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Old 04-04-2012, 10:05 AM
Lynn L. Lynn L. is offline
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We too have just closed on our new home on Mayflower Loop and have already contacted a landscaper to do some up-grades. The move in landscaping is designed for colder weather in the winter, and if you want palm trees they have to be mature trees in order to take the cold. Our landscaper is using all the shrubs we currently have, and then building from there. You either pay for it up-front, and have no say in the shrubs, or go with the flow and pick what you want, and use what you have, and together you wind up with a pretty nice package. We moved from Sarasota, FL where many more flowering plants can be used, but some winters in this area can be damaging to those types of plants, costing you lots of $$ each time you have to replant. No plant will be wasted, I am excited to see the finished product. Good time of year to do the landscaping to let the new plants take root. Things grow so fast in FL that you have to be careful not to over plant or you will have a jungle before long.