Commercial, HOA (Residential) Snow Removal

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Attention Niwot and nearby neighborhoods. Set up your snow removal services right away.

Includes driveway and walk.  It is done if there is two inches of snow accumulation.

Commercial Snow Removal available in Longmont also.

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Ice-melt, harmful to childern, pets concrete, cars?

Q. Is ice-melt harmful to children, pets, concrete, cars, the environment or other property?

A. This question can be answered generally. The label and Material Safety Data Sheet of each particular ice-melt product should be read carefully. In varying degrees between the different compounds the answer is; yes. If these products come in contact with skin the area should be washed with soap and water. An example of a common problem would be walking your dog on a snowy day, when you return from your walk you should take time to wash your dog's paws. Inevitability, your dog has picked up ice-melt products on its paws. This can be tracked into the home and can cause the dogs skin to dry and become irritated. These compounds can also shorten the life of clothing (boots, gloves, etc.)  Sodium chloride (rock salt) being far worse than the others. On concrete ice-melt products that have lower melting temperatures reduces the number of freeze to thaw cycles and are less damaging than ice- melt products with higher melting temperatures. Therefore, sodium chloride (rock salt) is the worst of all the products. The problem is that frequent freeze to thaw cycles can cause concrete to flake. It is not the chemical make up of the ice-melt that causes the flaking it is the thawing and refreezing. Concrete flaking can be caused by the weather without any ice-melt being applied. The danger is especially high with concrete that is less then two years old and which may not have completely cured to reach its full strength. Care should be taken to wash cars soon after a storm has passed. Chloride ions are corrosive to metals; compounds with less chloride are therefore less corrosive. Some ice-melts are even 90% less corrosive then sodium chloride (rock salt.) In the environment, at high levels most of these products can kill plants. Some of them are used as ingredients in fertilizers and won't harm plants in low levels. Sodium chloride (rock salt) is the biggest problem to plants and sand is the biggest problem in the air. Oily residues in liquid magnesium chloride and calcium chloride can be slippery when tracked in doors on hard floors and hard to clean from carpet.

Berggren Blooms serving the Front Range for 20 years!

Celebrating Twenty Years!

Berggren Blooms started business in Longmont in January 2000.

We are so happy to be starting our Twentieth landscape season. We owe our success to our customers.

So to all of our customers in Longmont and Niwot 

THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

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How to get rid of your dog's spots.

The dog's spots in the lawn!
My daughter liked that corny joke.
There is really only one or two options here.
One train your dog to go in a rock area or in a dog run.
If that is too hard to do. Water out the spots. Try to go out after your dog and wash it away right after he goes. Following your dog around the yard with a hose is not something most of us can do either. Inevitably if you have dogs you end up with a couple of spots in the lawn. When you see these spots, water them heavily. Try to water out all of the salts.
Female dogs make spots more often then male dogs. That is why some dog owners don't get dog spots at all. I have been told that Dalmatians have higher amounts of salt in their urine then other breeds. Your neighbor might have a dog and no problem with getting dog spots. It is just a difference in the dog.
Don't change his food for this, the idea that you can change the dog's urinary pH, it doesn't work. Also, hardware store cures don't work. Home remedies that include anything more then plain water can make the problem worse.

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Longmont Lawn Care

Do you dig Cannas and Dahlias?

If you dug them out in the fall, you should be thinking about starting them indoors about now.

If you like Cannas, Dahlias and even Begonias you might buy and plant them each Spring. Leaving them in the ground or planter for the winter, treating them like other Annual beding plants.

10 cool plants for shade areas!

1. Columbine - I had to mention this one first because it is Colorado's state flower.
2. Hosta - Great foliage plant some have real nice flowers to, some have flowers that you don't notice much. Use the darker leaf Hosta in heavy shade. Use the lighter greens, golds and variegated in lighter shade, part sun and a few can even go in the Sun. Watch out for slugs and hail damage. (Pasta Hosta - Hosta shredafoilia) yet another corny joke.
3. Euonymus - some of these have evergreen leaves, great for winter interest. Many verities from tall shrubs to ground covers.
4. Lilac - the big old fashioned - Common Lilac to the dwarf Korean Lilac. Great Spring color in the shade.
5. Viburnum - some of these are leafy evergreens. Some are partial evergreen, they hold leaves into the Winter but drop them at some point. Common Viburnums include Snowball Bush, both American & European Cranberry Bush, Nannyberry and Wayfaring Tree. Many sizes and leaf textures to chose from. They bloom on old wood like Lilacs (prune lightly after bloom.) They also provide fruit for birds - not Snowball Bush its a sterile hybrid.
6. Kinnikinnick - I love this ground cover plant because it reminds me of camping in the Colorado mountains. Leafy Evergreen ground cover. Native of Colorado Mountains.
7. Oregon Grape Holly - leafy evergreen shrub also, Creeping Oregon Grape Holly is a ground cover. Looks similar to Holly but not a true Holly at all. Its actually a Mahonia, it has other commonly used names - Mahonia or Mahony.
8. Dwarf Alberta Spruce - cool little spruce. These guys get damaged by the Sun in the Winter time. If the Sun hits it, shade it in the Winter.
9. White Fir - Large evergreen tree. Also called the Concolor Fir. This one has really neat soft thick needles, pale green in color.
10. Arborvitae - many verities and colors to chose from, ranging from blue needles to dark green. These are the softer version of an upright juniper. They are not junipers they just resemble them.

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Longmont Niwot Landscape & Gardening Ideas