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The Grapevine Botanical Garden in North Texas provided this Dallas-Fort Worth area homeowner with ideas for the type of landscape they hoped to create around their newly-built custom home. Our designer worked with them to turn their thoughts into a concrete plan with hardscaping features and plant choices that reflected their eco-conscious style and taste while creating an organic, sustainable, low-maintenance lawn and garden.

If your St. Augustine lawn is in poor health it could be infected with Take All Root Rot. It's important to act quickly

With the right landscaping, you can transform an ordinary pool into a private island. Marshall Grain's Landscaping team is here to help.

The ultimate success of your HOA subdivision entrance improvement project depends on finding the right landscape team to work with.

Marshall Grain's Landscape Design & Installation Services team is experienced in working with Home Owners Associations.

The best way to approach designing a butterfly garden is to imaging that we're opening a restaurant for butterflies.

In this case study, we demonstrate how we updated this home exterior in Colleyville, Texas.

Choosing the right mulch for your garden beds. We look at rock versus wood and other options for mulching your landscape.

Adult butterflies need to drink flower nectar to survive. Incorporate plants with different bloom times into your landscape.

Here's a comprehensive list of plants you can incorporate into your landscape to attract more of our native Lepidoptera.

Follow our 10 steps to becoming a successful organic gardener and begin enjoying the benefits of a healthier lifestyle.

A beautiful yard that draws the envy of neighbors, doesn't necessarily require you to put in back-breaking shifts every weekend!

Raking leaves is back-breaking and time consuming. But there are 3 reasons why you should do it sooner rather than later.

Extend the Fall season by adding Texas native plants into your landscape that bloom later into October, November and even December.

Drainage and erosion issues are often a headache for property owners. If they are not resolved using the right control features, you'll...

When choosing different lighting options to glow up your landscape, there are some important things to consider. Here’s some helpful advice

Are you making these watering mistakes? If so, you could be doing more harm than good to your landscape.

There's nothing worse than to spend more than you planned on your landscape only to be disappointed with the outcome. Don't let that happen!

Planting Texas Natives is a cost-effective way to reduce pesticide and water use and provide shelter and food for wildlife.

Walkways are a primary feature of hardscaping. Although they are functional, they can be styled to give an aesthetic effect, which means...