Terry L. Ettinger Horticulture Consulting Services
Meeting The Needs Of Today With A Vision For The Future
Landscape and
Lawn Management Services
It's not at all unusual for a residential
landscape to contain more than 100 different plant species and
several hundred to several thousand individual plants. And, if
that's not impressive enough, a typical lawn may consist
of well over 10 million individual grass plants! Of course,
in an institutional or corporate campus setting, these numbers can
be multiplied many times!
Therefore, it's easy to understand that every lawn and landscape represents a very complex ecosystem.
This ecosystem includes not only every tree, shrub,
herbaceous perennial, ornamental grass, spring-flowering bulb,
potted annual, etc. - but also every possible insect, disease and
weed that might effect their growth and development! Also effecting
this ecosystem are numerous abiotic, or non-living factors
including soil conditions, weather extremes, mechanical damage from
lawn mowers and snow plows, and landscape installation and
maintenance practices.
When something isn't growing well in the ecosystem you know as your lawn and landscape, I can help you determine what's wrong - and offer recommendations for correcting the problem.
To learn more, click on any of the links at right.
By the way, the creepy-looking critters in the picture above aren't harmful at all - they're just-hatched ladybug larvae (babies)! In fact, a favorite food of ladybug larvae and adults are plant-damaging aphids.