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By Glenn Jacobsen, Posted in Bergen County Landscape Design Ideas

Fall is here and pretty soon we will begin to see piles of leaves all over Bergen County and Northern New Jersey. Did you know that those leaves falling outside your window are a great raw material for making compost?I can hear it now, “I tried to compost my leaves, but it didn’t work.” The truth is most people have tough time trying to compost leaves, especially if they’ve never done it before. But don’t fret, learning how to compost leaves is not nearly as difficult as you ma... read more.

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By Glenn Jacobsen, Posted in Bergen County Landscape Design Ideas

Foliage plants can be an important part of designing a low-maintenance landscape planting. One of the situations that I face regularly as a designer is a clients request for “year-round color, but it needs to be low maintenance”.  Another popular request is, “I want color, lots and lots of color, but we don’t get much sun here”.  So, as a result of these common requests, I have developed planting strategies for each situation which utilize plants featuring colorf... read more.

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