Consultations
No matter how ambitious your design, or how small your garden area is, we can help identify your needs, answer your questions, and solve your problems. Desiree Gardens can provide everything from a friendly chat through a phone consultation, all the way to a full set of plans and itemized list of plants along with a schedule. In addition, if you are located in the North Texas area Desiree Gardens can provide plants, materials, hardscaping, and the labor to install the garden of your dreams.
We can provide:
- Phone or Zoom consultations
- In person consultations in North Texas
- Design services
- Installation
- Maintenance on a regular schedule
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Plant Rental
Bring life into any space by adding plants from Desiree Gardens. We can provide potted plants for office and businesses, house staging, conventions and trade shows, photo shoots, weddings and special events. Our plant rental services can help you create an inviting indoor space in your office, or a relaxing environment for your customers at your place of business. With plant rentals from Desiree Gardens, we provide the plants and the feeding, care, and maintenance that plant requires. If your plant gets sick or dies while renting from Desiree Gardens, we’ll replace it at no additional charge. Even if you have existing office plants, ask us about our office plant care services. Whether you need the constant color of rotating annuals, lush tropicals and succulents, a nice selection of hanging baskets, or simple accent ferns or ficus trees, we can provide what you need.
Surviving North Texas Summers: Tips for a Thriving Garden
This is the time of year when people find out if they chose the right plant in the right place with the right amount of water. The opposite of the deep-freeze of winter, this scorching summer heat and lack of rain is pushing plants to their limit. We are inundated with customers complaining about dead gardens and lawns. With water restrictions in place, it is really difficult to get your plants and grass enough water to withstand the onslaught of summer. It doesn’t have to be this way. Properly designed, with sufficient moisture from an irrigation system or obsessive hand watering, your garden can in fact survive the summers of North Texas. As part of this, it is critical to water your plants deeply and infrequently. Deep watering is critical to helping your plants establish deep roots. Plants that are frequently watered may have the roots find their way closer…
Plant Focus: Turk’s Cap Malvaviscus arboreus
This North Texas native excels in our climate and should have a place in nearly every garden. This perennial can get over four feet tall and nearly three feet wide in the far north of it’s habitat. In warmer climates where it grows year-round it can tower over seven feet tall. The Turk’s Cap can tolerate a wide variety of soil and water conditions and it has adapted to a wide range of climates with a range that extends from USDA zone 7 all the way south to Florida, Cuba, Mexico, and the entirety of the Gulf Coast. In southern climates that rarely get freezing weather the Turk’s Cap is an evergreen plant and will flower year-round. Further north it will die back to the ground in colder weather and reemerge every spring as a woody perennial. Malvaviscus arboreus is often found as an understory plant where it thrives in…
All About Mulch
Garden mulch is simple topic that is often misunderstood by so many people. Mulch is far more than just a decorative finish for a garden bed. Used properly, mulch is one of the key ingredients for maintaining a healthy landscape. Used improperly and mulch can actually kill plants and drive off precious moisture. Let’s start by discussing dyed mulches. Mulch that has been dyed red or black is some of the most popular mulch out there, and one doesn’t have to look twice to realize why. It looks fantastic and can really make a boring garden bed pop. It used to be the case that dyed mulches used toxic and unnatural dyes. On occasion, especially with the cheapest mulch from the big box stores, this is still the case. By and large however, most dyed mulches use iron oxide for red and carbon for black and darker brown mulch. The…
4th of July Garden Activities
Independence Day is uniquely popular for outdoor activities: socializing, grilling, pool parties, and of course fireworks. Do you have fireworks going off in your garden? You should! The outdoor garden area can be one of the most popular gathering places for your friends and family. Many many summer plants are just absolutely exploding with color right now! Crape myrtles in particular are showing off their blooms with a dizzying display of color. If you’re interested in planting one, it is the perfect time to select the exact color you want as they are all in bloom at the nursery right now. Here in North Texas almost every crape myrtle you choose will be freeze tolerant for any weather we get with few exceptions. If your crape myrtle is not blooming or even showing substantial dead branches and trunks, AND is shooting up abundant new growth from the ground it has…
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