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How Landscaping Design Services Can Help Your Curb Appeal

May 29, 2024January 12, 2022 by The Parke Company

On top of all of the other wild changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the housing market has seen a dramatic shift over the last two years. As all experts can agree, the market is certainly favoring sellers, and there may be no better time than now to put your house up for sale.

Even in a seller’s market, you cannot rely on your house to sell itself. There are plenty of home renovations you can make to help increase your home’s value and shorten its time on the market to make a quick sale.

While bathroom renovations and kitchen updates are sure to make your house more attractive to buyers, they require huge investments of time and money to yield any value for your home.

If you are looking for a cost-effective and timely solution to help boost your home’s chances of selling, look no further than your home’s front yard. Here is how landscaping design services can help your curb appeal and get your home sold quickly.

How Landscaping Improves Your Home

Lawn Care

A beautiful green lawn is crucial for those looking to put their house on the market. It is also one of the simplest and most cost-effective ways to improve your curb appeal.

It can be easy to let your lawn go to the wayside with all of the other tasks in your plan when selling a house. It is even easier to forget about your lawn if you have already moved into a new house across town or out of state.

An unkempt lawn is unattractive to buyers, but it is also a signal to home invaders that the house is vacant, which will put you at risk for a break in.

Lawn care is the perfect landscaping service to give you great bang for your buck and get your home closer to a sale.

Softscapes and Hardscapes Installation

While lawn care is an easy and cheap way to improve your home’s curb appeal, there are ways to make a more dramatic impact on the look of your home through landscaping design services.

Softscapes and hardscapes are the perfect ways to increase value and bring your home from drab to gorgeous without lifting a finger.

Hardscapes are curb appeal landscaping that can also be quite functional. Consider smaller additions like a paver from your driveway to your front door or a decorative walkway to add aesthetic beauty while making your property more accessible via paved walkways.

Softscapes may not have as much utility as hardscapes, but they certainly have a dramatic visual impact.

The installation of flower beds, shrubbery, and mulch can help create a home that looks truly alive.

Prospective homebuyers want to envision themselves in your home, but it may be hard to look past an unsightly yard without thinking about the investments it may take to bring it back to life.

When you contact the team of experts at The Parke Company, they can help you to devise the perfect soft or hardscapes to boost your curb appeal and make your home the most attractive one on the block.

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From leaf removal to landscape installations, the Parke Company’s experienced professionals are ready to develop a landscaping plan that works for your property and your budget. For this and more curb appeal landscaping ideas, give us a call at (615-350-6033) or contact us online today to see how The Parke Company difference can work for you.

What Are the Most Popular Types of Pruning?

September 11, 2024December 24, 2021 by The Parke Company

There are plenty of ways to care for your lawn and garden. From irrigation system installation to leaf removal to something as simple as lawn mowing, property owners have a number of options for tending their yards.

It doesn’t take an expert gardener to know that pruning is a great way to protect the health of plants. Even the most inexperienced gardeners know that a pair of pruning shears can be a plant lover’s best friend.

What you may not have known, however, is that pruning is a lot more than just cutting away branches and twigs to create shapes.

There are many different types of pruning that can serve many different purposes. Here is everything you need to know about the most popular types of pruning with tips from The Parke Company.

Most Popular Types of Pruning

Thinning Cuts

Thinning cuts are known by several names, such as removal cuts, collar cuts, or natural target pruning cuts.

The purpose of thinning cuts is to remove side branches of a parent branch or remove a smaller branch from the trunk. There are a number of benefits to thinning cuts.

From an aesthetic angle, thinning cuts can help with canopy thinning: a process that includes a whole host of its own benefits, including the increased growth of interior branches.

Thinning cuts also help to preserve the branch defense zone, which gives trees and other plants an advanced defense against internal decay.

Reduction Cuts

Reduction cuts are another beneficial form of pruning. This type of pruning is the inverse of thinning cuts and actually removes a larger branch back to a smaller side branch.

This method involves making cuts to fully bisect the branches at an angle. While sometimes necessary, this method can be tricky because this type of pruning does not create a branch defense zone and leaves the branch without much defense against decay.

Reduction cuts are required, however, because this type of pruning is the only method that will significantly shorten a tree.

Heading Cuts

While certainly not the last type of pruning, heading cuts can be a perfect pruning method when you need to remove the tip from a branch.

Typically, this method is used to create density in a tree because heading cuts release side buds which results in increased growth at the place where the branch has been pruned.

When pruning bushes or shrubs, heading cuts can create a very dense canopy, resulting in a woody base due to the increased shade on the lower portion of the shrub.

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These different methods of pruning are only a few of the ways that you and your landscaping professional can help your property look its best.

To determine what type of landscaping services are best for you, contact the experts.

If you’re looking for the best landscaping companies in Nashville, look no further. With one quick call to the expert landscaping designers in Nashville, TN, your small yard will be the envy of property owners with ten times the space.

Irrigation system installation and landscaping services from a landscaping maintenance company like The Parke Company can help you protect and beautify your property without the hassle of tackling projects on your own. For residential or commercial landscape maintenance, give us a call at 615-350-6033 or contact us online today to see how The Parke Company difference can work for you!

How to Enhance a Small Yard

March 7, 2024December 12, 2021 by The Parke Company

Purchasing a new home is one of the most exciting milestones in a person’s life. Whether you are a first-time homeowner or moving from one home to another, there are a number of factors to consider when purchasing a home.

For many people, location and size of the home are non-negotiable, and in the process of prioritizing these things, the landscape often gets put on the back burner. If you have had to sacrifice the size of your yard to be closer to work or to get the right number of bedrooms and bathrooms, you don’t have to settle for a lackluster backyard.

Here is what you need to know about enhancing a small yard and making the most use of your space with some tips from The Parke Company.

Ways to Enhance a Small Yard

Tree Trimming

Trees add a lot to the beauty of a landscape. They can offer shade in the summer and add a majestic quality to the look of your yard. Unfortunately, trees are one landscape feature that can make your yard look and feel significantly smaller, especially if your property is already smaller than you would like it to be.

It is important to remember that, while the diameter of a tree’s trunk may be fairly small, it will take up far more space than just the body of the tree. A tree’s roots will spread out far into your yard and may make a large space unusable for other things you may want. Tree roots would grow through and crack any pavers below it, and tree roots completely eliminate the possibility of things like a pool or fountain.

Your trees’ canopy can also minimize the look and feel of your yard. As lovely as shade may feel in the summer, a heavy tree canopy makes your yard dark and cramped under tree branches and significantly limits the plant growth that can occur.

Depending on your desire for your yard, you may first consider crown thinning to open up your yard to the sun and make the space seem bigger through greater exposure to the sun. If you want to make more use of your space through hardscape installations and pavers, you may even consider full tree removal to get the most of your square footage.

Landscape Installations

Landscape installations of all kinds can help you to make the best use of the space you have. Even if you don’t have acres of land to use, there are certainly ways to capitalize on every inch to create the yard of your dreams.

Making the best use of your space is all about how you want to use it. Amateur gardeners may consider getting raised beds installed if your yard’s soil is less than ideal or cramped space challenges your gardening prospects.

For those looking to host backyard parties, the savviest backyard may be structured with pavers and other hardscape installations that prioritize function over beauty.

In any case, an experienced, professional opinion is the best way to make sure that you can bring your landscape dreams to life, even in a cramped yard.

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It takes a trained eye to see a small yard and bring big dreams to fruition.

National Recycles Day 2021: Parke Company Tree & Landscape at Radnor Lake

October 30, 2025December 6, 2021 by The Parke Company

The Parke Company team recently donated our time and resources to our friends at Radnor Lake for National Recycle Day. The Parke Company decided to take action because we wanted to help our local community and a cause that we believe in—what better time to do so than to jump in during National Recycle Day.

Though there are many ways businesses and people alike can contribute to a better community, we decided our contribution would be to cover the trails with mulch from recycled tree chips. This gave us the opportunity to reuse trees that had already been cut down. Even better, it allowed us to refrain from cutting down more trees to make this mulch.

On November 15, 2021, The Parke Company team brought in a large pickup truck full of mulch and got to work! Our volunteers used wheelbarrows to spread the mulch throughout the trails, making sure that it created a beautiful, more eco-friendly space without hindering the natural ecosystems or suffocating trees.

Mulch has many benefits, especially in the fall. It provides insulation going into the colder months, allowing small ecosystems and organisms that make a huge difference to thrive and become stronger for spring. Mulching can also prevent erosion, which can damage our parks and our trails during rainy Tennessee autumns. Mulch adds an extra layer of protection against moisture loss in plants and trees and suppresses weeds from growing in abundance. Adding mulch from recycled trees is a beautiful way to give back to an ecosystem that has already given so much by not hurting it further.

It ended up being a successful and fulfilling day for all involved. The Parke Company was able to give back to a community that has served us so well for years. For images of our process or more information from our friends at Radnor Lake, follow this link.

https://radnorlake.org/news/national-recycles-day-2021-spotlight-parke-company-tree-and-landscape-at-radnor-lake/

How to Set Up My Yard for the Holidays

March 7, 2024November 20, 2021 by The Parke Company

Snowy house and yard during the holidays

The fall moves by quickly, and before you know it, it will be time to make hosting plans for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and any other winter event that brings your loved ones together.

As November ends, you have plenty to worry about and gifts and food to budget for. That last thing you want to add to your winter to-do list is preparing your garden and landscape for the long winter.

Make it easy to get ready for friends and family with these tips for preparing your yard for the holidays from The Parke Company.

Tips for Preparing Your Yard for the Holidays

Overwintering

Overwintering is an important process for getting your lawn and garden ready for the holidays.

If you live in an area that receives heavy snowfall, it goes without saying that your summer blooms won’t make it through the winter.

For some plant species a process called overwintering may help you to preserve your landscape, even when the weather outside is frightful.

Overwintering involves uprooting a plant or bulb and storing it indoors until weather conditions are more favorable. If you think overwintering may help maintain your yard for the holiday season, landscaping services from a landscaping company like The Parke Company are just what you need to care for your property.

Irrigation Services

Irrigation systems are the simple trick for low-maintenance front yard landscaping. The right irrigation system can take all of the tedium out of your regular lawn maintenance without sacrificing the quality of your grass’ health.

Even in areas that don’t experience much snowfall, it is still important to seek out irrigation services when the seasons change.

In areas of the United States like Tennessee and Kentucky, winters may be mild, but there are certainly changes in the weather as the seasons progress.

Colder weather and reduced sun exposure may mean that your lawn’s moisture needs are reduced, and failing to adjust your irrigation settings may result in drawing your grass. Excess moisture can also develop mold and mildew, which spreads across your yard and damages the health of your landscape.

To make sure you have yards ready for Thanksgiving football games and fall family bonfires, irrigation services should be at the top of your list for setting up your yard for the holidays.

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Aesthetic improvements to your yard are important, but preparing your landscape for the environmental changes that come with winter are equally important to maintain the health of your property.

If you’re looking for the best landscaping companies in Nashville, look no further. With one quick call to the expert landscaping designers in Nashville, TN, keeping your lawn healthy year round is a no-brainer.