This video blog is about the Bottlebrush shrub (sometimes called Little John), but the botanical name is “Callistemon”. The best way to describe this shrub is small to medium sized with thick dense dark green foliage with pretty small red blooms that look like little bottlebrushes.
The Cape Honeysuckle shrub (Tacoma Caopensis) is a great desert shrub for the Arizona climate. This shrub has a small dark leaf that grows thick and dense to make a great shrub or hedge.
This video blog is about transplanting trees or shrubs here in Phoenix. Most of the time we try to discourage transplanting for our clients here at AMS Landscaping for 2 reasons.
Recently we have hit 100 degree plus days here in Phoenix, Arizona. Anytime the temperature gets above 100°, we typically water on average with pop-up sprinklers for 15 to 20 minute per cycle, 5 to 6 days per week.
AMS Landscaping now offers instant landscape maintenance and cleanup estimates for residents in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Glendale and Peoria.
The official date is June 15 here in Phoenix for the monsoon season. It’s also the month that you want to have all your palm trees trimmed.
This video blog is about what to buy and how to mix and apply the weed treatment to kill weeds the way a landscaper does it.
When your landscaping vegetation is close to your pool it will require more chemicals to keep it blue and clean. I asked Chad Nikkel with Aquaman Pools to talk further about this.
Tree staking is vital when first planting a tree here in Phoenix so that the young trunk of the tree is not damaged from a storm or any high winds. See this blog on how to properly stake a tree.
This video shows 10 year old Shamel Ash trees (botanical name Fraxinus uhdei) in turf areas that have grown to be about 40-50 feet in height with a 40 foot diameter.
