Lawn Irrigation Tips - Mickman Brothers Irrigation

It’s time to start thinking about replacing those old sprinkler heads.  How old is your sprinkler system?  Much has changed with sprinkler head technology and also with the maturity of your landscape.

Just replacing those old sprinkler heads can increase your water savings by 30 percent!  Technology has improved greatly since your sprinkler system was installed years ago.  Sprinkler heads are now designed to apply water more efficiently and effectively than in the past.  Your landscape has also matured and many of your sprinklers may now be blocked by more mature plant material.

Inspect your sprinkler system and look for opportunities to replace older sprinkler heads.  It is also recommended to make sure your rain sensor is working properly.  By making your system more efficient today, you will be saving water now and every day into the future.

Please contact our irrigation service department and let us know if we can assist you in keeping your sprinkler system performing at its best.  763-434-1487 or susan.pruitt@mickman.com

Jeff Latterell

Lawn Irrigation Specialist

www.mickman.com

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Pruning Ornamental Grasses - Mickman Brothers Landscape Department

Mariah Mickman shows us how to trim back our ornamental grasses after the long Minnesota winter!  The ornamental grass looked great in our Winter landscape garden, but it needs to be pruned back to allow for new growth in the upcoming gardening season!  Contact Mariah or any of our Landscape Designers for more about cleaning up your landscape gardens or updating your current landscape design, mariah.mickman@mickman.com

Tree Pruning - Mickman Brothers Maintenance Department

Mariah Mickman demonstrates how to prune a Spring Snow Crabapple tree, something that can be done in the early Spring months. Pruning trees right now is perfectly fine, as long as Oak trees are pruned BEFORE April 1st. Pruning Oak trees after April 1st leaves them susceptible to Oak wilt.

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Look for Mickman Brothers Landscape Designers this weekend in Blaine!

Purple Petunia annuals

Yes, it snowed yet again to spoil our hopes and dreams that Spring was in fact showing up sometime soon.  After all, Puxatony Phil did promise us we would have our early spring season, and that was over 6 weeks ago.  What kind of groundhog would lie about a thing like that?  Well, he wasn't from Minnesota, that's for sure!  As we all know, the snow will melt... eventually and we'll all get to spend a nice summer outside.  But until that actually happens, we'll share some pictures of our growing greenhouses to get you through the next few days.  They're full of annual and perennial flowers, just babies right now, but they're green and that makes everyone smile!

Also, join us this Saturday for the 1st Annual Women's Expo hosted by the Aveda Corporation in Blaine.  Anne Marie, one of our stellar Landscape Designers, will be there showing off some pictures of her awesome Landscape Designs.  Anne has many credentials to her name, including submitting the winning design on an episode of Landscapers' Challenge on HGTV!  She has an amazing ability to see her client's landscape vision, and bring it to life!  Call her today: 763.434.3346.  View some of Mickman Brothers landscape designs on our Landscape Picture Gallery.  www.mickman.com

Bleeding Heart perennials

Mickman Brothers Landscape Designer wins HGTV Landscapers' Challenge!

Anne Marie Moseman

Anne Marie is featured on the 'Poster of Professionals' for Dakota County Technical Institute's Landscape Design Program from which she graduated in 1988. She has earned the respect and business from her many clients by listening to their ideas and guiding them through the landscape construction process.

Anne Marie has received accolades and recognition from numerous fronts, including earning an MNLA Merit Award, having one of her projects featured on 'Rebecca's Garden' as well as being selected for HGTV's Landscape Challenge show on the HGTV Network in 2006.

Pictures from the HGTV Landscaper's Challenge