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C & J Landscaping
  • $150 off project of $3,000 or more
  • $300 off project of $6,000 or more
  • 5% OFF for pre-pay on 2024 lawn chemical program.
  • Don't forget about snow. Ask about our set it and forget it program.
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Lawn and Landscape Tips in Orion, Illinois


Keep Your Property Well-Maintained

It is important to protect your landscaping investment and keep your property looking its very best. Make sure that you are doing what's best for your property and get expert lawn and landscape tips from C & J Landscaping in the Quad Cities. Our professional landscapers provide useful advice and can help you devise a schedule for upkeep and maintenance.

Useful Advice for Landscape Care:

  • Apply herbicide on a sunny, warm day when rain is not forecast for at least 12 hours.
  • During periods of hot weather, water turf morning and evening, twice a week.
  • Edge the beds. Cutting fresh edges where the grass meets the mulch makes the lawn look well-kept.
  • Make sure your outdoor living space is bigger than you think it should be.
  • Studies have shown that a good landscaping design and layout can increase the value of a home by 15-20%.
  • Trim evergreens in late spring.

New Sod Care Instructions:

  • Watering of new sod will be the responsibility of the property owner.
  • Water the sod 2 times a day until soaked (approximately 1.5 hours each time) for the first 21 days.
  • Do not let the sod go dormant during the first year.

Consult Our Landscape Designers

If you do not have the time or the inclination to maintain your exterior plantings, engage the regular services of a landscaping maintenance company. Call us at (309) 781-8986 to schedule a landscape consultation. Discuss your maintenance plan with our landscape designers, who can suggest low-maintenance vegetation strategies if gardening and backyard puttering are not your specialties.

Did You Know?

Landscapes Increase Property Appeal

Enjoy many landscaping benefits when you employ the landscaping services of C & J Landscaping in the Quad Cities. A professionally landscaped property improves the curb appeal and value of your home. It can add 15-20% to your home's value, a figure that rivals the return on a new kitchen or bath.

The Coiner of “Landscape Architecture”

Many people credit the likes of Capability Brown (1716-1783) and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) as being the “godfathers” of landscape architecture. But it is in fact a little-known Scotsman by the name of Gilbert Laing Meason who first coined the term “landscape architecture” in his little-known 1828 book “Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy”.

The Most Viewed Landscape

The Great Pyramids in Egypt? The Grand Canyon, perhaps? No. The title of the world's most “viewed” landscape goes to a small field in northern California, photographed by Charles O'Rear in 1996. The image is called Bliss — but you might know it better as the desktop background for Windows. Some estimates place the number of people worldwide who have seen this landscape photograph at more than 1 billion!

Terraces Help Control Erosion

One of the simplest actions you can take to mitigate the problem of an eroding slope is to break up the rate of water descent by constructing terraces or retaining walls. Terraces also give you the opportunity to create a series of mini-gardens. Erosion is prevented by shortening a potentially long slope into a series of more level steps. This allows heavy rains to soak in rather than run off, taking soil with it.

Pipes Aid in Water Management

For extra water management, you can capture and redirect excessive runoff by installing perforated drainage pipe just below the surface. Run the pipe across the direction of the slope. Position the drainage pipe in a gravel bed and set the drain pipe with at least a 2% slope in the gravel bed.

Landscaping Raises Home Value

Good landscaping can add up to 15-20% to the overall value of a house, says landscape economist John Harris, and cut its time on the market 10-15%. Even taking your landscaping to the next level, upgrading from “good” to “excellent,” in terms of design, condition, and placement, can add 15-20% to a home's value, according to a Clemson University study.

Invest in Landscapes for Your Enjoyment

Don't landscape merely to flip a house. You won't get your money back, Sandy MacCuish, a California appraiser, tells us. Instead, landscape for your enjoyment, knowing that you're making a good investment. Did you know trees reduce stress in just 5 minutes? For more landscape-related trivia and fun facts, call us at (309) 781-8986 to speak with our knowledgeable landscape professionals.
Office Manager:
Tim Carr

Operations Manager:
Rodney Moyer
Chemical Division:
Applicator: Tim Miller


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Make sure your property is well-maintained from our experts, contact us at (309) 781-8986 in Orion, Illinois for questions.

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