Get Your Backyard Football Party Ready!

August 5, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

It’s no secret that football in the south is near cult-like. SEC football is right around the corner! If you’re looking to optimize your backyard space for the best tailgate party in town, Legacy Group of Winder, GA, can help get your outdoor living space in championship shape. Whether it is outdoor kitchens, water features, pools, or outdoor kitchens we are up for the challenge! If you’re looking to make your house the place to be this season, here are some of our recommendations on the best additions to your backyard!

Fireplaces

Our team specializes in custom stone and brick working including fireplaces and fire pits that are the perfect accompaniment for Saturdays down south once that cold fall weather shows up late in the season.

Lighting

Our design/build team can also take care of all your lighting needs to ensure you and your guests aren’t sitting outside in the dark when your team goes into overtime long after the sun goes down. Unfortunately, we may not be able to install stadium caliber lighting in your backyard. We wish we could. That’d be awesome. Your neighbors probably wouldn’t like it, but they’d all be over at in your awesome new backyard anyways.

Pools

Although football season goes well into the cold weather, it takes a while to get there. It can easily be close to 100* or more when the season kicks off. What better place to watch a game than the pool? Legacy Group, Inc. can custom design and build a pool to meet your personal needs and lifestyle!

If you want to start a new tradition this season by getting your backyard into game-ready condition, give Legacy Group GA a call at (678) 425-2298 today!

Dealing With Mosquitos with Legacy Group

July 22, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

It’s finally dark. It’s just now become cool enough to emerge from your air-conditioned house to enjoy your beautiful backyard and not pass out from the Georgia heat for the first time today. Relaxing, right?

Until the mosquitos show up.

Mosquitoes can carry ZIKA, West Nile Virus, and many more diseases. The unfortunate truth is that this list of illnesses keeps growing. Atlanta consistently ranks among the top of the list for the most mosquito-infested cities in the United States. It’s an impressive dynasty that we Georgians unfortunately get to live in the shadow of.

How can you possibly fight such a rampant force of nature?

By calling Legacy Lawn Care in Winder, GA, of course!

Our goal is to eradicate the mosquitoes currently existing in your yard and to prevent future invasions going forward with our 5 step Legacy Lawn Care’s Mosquito Shield Program.

In the meantime, we want to give you a couple tips to deal with those pesky mosquitos:

Repellents – If you’re looking for a bug spray, keep in mind that mosquitos hate citronella, cloves, eucalyptus, and lavender

Mosquito Bites – If you’re tired of the constant itch that comes from being bitten by those nuisances, try applying a lemon slice or apple cider vinegar directly to the affected area!

If you’d like to stop being itchy after every time you go outside, give us a call at (678) 425-2298 to schedule your mosquito treatment!

Keep Your Lawn Green With These Tips

July 8, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

Don’t you want everyone in your neighborhood to think your grass is the greenest? Here are some tips to ensure that it is!

1. Mowing

Don’t cut your grass too short. Lawns should be cut no more than once a week and should be cut with growing room in mind. If you happen to be cutting your lawn yourself, make sure your blades are nice and sharp, jagged grass leaves room for lawn disease as well as fungal spores.

2. Watering

Lawns need plenty of water to prevent fungal spores and to stay looking fresh. We recommend watering your lawn first thing in the morning so it has plenty of time to dry throughout the day. Fertilizer is key as well, make sure you are using a fertilizer that is meant for your type of grass on your lawn.

3. Aerating

Grass needs to breathe. Aeration is a critical part of overall lawn health. Aerating your lawn helps to ensure that plenty of moisture is getting down to the roots as well as oxygen. This process is critical in stimulating new growth of the green grass you’ve worked so hard to cultivate!

In addition to these tips, treating for weeds is crucial. Our professionals are trained on the seasonality of particular weeds as well as the lifecycle of grass and how it pertains to your lawn. We offer fertilization as well as weed control plans throughout the year to ensure your lawn is being cared for appropriately during each season. The life your lawn is cyclical and needs to be constantly prepared for the next stage so it will look its best. Legacy Group is not just about keeping your grass green right now, we’re here to make sure your grass is green year after year.

From the CDC: Mosquito Bite Prevention

June 17, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

Aside from being itchy and annoying, the bite of an infected female mosquito can spread diseases. Here are the facts from the CDC:

• Female mosquitoes lay several hundred eggs on the walls of water-filled containers. Eggs stick to containers like glue and remain attached until they are scrubbed off. When water covers the eggs, they hatch and become adults in about a week.

• They prefer to bite during the day.

• A few infected mosquitoes can produce large outbreaks in a community and put your family at risk of becoming sick. Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Community from Mosquitoes 1. Eliminate standing water in and around your home:

• Once a week, empty and scrub, turn over, cover, or throw out items that hold water, such as tires, buckets, planters, toys, pools, birdbaths, flowerpots, or trash containers. Check inside and outside your home.

• Tightly cover water storage containers (buckets, cisterns, rain barrels) so that mosquitoes cannot get inside to lay eggs.

• For containers without lids, use wire mesh with holes smaller than an adult mosquito

We don’t take mosquito bites lightly. Get protected today with our Mosquito Shield Program!

Georgia Summer Lawn Tips

June 8, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

The hot Georgia summer comes with many benefits, including nights spent outside chatting with neighbors and days filled with outdoor activities. However, the heat also brings some drawbacks, and your lawn may suffer as a result. Instead of surrendering to Mother Nature, keep some tips in mind to maintain your lawn through the season.

Hire Professionals

Taking care of your lawn by yourself is a tremendous task, especially when the fiery sun beats down upon your back. Even if you were raised to maintain your own lawn, consider breaking from tradition and allowing the experts to do the work. You can rest assured that your lawn will still look beautiful, and you’ll have more time to enjoy the weather.

Summer Treatments

Not only do you need to hire a team that knows how to tend to a lawn, but you also have to pick one that has a specific plan for the summer season. Lawns aren’t all the same, and the professionals will tend to your lawn’s specific needs; they also use a method that involves fertilization and weed control to ensure that the lawn stays both beautiful and healthy even in the harsh climate.

Protect Traffic-dense Spaces

When the sun is shining, the kids probably want to play outside, and you likely have relatives and friends over for barbecues. However, this extra traffic can do damage to your lawn. Consider putting down stones or brick on a few areas to direct the traffic away from the grass and toward the hard surfaces.

Whatever steps you take, knowing your lawn and paying attention to shifts in weather patterns is important. One particular method might not work for your lawn, or you may need to revise it in order to deal with inclement weather conditions.

4 Reasons to Hire a Landscaper

May 20, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

Installing and maintaining a beautiful and successful landscape can be a challenge. Not only does keeping up with a healthy lawn and garden take time, but it also requires knowledge of the plants, trees and other vegetation that you are using. Too often, homeowners become overwhelmed with the task of maintaining their landscape and let it fall to the wayside.

Here are 4 reasons on why many Georgia residents have turned to Legacy Group’s professional landscape service for a beautiful, well planned lawn and garden:

1. Saves You Time

Depending on how large and elaborate your landscape is, it can take quite a bit of time to keep up with it. When you are not able to spend the right amount of time taking care of your landscape, it can quickly become overrun and out of control. By using a professional landscaper, you will save yourself time that you could be spending in other areas of your life.

2. Knowledge and Expertise

We are very familiar with what components work and don’t work for a Georgia landscape. When you work with Legacy Group, you will know with confidence that the flowers, trees and shrubs that we plant will be a great fit for your yard and the Georgia climate.

3. Healthy Yard

Between planting, watering and maintaining a landscape, there are plenty of mistakes that can be made that can be detrimental to the health of your yard and garden. We will give you peace of mind that your landscape is healthy and thriving. You can avoid any stress you might feel about having to save a dying tree or growing a healthy lawn.

4. Enjoy your Lawn and Outdoors

Summer is quickly approaching! So whether you find yourself entertaining others at your home or just enjoying some time to yourself, an attractive and healthy garden and landscape can make a huge difference. It’s tough to relax on your back patio when you are surrounded by overgrown plants and shrubs or dried and dead grass. You will find that you enjoy your home so much more when you have a beautiful landscape in both the front and back yards of your home.

To find out more about the services Legacy Group has to offer, give us a call today at (678) 425-2298.

Increase your Home’s Value

May 6, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

There is no doubt that Walton, Oconee and Gwinnett County are experiencing a revived housing boom. There are housing development signs at all major intersections, and houses seem to be selling quickly after being listed. If you are thinking about selling your home with the market that seems to be picking up pace, then consider upgrading or updating your landscaping.

Curb Appeal

Ask any realtor and they will explain that most potential homebuyers expect inventory homes to need a little work on the inside. Often a fresh coat or color of paint, or new flooring is anticipated as purchasers attempt to make their new home their own. However, the less a buyer will need to do on the outside is an added bonus. As a previous post has discussed, a beautiful front yard will help catch a potential buyer’s eye in the form of curb appeal, but a functional backyard will sell itself as well. Think of the added value that a fieldstone or brick paver patio will provide. Whether looking for a complete design overhaul, adding color with a flowers, or simply cleaning up the outdoor living space to allow for more curb appeal, our professional landscapers are more than qualified.

Added Home Value

Investing in landscaping is a great way to not only add curb appeal, but also to Increase a home’s value. According to the American Society of Landscape Architects, a landscape that is pleasing to the eye, user friendly, and highlights features of the home itself, can increase your home’s value from 5% to 20%.

If you are preparing to sell your home and need to update your landscaping, contact Legacy Group as soon as possible. We will provide all you need to add curb appeal and help make your home more sellable from the outside.

Mosquito Control: Best Ways To Repel Mosquitoes In Your Yard

April 22, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

As the temperatures in Winder, Georgia continue to rise, so do the mosquito count. These tried and true mosquito-fighting techniques will help rid you of mosquitos and help you enjoy the outdoors again.

Buy bug spray and use it.

Do not spray it on your clothes and do not slather it on your skin. Just apply lightly. What kind to buy? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends brands with Deet or Picaridin. Reapply according to the instructions.

Remove standing water.

Mosquitoes live to reproduce, but they have to have standing water to lay their eggs. If you have stagnant water in your backyard, you might as well buy towels and curtains for your mosquito nursery. Tires, toys, gutters, pet dishes, plant saucers, bird baths, leaky outdoor faucets, even air-conditioning drains all are likely spots for mosquito larvae. Survey your property frequently. Empty any items that hold water.

Light clothes will help!

Wear light-colored clothing, preferably pants and shirts with long sleeves.

If you’ve tried these steps but you still have swarms of mosquitoes in your yard, call Legacy Group to solve the problem. Our experts will rid your yard of mosquitoes so you can enjoy your yard again!

Add Spring Color to your Garden

April 8, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

As the pollen counts rise and winter officially transitions into Spring, it’s time to add color and beauty to your Georgia garden. Here are a few ways we love to show off the many faces of Spring:

Tulips: Their vibrant colors last but a week and though fleeting they are worth the wait. Tulips come in an incredible variety of colors, height, and flower shapes. Some Tulips are even fragrant.

Creeping phlox: This low growing, clay-soil loving, variety of phlox is the first mass bloomer of spring. Mature plants are like magic carpets of color. Plant them in a sunny spot.

Bearded iris: Iris come in every color, and multi-color combinations. Their aroma is like a dip in a lilac pond.

Pulmonaria and Solomon’s seal: This is a combination for anyone with dry shade that thought they could not have nice spring flowers. The Pulmonaria have striking foliage and mystical blue flowers in mid April. During this show your Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum) will be starting to spring forth. By mid-May the Solomon’s seal will flower and have blooms that look more like dancing bells floating below the leaves in a long string of subtle showiness.

Ajuga: This ground cover is showiest in the worst of soils and shady conditions. It thrives in a multitude of conditions and will even take on a bit of east or northeast sun. A great ground cover for tough spots, in spring it magically explodes with bunches of 4-6 inch spikes of purplish-blue flowers.

American Dogwood: This tree is making a comeback after a severe infection linked to cool, wet spring and fall weather. Drought and winter injury weaken trees and increase disease severity. Make sure you put a slow water drip on these trees in dry summer weather. Refrain from watering in spring when possible. And replant these valuable trees, as many have been lost to this infection both in cultivation and throughout our local forests. There is nothing more breathtakingly stunning than a solitary, mature dogwood in full bloom. Amazing.

Need help adding a burst of color to your garden? We’d love to help you. Give us a call for a free consultation today.

Have a Crabgrass Problem? We Can Help.

March 25, 2016 by Taylor McGlamery

Crabgrass is usually blamed for any persistent weeds or unwanted grass that grows in someone’s manicured lawn.

There are several types of weeds that look similar to crabgrass, and the treatments for them are also similar. If the problem you are experiencing is truly caused by crabgrass, there are some things you can do to help get rid of the prolific weed and rescue your lawn:

Using Pre-Emergent Treatments

There are several pre-emergent treatments that you can purchase from a good lawn and garden store. The best time to use a pre-emergent is in the early spring before the grass has begun to develop. Crabgrass doesn’t begin growing until the weather is consistently hot, so you have plenty of time to apply a treatment before the growing season begins.

If you have experienced crabgrass problems before, you will know which areas of your yard are more likely to grow crabgrass again. Concentrate your treatments on those areas specifically so that the crabgrass won’t have a chance to gain a foothold as the summer progresses.

Late Season Crabgrass

Once crabgrass emerges in the late summer there is not much you can do to get rid of it. If you are really interested in making it go away, it is possible to pull crabgrass out by hand. This can be a time consuming process that takes a lot of work, but it will eventually get all of the crabgrass out of your yard. Make sure you treat the area that was filled with crabgrass as soon as possible after you have pulled it up. It doesn’t take long for crabgrass seeds to germinate and begin to grow again.

Use a pre-emergent treatment or good mulch to keep the seeds from becoming healthy and growing more crabgrass in an area you have already pulled from.

The Problem with Herbicides

The best way to combat crabgrass is to treat your lawn before the weed begins to emerge in the early summer or pull the crabgrass up by hand after it emerges. Crabgrass tends to gravitate toward sunny, dry spots in your lawn, which means that using plenty of water can also help keep your lawn intact.

Crabgrass is an annual weed, so it will die off every year during the first frost. You can take advantage of that time to lay down the pre-emergent that will stop the crabgrass from coming back next season.

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