• Weed and Feed

With temperatures still in the upper seventies to lower eighties, now is the time for any weed and feed applications. The most effective way is to apply granular, slow-release fertilizers, preferably with a pre-emergent weed control added to prevent seed germination
 

• Raking leaves from hardwood trees

Those beautiful Southern Oak trees? They noticed Spring is coming! Thats why they are shedding their old growth leaves and are covered in budding light-green new growth. It is important however to rake the decayed leaves from your lawn in order to allow much needed sunlight to reach your lawn and allow the gras to emerge from its nearly dormant state.

• Trim dead branches from hardwood

Older hardwood trees might not regrow their full canopy. Unhealthy or damaged branches will slowly decay and are better removed before they form a hazard.
 

• Replace annuals

Those beautiful Impatiens or Vinca’s are about to reach their maximum growth stag and will be falling over soon from their own weight. Time to think of replacing them with Summer tolerant varieties such as Coleus or Penta.

• Mulch

Mulching plant beds promotes plant growth and adds organic elements (red:food) to our relatively inert Florida soil. By now the mulch that was put down by Thanksgiving or New Years should be showing signs of decay. Let’s freshen up those plant beds with a new layer of organic mulch to keep everything growing trough Summer.

• Prune winter blooming plants and shrubs

To maintain all plants healthy, it is important to remove all dead flower buds; this will improve growth and help them bloom again

• Check for seasonal pests on ornamentals

Aphids, Whitefly, Thrips to name only a few are common plant pests in our warm and humid climate. Keep an eye out for them and have them treated. Preferably with organic methods such as teem-oil or insect soap.

• Adequate height for mowing your lawn.

It is tempting to cut your lawn a little shorter, in order to not having to mow your grass so often but in doing so the stolen network underlying yours.-Augustine/Floratam lawn might become exposed and will die off. It is important to keep the correct mowing height set on our mower at ll times and, of course… keep your mower blades sharpened!

​The Annual People’s Choice Award from the Houzz Community Highlights Home Remodeling and Design Professionals with Most Popular Designs and Top Ratings

Wellington, FL, February 13, 2020 – Green Team Landscapes of Wellington, FL has won a “Best Of Houzz” award for Customer Service, on Houzz®, the leading platform for home renovation and design. The 15-year old landscape design and installation firm was chosen by the millions of homeowners that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 2.5 million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.

The Best Of Houzz badge is awarded annually, in three categories: Design, Customer Service and Photography. Design awards honor professionals whose work was the most popular among the Houzz community. Customer Service honors are based on several factors, including a pro's overall rating on Houzz and client reviews submitted in 2019. Architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular are recognized with the Photography award.

A “Best Of Houzz 2020” badge will appear on winners’ profiles as a sign of their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz.

Creating original, and personalized gardens, combined with our high standard maintenance skills paid off again and we are very thankful for receiving this award.

Luc Limbourg - Owner

“This year’s Best Of Houzz awards go to an incredibly talented and service-oriented group of home remodeling and design professionals, and we’re proud to highlight the winners on the Houzz website and app,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of Industry Marketing for Houzz. “This award is particularly meaningful as it reflects the sentiment of the millions of homeowners in the Houzz community who are hiring home professionals for their projects across the U.S. and around the world.”

Follow Green Team Landscapes  on Houzz https://www.houzz.com/pro/limbourg/

About Green Team Landscapes
It all started 15 years ago when Luc Limbourg decided for a career change and made his hobby his day-job. Many landscape designs and installs later, we keep striving to be the most original in our area, by exceeding customer expectations every day!

About Houzz

​Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish – online or from a mobile device. From decorating a small room to building a custom home and everything in between, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community empowered by technology, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin, Sydney, Moscow, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. Houzz is a registered trademark of Houzz Inc. worldwide. For more information, visit houzz.com.

Meet Wilson, our gorgeous Airedale Terrier. The best dog one can get! He loves to rampage trough our yard, enjoys chasing squirrels and tking naps in the shade underneath the cocoanut palm trees.

Unfortunately, with happy dog rampage comes happy dog peerage. The acid and nitrogen in Wilson's pee burns the grass and leaves brown dog urine spots all over our combined lawns. There are several chemical and food additive solutions to this problem but my neighbors and I prefer a natural approach.​


Five organic remedies to repair those brown dog urine burns on your lawn that will not harm you or your dog.

1. Train your dog to potty in one area of your yard. 
This is easier if you have a female dog because female dogs generally like to piddle in the same place, (so the boy dogs always know where to go to read the girl dog’s pee-mail.) A boy dog might need a little more incentive to potty in one area of your yard. In that case, try using a non-toxic pheromone-treated yard stake to encourage your boy to hit the same spot such as the Simple Solutions Pee Post. I’m a bit of a traditionalist in this regard, I prefer the aesthetic quality of the pee post Fire Hydrant.

2. Hose down the pee spot with enough water to dilute the acid in the urine and wash it away. 
The downside of this method is that you must use enough water to flush the entire area of urine (female dog urine is more acidic than male dog urine.) I don’t use enough water you’ll only end up diluting the urine spot with water. Then your random brown patches will turn into random dark green patches because the nitrogen in the dog pee has been diluted to the point that it helps your grass instead of burning it.

3. Neutralize the nitrogen with baking soda. 
This is my preferred method because I don’t have to stalk the dogs in the backyard with a hose waiting for them to pee. Pouring 2 tablespoons of baking soda dissolved in a gallon of water on a burn spot neutralizes the concentrated amounts of ammonia and nitrogen that’s in the dog urine and burns the grass. The grass comes back green and healthy and I don’t have to worry about the dogs walking through a yard full of lawn chemicals and possibly ingesting something toxic when they lick their paws.

4. Give your dog a lawn to call their own. 
One of Wilson’s quirks is that he will only potty on grass. No mulch, clover, or potty pads for my boy! In that case, the PetZoom Pet Park Indoor Pet Potty may work for him and help me save my tiny lawn.

If you are interested in installing a pet corner, give us a call at (561)337-0658 so we can discuss options!

Thank you for reading,

Luc M. limbourg

The Best of Houzz 2018 for Service was awarded to Luc Limbourg and Green Team solutions, LLC for the third time, as a result of consistent favorable reviews from our clients. After 12 years of serving the Palm Beach area, as well as several international projects we continue our commitment to providing our clients with the highest level of design, build and maintenance services from concept to job completion and maintain our relationship thereafter.

Luc Limbourg and Greenteam solutions  Awarded Best Of Houzz 2018

Over 40 Million Monthly Unique Users Nominated Best Landscape Building, and Design Professionals in North America and Around the World 

WELLINGTON FL, USA, January 17, 2018 – Luc Limbourg and Green team Solutions of Wellington – Palm Beach has won “Best Of Customer Service, on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The The 12-year old design build and maintenance firm was chosen by the more than 40 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than one million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.
The Best Of Houzz is awarded annually in three categories: Design, Customer Service and Photography. Service award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 40 million monthly users on Houzz. Customer Service honors are based on several factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2017. Architecture and landscape design photographers whose images were most popular are recognized with the Photography award. A “Best Of Houzz 2018” badge will appear on winners’ profiles, as a sign of their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz.

“We at Green Team Solutions are thrilled to be a 2018 Houzz Service Award winner. It gives us great satisfaction that our work has such a broad appeal and we thank the Houzz Community for their votes.”

“The Houzz community selected a phenomenal group of Best of Houzz 2018 award winners, so this year’s recipients should be very proud,” said Liza Hausman, Vice President of Industry Marketing at Houzz. “Best of Houzz winners represent some of the most talented and customer-focused professionals in our industry, and we are extremely pleased to give them both this recognition and a platform on which to showcase their expertise.”
Follow Green team solutions on ​Houzz https://www.houzz.com/pro/limbourg/__public​

Houzz Inc., the leading platform for home renovation and design, today announced the community’s picks for Best Of Houzz 2017, a homeowner-to-homeowner guide to the top home builders, architects, interior designers, landscape pros and other residential remodeling professionals on Houzz from cabinetry or roofing pros to painters.

“We are so pleased to receive for the second time the Best of Houzz 2017 award, which sets us apart among our peers" said Luc Limbourg, head designer and owner of Green Team Solutions, LLC.  “I'm so glad to know that our busines was singled out for recognition by our community of homeowners for helping to turn their home improvement dreams into reality."

The Best Of Houzz is awarded annually in three categories: Design, Customer Service and Photography. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 40 million monthly users on Houzz. Customer Service honors are based on several factors, including the number and quality of recent client reviews. Architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular are recognized with the Photography award.

A “Best Of Houzz 2017” badge appears on winners’ profiles, as a sign of their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz. Winners will be announced globally throughout the month. 

About Houzz
Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish – online or from a mobile device. From decorating a small room to building a custom home and everything in between, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community empowered by technology, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin, Sydney, Moscow and Tokyo. Houzz and the Houzz logo are registered trademarks of Houzz Inc. worldwide. For more information, visit houzz.com.

Watering your mature, healthy lawn every day, or even every other day, is the definition of overwatering. This is wrong no matter what other people tell you or what your neighbors do! What is wrong with watering like this?

Overwatering drowns the plant's roots
Grass plants do not need, and cannot use, this much water! The soil underneath your sod is composed of sand, silt, and clay particles - as well as porous spaces. When it rains, water fills those porous spaces by pushing out the air. Daily watering keeps those pores filled with water instead of oxygen, which is vital to plant growth. Without oxygen, the roots of the sod will suffocate and die, leaving the plant with a very shallow root system.

Shallowly rooted plants are easily stressed
When the roots of the turf plant die due to lack of oxygen, the plant is put under stress. This, in turn, makes them more susceptible to disease and insect damage. Minor disease and insect problems can become major lawn disasters when a lawn is shallowly rooted. Even though the roots are not easily visible, they alone determine the health and beauty of the plant.

Overwatered lawns have more weeds
To compound the problem, the weeds that overwatered lawns often have are the kinds that are more difficult to control. This is especially noticeable on a lawn that has been overwatered for more than two years.

Overwatering wastes time and money and contributes to pollution
Ground water is a natural resource. Wasting water on plants that do not need it just doesn't make sense. Pumping this unneeded water also wastes electricity. Established lawns do not dry in drought - they go dormant and start growing again after a rain. Your lawn will not die if you underwater it. Fertilizer that is applied to overwatered lawns is washed past the roots before it can be absorbed by the plant. Ultimately, this results in nitrate pollution of the groundwater.

Excessive fertilizer applications are needed
Since the fertilizer that you have applied is washed through the root zone before absorption, the lawn will lose color faster. The natural response, of course, is to then apply more fertilizer. In reality, one application that is absorbed, and not washed out, is all that is needed.

How to properly water a lawn
Homeowners want to believe they can have a beautiful lawn all year long by setting their sprinkler system once in the Spring. This is simply not possible because the only settings on a system are how often and how long a zone is watered. What really determines if grass needs water is how dry the soil is. Soil moisture is determined by air temperature, humidity, wind speed, rainfall frequency and amount, soil type, and overall grass condition. These are complex and interrelated factors and the type of equipment needed to take all these factors in account is not available to homeowners today. Until this technology comes along at an affordable price, homeowners will have to take a hands-on approach to lawn watering if they truly want to have a nice looking lawn.

​The proper way to water a lawn is very simple: thoroughly but infrequently. When the soil is dry to a depth of five inches, water the lawn long enough to wet the soil five inches deep. When a homeowner has a new lawn and or a new automatic sprinkler system, he or she should take the time to become acquainted with both. The important area to explore is how much water does the sprinkler apply in, say, 30 minutes and how deep in the soil will this water go down? A garden trowel can be used to dig in the soil to see how dry it is. A screwdriver can be used to poke in the soil. By digging and poking, you can soon learn to equate how much effort it takes to poke the screwdriver in the soil with how dry the soil is. This saves you from constantly digging up your yard. Twelve hours after watering is long enough to see how deep in the soil the water traveled. Each zone should be checked the same way because there are usually differences in the amount of water each zone needs and how much water each sprinkler applies. A lawn can be watered any time of day but it is best to avoid watering in the late afternoon or evening. Early morning is a good time to water.

How do you know when to water?
Walking in your yard and looking for visual signs that it needs water is also important. St. augustine grass will get a bluish color, the leaves will look narrow, and your footprints on the grass will remain for a long time when the grass is dry. Ideally, the lawn should be watered the day before the visual symptoms occur.

Watering correctly seems complex, but all it takes is a little practice. Remember, your lawn will not die if you underwater it. There is a larger penalty to pay for overwatering than under watering!