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Entrust your home’s landscape to Obelisk and experience the transformation of your outdoor spaces. Our commitment to quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction sets us apart in the industry. Let us help you create an outdoor space that you’ll love to enjoy with family and friends.
Back Flow Prevention – Experts
A backflow preventer is required to be installed at most properties. It prevents the contamination of the potable water supply. Backflow preventers are excluded from CCPIA’s Standards of Practice, but the commercial building inspector should note whether one is present at the subject property. You may also want to talk about expanding the inspection’s scope of work to include a thorough evaluation of its installation because a backflow preventer is vital for protecting the health of the building’s occupants and customers. A thorough evaluation of the system could include hiring a certified backflow inspector, or contacting your local regulating governmental office. Contact our experts today.
What grows in shady area?
While having a well-shaded yard or a shady area of your yard can seem limiting, there’s a wealth of options for perennial plants that are shade-tolerant or require shade to thrive. And while hostas are a go-to shade plant, notable for being a rugged and low-maintenance grower, there are plenty of other easy-care perennials that will have it made in the shade!
If you have a shady area that could use a little visual excitement, start with this list of 10 vibrant and vigorous plants that grow really well in the shade.
- Heuchera spp. (Coral Bells)
- Lamium Maculatum (Dead Nettle)
- Tiarella cordifolia (Foamflower)
- Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
- Astilbe
- Digitalis (Foxglove)
- Hakonechloa (Japanese forest grass)
- Primula (Primrose)
- Euphorbia (Spurge)
- Alchemilla (Lady’s mantle)
Winter Preparation
Understanding the winter in the Bay area can be a difficult problem seeing that we’re in the mediterranean climate. Effective landscape in this area is about knowing and understanding the temperature points. By planing for the future you can minimize plant loss and configure your garden before the first frost. Regular up keep, maintenance and a blanket for the soil (mulch) can help strengthen plants and resilient enough to withstand the drops in temperature.
Leaves should not be mulched and used as fertilizer for lawns
All though shredding leaves can be beneficial to your lawn ultimately it causes more harm then good. Things to know about shredding your leaves on the lawn is that it leaves your grass smothered with layers of shredded leaves, blocking sun light, water, nutrients and oxygen from the grass preventing photosynthesizing and growing. It also leaves your lawn suseptble to diseases, pests, molds etc…. We at obelisk love educating our clients on proper lawn care. Contact us and get your quote today.
Smart Controllers – Take advantage of the Santa Clara Valley Water Rebates
The Santa Clara County Offers many rebate incentives to water conservation allowing homeowners and business to upgrade their landscape for a fraction of the cost. These incentives cover controller upgrades, grass conversion, drip conversions and so much more. The implementation of a smart irrigation controller Is a game changer to the industry making water management and cost minimal while maximizing your return. These systems automatically adjust watering schedules based on real hour to hour weather conditions.
Job: Full-time (+40 hours per week) Landscapers
Are you a top producer who is looking to show your landscaping skills to us and be fairly rewarded? Are you able to manage job sites and read landscape drawings? At The Landscaper we offer: Full Time, Year Round employment, Shared benefit package, Excellent work environment…
We currently have openings for top performing leaders who will lead a crew of 2-3 people, installing custom landscapes from start to finish. We offer year round employment to our key players, plus competitive wages and OT over 8hrs/day, based on an average of 40hrs/week
Article: How to Get Rid of Crabgrass for Good
The best weapon you have against this annual weed is crabgrass preemergence herbicide (also called crabgrass preventer). You apply this product in the spring before the crabgrass seed sprouts. This granular herbicide works by creating a chemical barrier at the surface of the soil. As the seeds begin germination, they take in the herbicide and die.
Water Management
Making water conservation a way of life is critical to the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of Santa Clara County, which is prone to multi-year droughts and resulting water shortages. In June of 2023, Valley Water Board adopted and declared that continued water conservation should be a way of life in our area. Water should be treated as a limited resource and not misused, even during non-drought periods. Our goal is to ensure continued water conservation and sustainable water supplies.