Well, it looks like the cold weather has finally found us here in sunny Central Florida! This is just a friendly reminder from your local landscape experts to take care of your plants as the weather changes. While we do not have too many nights where it is cold enough...
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Healthy in the New Year!
Welcome to the New Year! All of us here at John Madison Landscape hope that you had a very happy holiday season and are excited about the prospects that come with the beginning of a new year. If you found yourself making New Year’s resolutions while you were watching...
The History of Your Favorite Holiday Plants
Break out the extension cords and Christmas lights. Its that time of year again! Christmas time is ripe with excitement and tradition. Although you may not have realized it, plants are a big part of that tradition. From Christmas trees to Christmas...
Let Your Property’s Elevation Change Be Its Greatest Feature!
Florida is flat. This makes tasks like building roads or homes much easier than in other areas of the country where elevation change is more substantial. When it comes to landscape, however, grade change can present lots of opportunities for creative solutions....
How to tell if your tree is sick, dying, or dead:
In honor of flu season and everyone who has fallen prey to winter illness, here at John Madison Landscape, we thought we would help you to more easily tell if your tree is healthy, sick, or dying. Keep in mind that it is winter, so many of your trees will have shed...
Hardscape Solutions
As the month of November quickly comes to an end, you are probably noticing the change in the weather and looking for excuses to spend time out of doors. In Florida, the weather affords us the opportunity to use our outdoor patio space year-round. With the holiday...
Halloween Landscaping
Now that it's October here in Central Florida, the buzz about fall can be heard all around. Everywhere from Starbucks to the theme parks, pumpkin fragrances and the talk of autumn can be found, even if the weather doesn't quite feel like it yet! Along with the month...
Sod varieties
There are 3 main varieties of sod that we at John Madison Landscape typically install. It is important for homeowners to know the difference between all three so that we can help them determine what will meet their needs and work best in their yard. For example, does...
Growing a Florida-friendly yard
If you're like most people that live in the Central Florida area, you probably weren't born here. Us "transplants" have had to adapt to many things that come along with living in Central Florida, and one of those is how and what we garden! The hot and wet climate we...