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Crape Myrtle Trees: Proper Care for Apartment Communities
One of the more popular flowering trees typical of apartment landscapes in the southern U.S. are Crape Myrtles. With white, pink, lavender and red bouquets that burst in the spring and usually stay...
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Mulch Ado about Landscaping: 7 Tips for Apartment Properties
A fast, easy way to shore up the apartment community landscape is applying mulch to beds and trees, and now is the perfect time to mulch around the apartment community. A good, quality mulch that’s...
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Landscape Lighting Helps Apartment Marketing Burn into the Night
Just because the lights go off in the property management office doesn’t mean that on-site apartment marketing should go dark. Websites and social media chatter keep promotional fires burning into the...
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Perennial Curb Appeal: Four Tips for Creating Year-Long Color
Each year, properties spend thousands of dollars on colorful flowers to boost curb appeal and improve property maintenance during growing seasons. In a day’s time, beds are stripped of the remnants of...
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Mosquito Control Tips for Apartment Properties
Picnics and outdoor grilling traditionally mark each Memorial Day, but the holiday that signals the near end of spring and start of summer also is the beginning of mosquito season. Summer barbecues at...
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How Smart Irrigation Reduces Property Management Costs
Smart irrigation controllers are getting smarter, sharing the same status as building intelligence and those fully accessible, trendy thermostats that feed off of big data. With new smart irrigation...
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The Sunny Side of Rainwater Harvesting for Property Managers
Photo via gilintx via Flickr CC When the skies open and the rain pours, apartment properties and property management companies have a perfect opportunity to take advantage of one of Nature’s greatest...
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Water Conservation Tips for Apartment Properties: Cycle and Soak Irrigation...
While this summer hasn’t been the typical scorcher in Texas and the Southwest, continued drought conditions are forcing water conservationists to look deeper into the calendar to extend lawn watering...
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Seasonal Landscaping Tips: Fall Cleanup for Apartment Properties
The seasonal burst of color has started in many areas of the country, and with the spectacular displays come one seasonal rite of passage – fall leaf cleanup. As deciduous and semi-deciduous trees...
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Lawn Aeration Gives Property Landscapes Room to Breathe
High-density living can seem a bit crowded at times, and the same goes true for landscapes. Even those spacious green areas scattered about apartment dwellings and gathering centers that provide...
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3 Tips for Creating Outdoor Living Spaces
Photo: Zac Chaffin, Earthworks It’s no secret that outdoor living spaces are among the amenities that help attract and maintain apartment residents. Cooking under the stars in a quaint outdoor...
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7 Landscaping Tips to Prep Your Property for Spring
As temperatures plummet and landscapes are blanketed with snow and ice this winter, thoughts about spring hardly come to mind. If they do, they are probably more out of wishful thinking for warmer...
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Sustainable Landscaping Tips: Organic Vs. Inorganic
Nature can be a pretty mysterious ol’ gal. When you think about it, everything in this world is derived by some process from nature – whether it’s as organic as a bag of compost or inorganic as a sack...
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Hybrid Grass Enhances Lawnscaping for Apartment Communities
The grass may not always be greener on the other side in the apartment industry, but there are certainly plenty of options for creating the ultimate lawn experience (a growing lifestyle practice also...
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Better Water Flow Control Saves Apartment Communities More Dough
The latest frontier in apartment landscape irrigation is being reached by better management of water flow through systems retrofitted with master valves and flow meter sensors. Older systems that were...
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6 Tips to Prepare Apartment Landscapes for Severe Spring Weather
Spring is a time to revitalize landscapes, but a downfall is severe weather. Powerful storms with high wind, hail, and heavy rain – even tornadoes and hurricanes – can wipe out or significantly damage...
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