. Without a healthy lawn, your landscape won’t look remain vibrant and sustainable. We offer a Tulsa fertilization and weed control program to keep your lawn well-nurtured and weed-free. As the Tulsa lawn care and maintenance experts, we can make your lawn the envy of the neighborhood and keep it looking great. For business owners, we offer commercial lawn maintenance and landscaping to renovate your commercial property’s landscape and keep your company image looking its best.

Other Tulsa lawn care and landscaping services we provide include:

• Irrigation and Drainage Systems
• Landscape and Holiday Lighting
• Aeration and Overseeding
• Shrub and Ornamental Care
• Pavers
• Pergolas and Decks
• Retaining Walls
• Tulsa Fertilization and Weed Control 

With a distinct love of landscaping and pride in seeing families enjoy their Tulsa outdoor environments for years to come, we enjoy working as a team to bring your dreams to life. We can take care of all your Tulsa landscaping needs, whether that’s fertilization and weed control or building an entire outdoor living space. That’s what we hope to accomplish in 2014 – continuing to help Tulsa area families and businesses by designing and building the outdoor environments of their dreams.

What is Involved in Landscape Architecture? What is a Tulsa Landscape Architect's Job?

The results of architecture are all around us; they are often intriguing and diverse. Although mainly known for constructing buildings and other physical structures, architecture’s most attractive works of art are perhaps found in the fascinating sceneries created by landscape architects. New York’s Central Park is one example. In fact, the term “landscape architecture” only became common after 1863 when Fredrick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) noted.

But what is involved in landscape architecture and how can it benefit your home or business?

“Landscape architects design the balance between the built and natural environment,” ASLA noted. So landscape architecture goes beyond traditional gardening or lawn care to include the careful analysis, planning, design, and management of an outdoor space. These architects design and manage the land of outdoor public areas like public squares, cemeteries, parks, waterfront developments, transportation facilities, and zoos, as well as campuses, office and retail parks, commercial property, hospitals, hotel resorts, golf courses, and residential areas such as your backyard.

They work with engineers and city planners to ‘meet human needs by making wise use of our environmental resources,’ ASLA noted. Using environmental science, these architects help to promote public health and conservation by encouraging the effective use of nature and the built environment – such as tree-lined streets, green roofs, and healing gardens at hospitals. Landscape architects are often involved in restoring damaged natural places like wetlands, mined areas, and polluted sites.

Thus, they must have a diverse set of skills that not only include landscaping but also environmental psychology, geology, site design, horticulture, drainage, grading and more.  To be a landscape architect, a license is required to practice landscape architecture in all 50 states, ASLA noted.  

So, much careful planning is involved in a Tulsa landscape architect’s job. They figure out how the homeowner, property manager, or city planner wants to use the landscape and designs an outdoor environment best fit for those needs so the landscape is not only beautiful but practical and engaging. But this also includes site analysis to know how best to care for the landscape and protect its long-term well-being. With artistic style and science, a landscape architect can help your outdoor living space reach its full potential even by adding hardscape features like an outdoor fireplace or kitchen.

With this careful design comes detailed drawing and often 3D modelling of how the outdoor space will look, what features it will include, and where to plant trees, shrubs, etc. to best use the landscape and help conserve energy. By strategic placement of trees and shrubs, landscape architects can even lower a home’s heating and cooling costs.

After initial planning and design, landscape architects continue to oversee the landscape development throughout the construction process to ensure the project is done right. They may continue to oversee the care of the landscape after project competition, providing direction for how to best care for the landscape.

Thus, when you hire a Tulsa landscape architect, you get a wealth of knowledge and well-thought out planning that far exceeds simple lawn care. A licensed landscape architect can help you create a balanced, practical, and artful outdoor environment for your backyard or commercial property. They can help you ‘find yourself outside’ by utilizing nature and the built environment to create a captivating architectural environment. 

 

Commercial Lawn Care Tulsa - Advantages of Professional Lawn Maintenance for your Business

When you approach the door of a business, college campus, retail park, or hospital, what catches your eye? Does the landscaping have a bearing on what you think of the company?

As a business owner, you understand how essential first impressions are, especially for a company. When clients first approach your Tulsa commercial property, the property’s landscaping can have a vivid effect on the image your company portrays. A neat, well-designed, organized landscape gives the impression that the organization also manifests those qualities and as well as caring for the environment. A beautiful, well-kept lawn instils confidence in customers, employees, future residents, or students. Thus, Tulsa commercial lawn maintenance and landscaping can be a crucial part of a company’s corporate identity, effectively conveying the professional brand image you want your company to have. This, in turn, translate into a significant return on investment.

What are some of the advantages of having a professional Tulsa landscaping company manage your commercial lawn care?

Less Stress

Why spend time worrying about the lawn care needs of your company? Lawn care can be very laborious for a business owner, and supervising multiple landscape contractors and handling lawn maintenance dilemmas can be stressful. With one professional landscaping company taking care of all your lawn care needs, you can save time, money, and focus on more important business matters.

With Tulsa commercial lawn maintenance, you’ll know your landscape will be cared for on a consistent basis. Regular care is needed for lawns to maintain their beauty and health. Your staff may not be able to consistently mow or manage your entire landscape. Hiring a professional company dedicated to maintaining the beauty of your landscape will ensure that it’s attended to regularly.

Landscape Design

A landscaping company can give your lawn the professional appearance you want your company to showcase. Landscaping experts can design a functional and aesthetically-engaging outdoor space for your business, homeowner’s association, campus, retail park, outdoor sports facility, office park, golf club, or apartment property. And these landscape design professionals can keep your landscape looking fresh and new, giving you ideas on how to effectively update your landscape in the most cost-effective way. Tulsa lawn care professionals understand how to get the most from your landscape and bring out its full beauty and potential with innovative landscaping techniques.

Skilled Lawn Care

Keeping a landscape healthy and beauty involves more than mowing it regularly. To have a vibrant, healthy lawn, you would need to help the lawn have all the nutrients it needs and be able to detect any potential problems.

Professional Tulsa lawn care experts have the in-depth knowledge and skills needed to promote the long-term health of your landscape, including fertilization and weed control programs, tree and shrub care, lawn aeration, overseeding, and prevent and treat insect disease. Knowing how to effectively treat the overall health of your lawn will help it to thrive, and in the end, save you money by preventing costly problems.

Equipment Savings

Buying enough lawn care equipment to adequately take care of an entire commercial property can be quite expensive. And maintaining that equipment over the years can only add to that expense. Prevent the added worry, stress, and costs of having to buy your own equipment by hiring professional lawn maintenance. Leave the responsibility and expense of having the right lawn care tools, fertilizers, and equipment to the lawn care professionals.

Business owners, property managers, schools, healthcare facilities, and other organizations can all benefit greatly from the positive first impression a well-designed and manicured landscape can have on customers.

Custom Landscape Lighting in Tulsa - What are the Benefits?

Lighting is essential inside our home, shouldn’t it also be outside? Landscape lighting in Tulsa can make your home sparkle this winter while giving your property added definition and character. There are numerous benefits to having landscape lighting installed in your outdoor living space. Notice just a few:

Enhance your Landscape Design

Well-planned Tulsa landscape lighting can enhance the design and feel of your outdoor environment significantly. Lighting can highlight the architecture of your home and accentuate features of your landscape like a birdbath or statue that might otherwise be missed. Imagine the effect of well-adjusted lighting around your Tulsa spa or pool. Accent lighting should match the entire landscape, and the style of the lighting should balance the personality of the home. Diverse effects can be created by using several lighting types and angles such as highlighting, silhouetting, moonlighting, wall lighting, and shadowing. Each of these landscape lighting techniques create a distinct lighting tone for the garden – telling a story about the property through lighting.

Extended Outdoor Use

Who of us wouldn’t want to enjoy more use of our outdoor environment? With effective landscape lighting, homeowners can use their outdoor living space at all hours even when the days get shorter. Landscape lighting enables homeowners to have family dinners, gatherings, and parties outside at night safely and comfortably. Spend romantic evenings outside talking in a comfortable outdoor living area. Get the most from your outdoor environment with efficient landscape lighting. Safe and environmentally-friendly LED lighting can offer considerable savings over traditional landscape lighting. LED lighting offers lower operating costs with less maintenance and longer bulb life. 

Safety and Security

One of the main advantages of Tulsa landscape lighting is the added protection and security it provides. Well-lit walkways, steps, pathways, and entrances offer protection against falls and trips. Driveway lighting can help direct people safely while also visually connecting the home and landscape. Steps leading to the house or to a backyard patio or deck can present a certain stumbling danger, but stylish and effective pathway lighting of these areas can prevent serious injuries. Also, burglars are less likely to target well-lit homes. Keeping areas near doors, windows, and shrubs well-lit can help discourage burglars who prefer to hide in the cover of darkness. Proper landscape lighting can help stop your home from looking unoccupied and susceptible to thieves. Lighting can go a long way in creating a more safe and secure home for your family.

A custom Tulsa landscape lighting design allows you to beautifully showcase your outdoor living space while stylishly making it more safe and secure, and giving you more time to ‘find yourself outside.’