Seasonal
Buy Shade Before You Buy Anything Else
In a city with 74 days a year above 100F, shade returns more per dollar than any other landscape spend. Planted against built, timescales, and what it changes.
Field Notes
Field notes on Laredo yards
Shorter pieces on the things that come up over and over here: which day the city has assigned your address, what the shovel hits and how deep, which plants came back after the freeze, and where the money goes on a yard that was never designed for this climate.
Pricing
Anatomy of a Builder-Grade Yard, and the Price of Fixing It
Thin topsoil, wall-to-wall turf and one overworked irrigation zone: what a new-build Laredo yard lacks, what each repair costs, and which order to spend in.
The Ground
What a Dig Test Tells You That the Soil Map Cannot
The soil survey maps country, not properties. A few test holes on your own Laredo lot answer the question the survey cannot, and the answer changes the plant list and the excavation price.
Seasonal
The Landscape Year Here Starts in October, Not April
Why the cool season carries the productive landscape work in Laredo, a month-by-month schedule from October to March, and why summer pruning backfires.
Plants
Cenizo, and How to Build a Border Palette Around It
Why cenizo anchors so many Webb County yards, what triggers its flowering, and which companion plants turn a thin-looking xeriscape into a composed border.
Plants
The February 2021 Freeze and the Plants That Returned
What the 2021 winter storm did to South Texas yards, which plants died and which resprouted, and how Laredo homeowners rebuilt their planting lists after it.
Water
How You Water, and Everything It Quietly Decides
Why spray and drip are not the same act in this climate, how to set a controller that nobody revisits, and what that one difference does to the layout of a Laredo yard.
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