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Prepare Some Firewood Before Winter Comes

Prepare Some Firewood Before Winter Comes

As cold weather approaches, it’s nice to think about putting your feet next to a warm fireplace while listening to wood crackling as it slowly burns. To make this happen, you would need some firewood. It might seem as easy as picking a pile of chopped lumber, but...
DIY Landscaping Ideas

DIY Landscaping Ideas

Landscaping is becoming one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States, employing approximately 1,000,000 people and generating $88 billion in revenue. While many homeowners desire a beautiful yard, not all are willing to hire professionals to achieve it....
Does Mulch Attract Termites?

Does Mulch Attract Termites?

Mulch is a popular choice for gardeners and homeowners alike, offering benefits such as moisture retention, weed suppression, and aesthetic appeal. However, a common concern is whether mulch attracts termites, posing a risk to homes and structures. This blog will...
What is Garden Soil?

What is Garden Soil?

Understanding the type of soil you use in your garden is crucial for the success of your plants. Soil serves as the foundation for plant growth, providing essential nutrients, water, and support for roots. So what is garden soil and how is it different from topsoil?...
What is the Best Gravel for a French Drain?

What is the Best Gravel for a French Drain?

Installing a French drain is a highly effective solution for managing water around your property. But to ensure its effectiveness, choosing the right type of gravel is crucial. At Saunders Landscape Supply, we recommend two primary types of gravel for French drains:...
How to Create a Pea Gravel Sub-Base for Concrete

How to Create a Pea Gravel Sub-Base for Concrete

Creating a pea gravel sub-base for your concrete slab is a straightforward process that involves several critical steps to ensure the stability and longevity of your concrete. Here’s a detailed guide to help you through the process: Materials Needed: Pea gravel...
Drought-Resistant Landscaping for Businesses

Drought-Resistant Landscaping for Businesses

Due to increasing environmental challenges and water scarcity, businesses are turning to drought-resistant landscaping as a sustainable and practical solution. This approach conserves water and reduces maintenance costs and enhances curb appeal, making it an...
Lawn Care Essentials for a Healthy, Green Yard

Lawn Care Essentials for a Healthy, Green Yard

Maintaining a healthy, green lawn is a rewarding task that enhances the beauty and environmental quality of your home. Proper lawn care involves understanding the specific needs of your grass and soil, and implementing a consistent maintenance routine. This...
5 Mulch Types and Their Benefits for Your Garden

5 Mulch Types and Their Benefits for Your Garden

Gardening is both an art and a science, with each decision impacting the health and beauty of your garden. One such crucial decision is the selection of mulch. Mulching not only enhances the visual appeal of your garden but also plays a vital role in maintaining soil...
What is the Best Gravel for Drainage?

What is the Best Gravel for Drainage?

We often get the question, what is the best gravel for drainage? We offer quite a few great options with bulk delivery right to your driveway, so it’s not surprising customers need help choosing. The fact is that pea gravel is the best gravel for drainage....
The Hardwood Mulch Difference

The Hardwood Mulch Difference

We’re all anticipating the end of the blazing summer heat and the start of fall. First things first. While you take the time to select the kind of mulch to use and schedule a mulch delivery, just leave things be! Find out the double shredded difference and...
Drought-Resistant Landscaping for Businesses

Mulch is Essential for Fall

Most of us use mulch when planting new plants to help them grow, and in flower beds to keep weeds from growing as much. However, mulch is one of the most essential steps for fall. In fact, mulching can be the difference between life and death for some of your plants....
5 Tips to Maintain Your Gravel Driveway

5 Tips to Maintain Your Gravel Driveway

For many homeowners, the allure of a gravel driveway lies in its reasonable cost, and long-lasting nature. Gravel, indeed, is one of our top-selling products, its popularity owing to an array of reasons. As an economical yet high-quality solution, a gravel driveway is...
The Possibilities of Pea Gravel!

The Possibilities of Pea Gravel!

Now’s the perfect time to pull out the pea gravel to add some natural beauty and function to your yard. The options are endless with this small round stone. Smoothed by a body of water, pea gravel measures between approximately 3/8”-3/4” in diameter and is a versatile...
What is the Right Compost Recipe?

What is the Right Compost Recipe?

You might have heard about using compost for your lawn or garden. That is a great use that is recommended to have healthy soil for plants and grass to grow. But it’s important to know the different types of compost that are available. Some composts are...
How to Build a Simple Compost Bin in 6 Steps

How to Build a Simple Compost Bin in 6 Steps

Compost is an extraordinary product that has a huge amount of uses. Adding compost to your soil will always benefit it and help it to improve, and will add the extra nutrients your plants and flowers need to thrive. Additionally, because compost contains humic and...
Drought-Resistant Landscaping for Businesses

Organic mulch vs. Inorganic mulch

Mulch is any material applied to the surface of topsoil to protect and aesthetically improve the area covered. There are two categories of mulch: organic and inorganic. Organic Mulch Organic mulch can be made of many naturally occurring substances. Hardwood mulch and...
3 Green Landscaping Tips

3 Green Landscaping Tips

Are you practicing green landscaping? Environmental responsibility is not something people often think about when they begin to dig up dirt and plant trees and bushes around their home. However, green landscaping can have a profound impact on the local environs....
Drought-Resistant Landscaping for Businesses

Does Mulch Go Bad?

When people first start landscaping, their minds almost immediately go to the image of a well-manicured lawn, with some flowers, trees, and bushes. And often, when that image comes to mind, so does the image of mulch, which is often put around trees and other...
Does Mulch Attract Termites?

Use Color Enhanced Mulch to Create a Stunning Yard

One of the best things about color-enhanced mulch is the gorgeous color and contrast that it brings to your lawn and home. It gives you the flexibility to create the landscaping look you love, and makes flower beds and trees really “pop.” Talk about curb appeal!...
The Wonders of Cedar Mulch

The Wonders of Cedar Mulch

Mulch is the organic material — typically shredded or chipped wood or bark, cocoa shells, pine needles or grass clippings — used in garden and landscape beds. Once your garden bed is prepared and the plants are placed, two to three inches of mulch layered on top of...
How to Build a Simple Compost Bin in 6 Steps

All About Compost

Gardening is a great weekend activity for homeowners who want to keep their yards looking clean and attractive, and it is becoming a more popular hobby. Almost 50% of people in the U.S. have gardened in the past year. Gardening can improve your home’s value,...
Tips to Start Spring Landscaping Off Right

Tips to Start Spring Landscaping Off Right

As February ends and March begins, it becomes the ideal time to start a healthy lawn. It is important to take advantage of this window between Winter and Spring to simply prepare your lawn for sunny Springtime! These preparation methods will ensure that your yard is...
5 Mulch Types and Their Benefits for Your Garden

Mulching Around Trees

Trees drink a lot of water, especially big trees.  And the more they drink, the less water is available for other greenery nearby.  The result?  Ugly, brown, barren soil in a widening circle around the base of your larger trees.  No matter what you...
How Can You Ensure a Successful Grass Planting?

How Can You Ensure a Successful Grass Planting?

Whether you reside in the Deep South with hot and humid summers or in the Northeast with long and cold winters, one thing we all have in common is the desire to grow a luscious and green glowing lawn.  What’s a better way to impress the neighbors than to have a full...
Why Firewood Beats Other Heating Options

Why Firewood Beats Other Heating Options

Staying warm in the fall and winter can be accomplished in a number of ways. For instance, you could wear warm clothing throughout the house or use a thick blanket, but this is not always enough for the extremely cold days and nights. Plenty of homeowners resort to...
How to Build a Simple Compost Bin in 6 Steps

Fill Dirt Vs Topsoil

Sadly, dirt’s reputation has been unfairly soiled. And don’t get us started on soil’s reputation. It is, without a doubt, the most important substance to human existence on this planet. Yet we think about it monolithically when, in fact, the differences in types of...
5 Tips to Maintain Your Gravel Driveway

Using Our Gravel Calculator

No matter what home improvement project you’re looking to complete, you’ll nearly always find yourself using some variety of small stones. Gravel is one of the most versatile construction materials available. Whether it’s pebbles for an outdoor patio, conventional...
How Native Plants Benefit Our Clients’ Landscapes

Helping Your Garden Grow in the Summer

Ahh, summer. Hopefully you’re enjoying a few lazy summer days in the hammock and feeling pretty refreshed. It’s also a great time to refresh your garden—or even add a new one. Summer Garden Tips Adding new plants Hearty produce like sweet potato leaves, Perpetual and...

Core Aeration Cures Rainy Season Woes

With the hot months of summer behind us, it’s time for homeowners to turn their attention to what’s shaping up to be a very wet autumn. Yards with underlying soil compaction issues, impenetrable grass or serious thatch accumulation can see poor drainage and sickly...
What Can I Do with Fieldstones?

What Can I Do with Fieldstones?

When we are doing landscaping projects, we learn a lot of new terms. One of them may be fieldstones. What even are fieldstones? Stones that come from fields? Well, you’d be partially correct. Fieldstones are naturally occurring rocks that are originally found near the...
What is the Right Compost Recipe?

Composting Brings Life Back in Your Soil

Are you interested in giving your landscaping or garden new life? Compost literally does just that.  Not only will it rejuvenate soil with a dose of nutrients but compost also brings beneficial bacteria and fungi back into your garden beds or orchards, jump starting...
How to Build a Butterfly Garden

Three Lawn Alternatives That Are Better Than Grass

With the right landscaping, Americans may never have to mow their grass again. Of course, that means considerably less time devoted to sweaty manual labor — and it means less fertilizer, less water, and a vastly more sustainable lawn. What’s the secret?...
A Head-Turning Lawn with Organic Topsoil

A Head-Turning Lawn with Organic Topsoil

Don’t celebrate yet, but it seems spring is finally here! After the winter we endured, it’s especially important now to give your lawn TLC to ensure lush and healthy growth in the next few weeks. Organic topsoil is one of the most important steps in this preparation....
The Many Uses of Wood Chips

The Many Uses of Wood Chips

The many uses of wood chips! Not only are they in abundant supply (from road crews, electric companies, and tree service companies) but they’re also easy and tempting to use them everywhere. Here are the top places we’ve see them used. Mulch with Wood Chips Old,...
Drought-Resistant Landscaping for Businesses

How to Measure for Bulk Materials

The first step when beginning any new project that needs bulk materials is measuring how much material you need. You do will not want to run out of material half way through the project and need to reorder more, nor would you want to finish and realize that you have...
What is the best landscaping stone?

What is the best landscaping stone?

When designing your landscaping, you have to think outside of the traditional features. Think beyond the flora and fauna, beyond the fencing. Look into the small details of your yard — because, surprisingly, that is what people will notice the most. These small...
What is the Best Gravel for a French Drain?

How Much Rock Do I Need?

Whether you are looking for gravel for a driveway, recycled concrete for a pathway, or pebbles for a flower bed, Saunders Landscape Supply is here to help you. We have a large variety of rocks available, but what all these different types have in common is their...
Where Can I Get Free Mulch?

Where Can I Get Free Mulch?

Often we get the question from homeowners: Where can I get free mulch? There are more than 400,000 U.S. landscaping companies, and some produce so many wood chips that they’re literally giving mulch away for free. Other landscaping services will offer to dump...
How to Build a Rock Patio

How to Build a Rock Patio

If you are looking for a beautiful yet simple addition to your yard that you can make yourself, then check out this guide for how to build your own rock patio. Sure, a grassy area on your property is fine, but why not take it up a notch and transform your space into...