Wintertime brings plenty of cold wind, snow, and ice. While the icicles hanging from trees might look charming and decorative, they can actually cause damage to your foliage. While you can’t control Mother Nature and all that she throws our way here in the Sandhills area, you can clean up afterward to save your landscaping. […]

Winters in Piedmont, NC, can be brutal. Temperatures drop drastically and cause tremendous stress for shrubs and evergreens. Proper winter care is essential to ensuring your trees make it through the winter and emerge in the spring without winter burn. Most people assume that the evergreens and boxwood shrubs are hardy and built for cold […]

Despite your best efforts in proper lawn care, sometimes your lawn and landscaping can be attacked by small underground rodents. In Sandhills, NC, both moles and voles are a common problem for homeowners, destroying plant roots and creating dirt mounds throughout lawns. If you’re looking for expert care and solutions, then reach out to the […]

Preparing your lawn for cooler weather is an essential part of ensuring that you maintain healthy, green grass all year long. With professional lawn care services from Nature’s Select Sandhills, you can feel confident in the health of your lawn no matter what nature throws at us. As the holidays approach and the cooler weather […]

It’s not uncommon for homeowners to worry about their grass, but overlook the health of trees and shrubs. However, these living structures are an important part of your property, and taking care of them ensures that everything else on your lawn remains happy and healthy. Depending on the season, Nature’s Select Sandhills has specific programs […]

Mouse-ear Chickweed Mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare) showing hairy leaves & red-purple stems Mouse-ear chickweed is a winter annual weed with a vigorous, low-growing habit. The reddish stems may root at nodes when in contact with the soil. The flowers are small and white, with slightly notched petals. Seeds germinate in fall and grow […]

For most homeowners, creating the perfect lawn seems more like a fairy tale than a realistic goal. No magic pill, wish-granting genie, or wand waving can replace the hard work it will take to achieve the lush green expanse we all crave. Most of us are just happy the yard is green. Does it matter […]

Aeration removes plugs of turf and soil, allowing better penetration of air, water and nutrients into the soil. Lawn advice usually runs toward applying, as in apply x pounds of nitrogen, apply herbicides for weeds or fungicide, or apply water at this rate for success. Well, our advice today is not about applying, it’s about […]

So we’ve written before about the benefits of fall aeration & seeding, but nothing illustrates the amazing results that you can get with aeration & seeding like a picture! Let’s see what the process looks like start-to-finish with progress pictures. Before: Late August 2018 We have a rocky start -literally- with our subject lawn. Neglected […]

Is your irrigation effective? Don’t you wish that watering your lawn was like a “one size fits all” t-shirt? Wouldn’t it be nice to follow one set of guidelines, set your irrigation unit once, and forget about the whole thing once and for all? Unfortunately, when it comes to watering the “set it and forget […]