Real Estate Staging with Gardens

The words real estate staging have become popular buzz words for one good reason. It works! Staging is the act of arranging homes in such a way as to attract increased buyer interest.

First impressions make all the difference in the world when it comes to selling your home, and nothing makes a first impression like well-groomed landscape and a beautiful garden. Striking landscaping and an inspiring garden can make the difference in how quickly your home sells and can in some cases can command higher prices.

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Gardens That Help Sell Your Home
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Advantages to Installing a Rain Garden

A rain garden is a planted depression that absorbs rainwater quickly. Typically they consist of plants native to your area that are naturally used to fluctuating conditions. In areas where sidewalks, driveways, streets, and concrete foundations are prevalent, water runoff and absorption become a problem. In such conditions, water during a rain storm can pick up many pollutants as well as add to erosion and flooding. This can be a damaging proposition to the environment, your yard, and even your basement, necessitating expensive repairs.

Creating a rain garden will help to prevent contaminated storm water from entering the water supply as well as creating a pleasant garden in your yard.

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Deter Birds From Plundering Your Flowers and Plants

So you've got your pots planted, your flower baskets hanging, and your entry ways, sidewalks, and back porch decked out with beautiful flowers and plants. It's wonderful, now you can sit back and relax, enjoying the sights and smells in the morning with a cup of coffee and a good book...Ahhhh.

But wait a minute, looking closer at your newly planted gems. Why is it that some of your plants seem to be thinning. That nice tea plant for example has a couple leaves on the top, but is now mostly just a stick. And several flower blossoms are handing broken or missing all together.

Those dastardly birds have done it to you again.

Bird watching can be enjoyable, but it's not so much fun to watch them ruin your flowers, plants, and all your hard work making the container garden look nice. Your lush new garden is truly irresistible to birds of all kinds, as they look for a perfect nest or the material to make a nest. However, there are plenty of plants in the wild for them to choose from...elsewhere.


So now your garden becomes a battle ground. You find yourself chasing the birds off every time they swoop in for an attack, or you've armed your lawn chair with a handy new weapon called a garden hose and you're constantly on alert. This may work for the moment, but it's not very relaxing and you can be certain, those pillaging birds will be back.

There's an easier way to battle the birds, it's simple, inexpensive, and does all the work for you. Go out to the store and get yourself a few nice shinny pinwheels. Birds don't like the reflection and motion of these guardians of the garden and they work amazingly well. In no time, your garden hose will be back where it belongs, and you'll be back to the serenity of your garden with your coffee and book.

Unfortunately on the horizon there lurks new enemies of the garden. Pinwheels don't do anything to keep away aphids or Japanese beetles... but that's a story for another day.

Recent Garden Projects

Garden Nanny's have been playing in the dirt to keep our client's gardens looking beautiful. Here's a few projects we've been working on. View our gardening services to see how we can beautify your garden, then give us a call at 630-450-1251.

Project 1
Under tree shade garden - soil erosion and root control maintenance.

Project 2
Garden winter clean-up - invasive weed removal, general weeding and pruning of shrubs and spring bulbs.

Project 3
Established a pool perimeter garden and provided thinning and weeding maintenance on a perennial garden.

Project 4
Designed and installed a balcony container garden.

Garden Of The Future

This next post is a little off the beaten path. Imaging the garden of the future you can envision scenes from your favorite Star Wars moving coming to life as Uncle Own and Luke discuss the harvest and how the droids will help them so Luke can run off to join the force! While Star Wars may be science fiction ...these droids are now reality and improving rapidly. The "corn planting robot" was from a 2008 competition without a driver steering from the sidelines.. The New AI robot is due out next spring and will deliver a new technological alternative for moving stock, watering, disease and pest control. While this technology may replace the need for your "Garden Nanny"...we can't help but think what fun it will be to have your own droid helping you around the house with vital chores and tasks.

Field Robot Event 2008.


Harvest Automation robots.