Caretaker Landscape – Quick Tip

Happy Friday, with the rain headed this way we wanted to leave you with a quick landscape tip for the weekend.   “Turn off your timers if we receive more than ¼” of rain, don’t forget to turn the timer back on after the showers stop if you are watering for seed germination. Other than that, enjoy the cooling rain…

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Monsoon Season Starts June 15th – Are you ready?

Check out this article written by Dan Trudeau published in Vistancia Living’s June Issue.

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Mike’s Plant of the Week – Agave parryi, or ‘Parry’s Agave’

My name is Mike Eden. I’m the Business Development Coordinator here at CARETAKER LANDSCAPE AND TREE MANAGEMENT. Every week I send out a new ‘Plant of the Week’ to our team and partners to help educate us on the plants we care for in our fields of work. Please tune in for this amazing opportunity to become more familiar with the…

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Mike’s Plant of The Week

This week I am featuring the Semmondsia chinensis, or ‘Jojoba’   FUN FACT: Jojoba is grown for the liquid wax (commonly called jojoba oil) in its seeds. This oil is rare in that it’s an extremely long straight-chain wax ester and not a triglyceride, making jojoba and its derivative jojoba esters more similar to human sebum and whale oil than to traditional vegetable oils. Jojoba oil is interesting for the…

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