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Here in Sarasota our landscape is spoiled by our beautiful weather, however from time to time we get freezes in December all the way through the end of February.  Protecting your landscape is vital to keeping landscape damage from freeze to a minimum.  Things to do before a forecasted freeze. Plant selection should be first, make sure that hardy ornamentals are used in the primary landscape, tender plants such as annuals should be planted in a site with good air drainage, rather than a low area where cold air settles, arrange plantings, fences or other barriers to protect tender plants from cold winds and especially from advective freezes.  Covering plants with proper cloth will protect most plantings, newly planted palms or palms not acclimated to cold weather should be tied up and wprpped in a blanket, remember to remove blanket the nest day and wrap again at night.  Optimal levals of nutrients during the year will insure sarasota landscape plants a much easier transition through the cold months.  Irrigation in Sarsota during the Winter months will also help plants trees and palms through the harsh winter nights.  For more information visit our web site at www.stateoftheartlandscaping.com

Water conservation is a year round job, especially with the 7 year drought we have here in Sarasota County.  Sarasota irrigation maintenance is atleast a monthly inspection of your system. Here are a few tips on what to do for the month of December to keep your Sarasota irrigation systems running efficiently.  Check and clean irrigation filter. 2. Replenish mulch. 3. set irrigation start times to every other week.  4.Run all stations and check each componet for leaks, and make sure heads are straight.  5. Hire a Sarasota irrigation contractor to install micro zones on yur plant material and re landscape with drought tolerant plants

Well here we are at the end of another year in Sarasota.  Landscaping in Sarasota has been very rewarding this year.  Winterizing your landscape which I hope we all did, fertilizing plants in Sarasota is very important to protect them from winters cold fronts and dry weather.  I find myself watering my plant material in Sarasota much less by installing an E.Z. flow fertilization system, not only does the turf in Sarasota do much better fighting pest and disease but it reduces water requirements up to 25 percent.  Lawn care and landscaping in Venice has really picked up now that all the Northerners are back.  I find them asking more questions about how to conserve water and lower fertilizer run off into our water ways, I hope the message gets out, that we can have a beautiful landscape in Sarasota without damaging our beautiful enviroment.

Now that all our Northern friends are back Im sure they have found that their irigation in Sarasota needs some attention, we are promoting a fifteen point irrigation tune up for very little money, keeping your irrigation system maintained is extremely important especially with South West Floridas water issues keeping your rain sensor in check, making sure spray patterns are correct, that no parts are leaking wasting valuable water.  Also landscaping with Native Florida Plants will reduce your need to irrigate therefor reducing your maintenance cost, fertilizer cost and so on. for more information go to irrigation tv or my web site at www.stateoftheartlandscaping.com

Here are some very good resons to incorparate Native Florida Plants in your landscape. 1.Conserve water, Half of Floridas drinking water is used to irrigate turf grass and non native plants. Native Plants thrive on rainfall and have gotten by with no irrigation for thousands of years. 2. most non Native Plants are transported all over the world and depend on fossil based fertilizers, pesticide and fungicides. Native plants grown in Florida reduce emmissions and the need for transport reducing our consumption of foriegn made fuels.  3. Reduce polution, our water and air quality are compromised by synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, also emmisions from lawn equipment which is used to take care of over manicured lawns, especially turf grass.  Installing ecosystem based, naturalistic designs using native plants reduce fertilizers, and other harmful chemicals while filtering our air and water ways.  3. Eliminate waste by installing a well designed eco friendly landscape.  Green waste is outlawed in Sarasota and the rest of the state.  For millions of years balanced ecosystems have existed with no waste, everything is used and recycled.  Sustainable landscape design based on Sarasota Native Landscapes can reduce or eliminate waste in our landfills. 4 Also when introducing non native plants to Sarasota we bring diseases, pest insects, and invasive plants that harm our natural enviroment, therfor we have to use more polluting pesticides and fertilizers, we will all be better off by using Florida Friendly landscape material, please we are all in this together, be responsible when planning your landscape material, or hire a qualified landscape contractor, that specializes in native landscape installation.