Lisa's Landscape & Design

Saving the Planet One Yard at a Time

Category Archives: Tree Trimming

Is Your Landscaper Killing Your Landscape?

Bad landscape practices

You’d be unpleasantly surprised by how often I’m called to a clients home for consulting only to inform them that the service they hired to care for it is the reason for their problems. More times than not, your landscaper is killing your landscape.  Unnecessary Trimming is Ruining Your Landscape   One of many reasons …

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Central Texas Winter Gardening Tips

Most people who garden for passion or exercise are always looking for a winter project, but whether you’re an average gardener or a nut job like me who can’t wait until spring, your plants will benefit from you being on pause. Here are my top 5 reasons to let your plants relax over the winter …

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Trees Deserve Respect

Owning or leasing property with saplings or mature trees is not only a gift to you, it is a gift to our planet and to our children’s future. Did you know that one mature tree produces enough oxygen for two people’s lifetimes? As if that’s not impressive enough, one mature 30 to 50’ shade tree …

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Online or In Person Landscape Consultation, Austin and Zone 8

Everyone Should Have a Landscape Consultation  As a mother of two young adult sons with autism, a Landscape Designer and Educational Consultant for the last 20 years in Central Texas, I am well versed in adjustments. That being said, I am more determined than ever to provide service at the highest levels and I believe …

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Belinda’s Dream Rose

This full sun, 5’x 5′ shrub rose is one I have coveted for many years and never had the room for, so when I moved in late 2015 it was one of the first plants I used and I found just the right spot for it. Belinda’s Dream is an “Earth Kind Rose” which are …

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