Friday, June 10, 2011

Annuals season too!

Although the season to BUY annual flowers is closing down (yep, buy them from March-June), it is totally time to enjoy them!!
I wanted to share some pictures of combo pots we've designed and installed at customers' houses.

One of the tips to successful combo pots is to always make seasonal pots. Don't try to create one pot for the entire spring and summer. Most successful pots will have a spring, cool season look- like pansies, lobelia, snapdragons, ornamental kales/cabbages and traditional petunias. Replace those with warm season bloomers in May or June- supertunias, coleus, sweet potato vines, tropical flowers (like canna and papyrus), angelonia, herbs, etc. For fall, pick up mums, grasses and back to cool season plants.
Canna, angelonia, sweet potato vine

Look at the combo of begonia and purple Supertunias!

King Tut papyrus, sweet potato vine and bordeaux Supertunias!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

It's pool season... if you haven't noticed!

In reference to the last post, this is our team spraying concrete into a pool form. It is a Raintree Montessori school, here in Lawrence KS. If you have questions, feel free to visit the Midwest Custom Pool site. Or call Lawrence Landscape- we'll get you pointed in the right direction!

May 26, 2011

Hydraulic concrete pump shooting out a pool liner. Check this out on YouTube!
This is at Raintree Montessori in Lawrence KS. Very exciting stuff....