Tips & Tricks

Smart Landscape Design Tips

Is it possible to design beautiful and useful landscapes when you are not a formally trained designer? Yes! Below are terrific tips on how to design a landscape with confidence.

Give These Suggestions to Your Clients

Many are at a loss when it comes to the outdoor landscaping. That’s why it’s so important to have a couple yard suggestions handy for when a homeowner looks for guidance in making the outdoor design decisions.

May Lawn & Garden To-Do List!

Across all regions of the United States, May is a very active landscaping and gardening month. Check out a dozen smart tips to bring your May landscape into all its glory.

How to Grow Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental grasses offer a fantastic low maintenance and sustainable solution for landscaping design that offer drought tolerance and long life. Here are some tips on how to grow them!

Why You Should Raise Your Lawn Mower Cutting Height

Turf grass can actually be one of the most important and traditional components of a landscape. Learn more here:

Composting 101

Compost is one of the best ways to add magical microbes and healthy nutrients to your gardens and landscaping. Soil that is rich with natural ingredients and a positive microbial activity is the secret to a strong and healthy garden.

How to Keep Your Lawn Healthy When Dealing with Drought Conditions

A little bit of ingenuity and a willingness to change your approach to lawn maintenance can go a long way in helping your grass thrive amidst drought conditions.

3 Ideas to Boost Your Property’s Value this Spring

If you’re a homeowner planning to sell at some point in the future, there are some home improvements that you should consider that will make it more attractive to buyers.

Save Landscape Waste to Reuse in a Garden

Every year countless thousands of spent garden bulbs are tossed in the dumpster after the bulbs make their flowery show. You can save these bulbs and other green waste and reuse it in other landscapes though.

Steps to Design a Water Smart Landscape

Designing a water-smart landscape is based upon the region, or garden zone, you live in. It’s all about conserving water, but also time and money. Here are a few smart rules to follow:

3 Ways to Improve Your Soil and Build a Healthier Landscape

When your soil is healthy, this builds a smart structure for roots. Healthy roots mean happy plants and trees.

Buying a Home: Do You Need a Home Inspection

When you’re buying your next home, whether it’s your first time or your fifth time, you want to ensure that you always get a home inspection. It may look perfect, but you only truly know the property issues when you live in it for an extended period. Read more for home inspection tips.

3 Lawn Watering Mistakes to Avoid

While watering the lawn seems like a straightforward task, it’s actually easy to make mistakes that can hurt the grass. Ensure that your grass is getting the right amount of water in the right way.

Late February Pruning Tips

Pruning can be very good for a shrub or tree if done properly, and late February is a smart time to prune if you are past the worst of cold temperatures in your region and before the trees or shrubs start their spring explosion of growth.

Hillside Landscape Ideas and Solutions

Landscaping a garden on a hillside or as it connects to a hillside can be a huge challenge. Here are a few ideas for hill stabilization from iScape.

How to Choose a Landscape Professional for Your Home

Though it can be rather difficult to bring your landscape ideas to life without the help of the right professionals, iScape’s Hire-A-Designer program can match you up with the perfect landscape professional that will realize your dreams.

10 Tips for Smart Curb Appeal

If you would like to improve your curb appeal, start with a few simple upgrades that will help your home truly shine in your neighborhood.

How to Spruce Up Your Home's Value so You Can Move

Having landscape help from iScape can make your garden projects so much easier and more effective, from planning out your yard to weeding your flower beds.

A New Year’s Resolution for Your Garden

Commit to creating a calm and restful landscape in the place you call home, and design with ease. Only with iScape.

Why Gardening is Good for Your Mental Health

A welcomed development in these most trying of times has been the popularity boom of gardening. And it's good for your well-being!

5 Amazing Landscape Design Tips and Tricks You Must Know

Here are the top 5 ideas that one can use to construct amazing landscape designs.

How to Hang Christmas Lights or the Holiday Season

Put on warm gloves, tuck hand or pocket warmers in your pockets, wear boots that have a grip bottom, and bring a partner to help do your installations.

What Can Landscapers Do in the Winter Besides Plow Snow?

Check out this list of jobs for landscapers that can fill the no-snow void and create opportunity for landscaping teams.

Enable a Smooth Decision-Making and Positive Landscaping Experience

See how iScape enables smooth decision making and a positive landscaping experience with this front yard transformation.

How to Prepare Your Yard for Hurricanes

Learn how to protect your yard from hurricanes and extremely bad weather with these tips.

Lawn Care Basics with Scotts

Fall isn’t just for pumpkin spice and picking apples. It’s also the best time to seed and feed your lawn! Do it the Scotts way.

Resources for Your Personal Lawn Care

Check out over 20 resources that will help everyone from the newest homeowners to the most experienced landscapers.

The Power of Visual Thinking

Especially for landscape businesses, visualizing your client’s ideas as well as the process by which you go about making it a reality is key to a successful relationship.

List of Natural Fertilizers for the Garden Landscape

While there are many fertilizers and soil amendments, below are a few suggestions.

Two Fantastic Erosion Control Shrub Varieties

Below are plant profiles for two erosion control shrubs, which give you all the details on how easy they are to grow.

6 Tips to Build a Solid Landscaping Company

Be a part of that growth with 9 tips that can help you build a solid landscaping company.

3 Smart Hillside Landscape Solutions

Although they can be immensely beautiful, hillside gardens can be challenging. See how easy it is with iScape to plant a terraced garden.

Heat Related Illnesses and First Aid for the Landscape Worker

Whether you are a homeowner or a landscaper, working in the summer heat can lead to heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Below are four types of heat illness and what to do in an emergency.

Beneficial Insects for the Landscape

The real focus of keeping a landscape pest-free should be in retaining and supporting beneficial insects. Find out more here:

Smart Composting Tools

Here are a few composting tools to help you speed up the compost conversion!

How to Plant Perennials

Approaching a homeowner with a smart perennial design where they have time to make decisions on preferred plants is a good plan.

Summer Landscaping Maintenance Tips

With the heat of summer hitting the country hard in mid-July, it is time to think of summer maintenance for the landscape.

Safe Ways to Sell Your Home in a Pandemic

Think selling your home during a pandemic is crazy? Think again! Find out why it's an opportune time to buy and sell.

Success Tips for Your Landscaping Biz

Customizing your landscaping business can make a tremendous difference in how you find success. Below are a few success tips for making your landscaping business run a little more smoothly.

Are You Selling or Are Your Customers Buying?

Here are five ways you can focus on getting your customers to actually buy instead of spending too much time on selling.

Up Productivity with iScape

Check out these apps that can help you increase productivity in design that will work well with iScape.

How to Market Your Lawn Care Business

Making sure your business is a success is important. Here are some surefire ways to help market your lawn care business.

Seeing is Believing: Unlocking a Client's Dreams

We’ve found the key to your customer’s satisfaction, and no more will you have to constantly worry about meeting their needs.

DIY Home Improvements in Quarantine: The Possibilities Are Endless!

Now is as good a time as ever to finally tackle home improvement projects that have always somehow ended up on the back burner.

The Landscape World is Changing

The way landscapers find clients, complete projects, and run their business is being transformed. Here's how to keep up.

Landscape Terminology: What You Need to Know

It’s important to be aware of different terms and yard features that will help you develop a good plan and ensure the end product you are envisioning.

You Don’t Have to Be a Pro to Be Behind the Camera

Sharing images from your beautiful garden or landscape can bring a lot of joy. That’s why iScape has made it super easy for anyone to design like a Pro!

Spring Landscape Checkup

Once winter is passed, it is time to freshen up the landscape and bring some fresh life with a spring clean-up, and our checklist will help you get started.

What Homeowners are Really Looking for

How to keep a sincere relationship with the client and find ways to make it easier for them to stick with you

Considering Buying on a Busy Street?

If you're interested in exploring your options for privacy and and sound baffling, whether you’re a homeowner or landscaper designing a homeowner’s yard, you should consider planting evergreen trees.

Use iScape to Grow Your Business

Thousands of landscape professionals around the globe are using iScape to save time, provide greater value and make more money.

Helpful Tips for Lawn Care Novices

Lawn care novices looking to set the stage for lasting success should put the following pointers to good use.

Show Clients What That Yard Could Look Like Post-Sale

Get your customers excited about their future home before the paperwork is even signed.

Create an Immersive Landscape Design

A step-by-step tutorial of our Augmented Reality feature

It's Not Too Soon To Start Planning For Spring

With a predicted early Spring, get a jumpstart on the neighbors.

Water-Wise Landscaping

Try these tips for easier, less expensive and longer lasting landscaping

Seed Starting 101

Get started on exactly what you want to grow in your yard in the upcoming summer

Landscaper Advice: Dry Basement Solutions

Learn what professional landscapers suggest to keep your basement dry all year round

Sprucing Up Your Home For Impending Sale

By using iScape to make the right choices, you save money and time that you’d rather spend on your NEW home.

Weeds You Can Eliminate Over Winter

Have an itch to get ahead on spring weeding? Here's what you can do

Getting Your Vegetable Garden Ready for Winter

Make your gardening healthier and easier for next year

Create Your Own Winter Pots

Containers that will last long and remain fresh

Winter Yard Hacks

Get ahead now so spring is a breeze

All About Core Aeration

An easy, organic, and economical way to improve your lawn

Landscape Irrigation Water Efficiency

A guide to water-efficient irrigation

5 Things To Do With Your Fallen Leaves

Your Fall 2019 Landscape Checklist

Prepare for the upcoming weather the right way

Transition Your Summer Yard to a Fall Landscape

Consider these transitional steps as Fall comes around!

What Should You Focus More On: Softscapes or Hardscapes?

In the transition to Fall, is there one more important than the other?

5 Fragrant Plants to Add to Your Garden

Landscaping Advice You Wish You Heard Sooner

What's actually right and what's just hype

Landscaping Trends of 2019

What's popular with landscape today

You Can Do It: Drip Irrigation 101

A basic solution to a complicated problem

5 Ways to Start Composting Today

You can do it different ways, but still get the same results!

Don't Flake On Soil Testing

What is it and why you need one

Tips and Tricks for Weed Control

Here are a few tips to help you win the battle against weeds in your yard! #NationalWeedYourGardenDay

Make Life Beautiful with These Easy Yard Maintenance Tips

Here are 5 easy tips that really make an impact on your yard maintenance

Are You Ready to Mow? A Guide to Summer Lawn Mowing

Did you know you might not need to mow every week?

How to Make the Most of National Garden Exercise Day

Plant a garden and get your workout in for the day!

Memorial Weekend Celebration and Discount

Celebrate with iScape Seasonal Pass Discount you won't want to miss!

Tips to Get Your Yard Started

Follow these tips to get your best-looking yard and show it off to family, friends, and neighbors!

You Can Do It: Dividing Perennials

How to avoid patches and get what you paid for!

Garden Elements to Help You Start Your Morning Right

Celebrate National Garden Meditation Day with these special garden elements!

The Pain-Free Way to Plan a Vegetable Garden

Tips for planning a vegetable garden

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Get Ready for Spring

Use these 5 timely tips to prepare for Spring!

What is Raised Bed Gardening?

Learn how you can create your own raised bed garden!

Front Doorscaping: What Is It and How To Do It

Front Doorscaping: What Is It and How To Do It

Quick Perk-Ups for a Patio or Deck

Tips for bringing your deck or patio to life