Published on Friday, April 12, 2013
This month, we are celebrating our 7-year anniversary of being in the lawn/garden design & maintenance business. It seems like time has gone by so quickly! We have had the fortunate pleasure to work with so many wonderful clients from all over Atlanta, Mableton, Smyrna, & Vinings. We have won over 20 industry awards including the Vince Dooley WOW award and many others at this year’s Southeastern Flower Show. As many small business owners would agree, the...
Published on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Just like last year, Spring sprang early as indicated by the abundance of flowering trees we all have been enjoying for the past few weeks. It’s safe to say that Georgia has seen it’s last big freeze and, soon enough, we can enjoy our garden splendor. Hopefully, most of our early flowering garden plants survived the crazy weather we had late last month.
What better way to signal the end of winter than the bright pink, purple and white blossoms of our favorite landscape...
Published on Thursday, April 04, 2013
There’s the saying, “April showers bring May flowers.” In Atlanta, we are actually halfway through the time of the year when we see the most rain. Statistics show that north Georgia’s rainy season begins in February and continues through April. Now that the weather is beginning to consistently warm up, our lawn and garden plants will come out of dormancy and begin to rapidly grow. It takes a thoughtful lawn caregiver,...
Published on Thursday, March 28, 2013
March 2013 has definitely been a challenge for Atlanta Area plants. Prior to March, Northern Georgia enjoyed another mild winter with temperatures averaging 49 degrees. Do you remember, a few weeks ago, we enjoyed a week of extremely warm temperatures in the mid to upper 70s? Now for the past few days, Northern Georgia temperatures have plummeted below freezing. This “yo-yoing” in temperature has us concerned over its effect on our garden plants and landscapes. To perform...
Published on Thursday, March 21, 2013
The 2013 Southeastern Flower Show was an amazing experience for the whole Bloom’n Gardens team. We can’t get over the overwhelming response to our garden display, “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue.” Our interpretation of the show’s theme, “What’s Old is New Again”, means that a landscape can be installed in a matter of days but a garden takes time to grow. In our garden, we incorporated the old with...