The Level Green Landscaping Blog

Expert Industry Advice and Property Enhancement Suggestions.

First off, these are no ordinary cicadas.

Their name even sounds ominous: “Brood X.”

This vast horde of insects will emerge in late April or early May from their 17-year stay underground, and the DC/Maryland/Virginia area is the epicenter of this cicada fest.

Don’t panic, but if the first robin has shown up at your HOA, he’s trying to tell you something.

1. You need more worms.

2. It’s time for spring landscaping services.

Winter has a way of making things a mess, and that’s not the look you want for your impressive HOA property.

More than ever these days, life revolves around home.

When Level Green Landscaping crews show up to maintain an HOA, we know it’s more than a collection of lawns, trees, shrubs, and flowers.

It’s home.

The most important reason to have a robot mow your lawn isn’t so you look like the coolest business in town.

Still, it’s not a bad reason, right?

Here at Level Green Landscaping, we’re excited to roll out our first robotic mowers in 2021.

Michael Mayberry, Level Green Chief Technology Officer, talks about what these impressive mowers can do — and why property managers should be almost as excited as he is.

Everybody loves saving a few bucks.

Buy one pizza, get one free can actually make your whole day, right?

So when customers suggest cutting a few items from their commercial landscaping contract, we get it.

But unlike that pizza, cutting landscaping services isn’t necessarily a good deal. (Also, there’s no pepperoni involved, which makes things even worse.)

It can actually cost you more in the end.

Here’s how:

As Level Green Landscaping switches from mowing and weeding to clearing snow and de-icing pavement, Covid-19 cases continue to rise.

That means the safety precautions we’ve taken since the beginning of the pandemic are still in full swing, with extra measures for snow season.

“We take this very seriously,” says Level Green Snow Manager Greg Stacho. “Customers might not notice anything different, but we’re continuing to follow the rigorous precautions that we’ve followed all along.”

Here’s a look behind the scenes at our Covid precautions for snow season:

When most people get ready for winter, they dig around in a drawer for warm gloves and move the snowblower to the front of the garage where the lawn mower used to be.

Here at Level Green Landscaping, there’s a lot more to it than that.

You know that scene in the holiday movie, “Elf,“ where as soon as Santa returns from his Christmas Eve journey, the elves get to work on toys for next Christmas?

It’s like that.

Some surprises are great. Like when you think you already ate all the mint chocolate chip ice cream in the freezer, but hey, there’s a little bit left!

Others, not so great. Like when your commercial property’s lawn dies, and you have to dip into your already stretched budget to replace it. Surprise!

On days like that, ice cream helps. Better yet, add a few key commercial landscaping services into your contract to help avoid those unpleasant surprise costs.

Consider adding these:

Everybody loves insider info. It’s like you suddenly know a secret few people know.

So, if you’re a tulip fan (who isn’t?) it’s kind of exciting to get a peek at the tulip order that branch manager James Kole placed last year for his Level Green Landscaping customers.

What tulips does a pro order?

Let’s take a look. Then we’ll share some tantalizing tulip tips.

It’s easy to go a bit water crazy in the summer, dashing out to water our lawns at the hint of a brown blade or two.

But would our lawns care if we took some time off to hit the beach or play some golf?

How important is watering turf in the summer?

Put down the sprinkler and let’s take a look.