VOLUME 8 ⚪ ISSUE NO. 23 ⚪ DECEMBER 5, 2024
We are quickly approaching the end of another year! At this time, I’d like to take a moment to express heartfelt gratitude for your continued trust and support in our team. It is always a pleasure to work creating and maintaining beautiful landscapes that enhance your homes and businesses while also bringing you closer to nature.
We are always committed to ensuring your landscape remains healthy and vibrant, even in the coldest winter months, and our team is ready to assist with any year-end services that you may need.
Once again, thank you so much for choosing YardScapes as your landscaping partner. Together, we’re making the world a more beautiful place! ~Shayne
WINTER ADDITIONS

Even in winter we want you to enjoy your property as much as possible. By adding evergreens that retain their color, or hardscaping elements such as garden sculptures, or benches, a typically dull season can be visually transformed into a captivating one.
Another great landscape addition is eastern red cedar or red juniper (above). It is native to the northeast and is a dense, slow-growing coniferous evergreen. Depending on where it is planted, soil conditions, and pruning, it can stay small and bush-shaped or can be allowed to grow anywhere between 16′ to 60′ tall. The plant itself is drought tolerant and works well for erosion control or a windbreak when planted in rows.
The berries are important food for birds like cedar waxwings, bluebirds, and turkeys along with small mammals like rabbits and foxes while the compact foliage is also a fantastic winter shelter for them.
The addition of hardscaping can enhance the visual appeal of your landscape by adding structure and form in any season. Pathways, retaining walls, patios and fire pits can add both a framework and focal point when your landscape is blanketed in snow. Hardscaping materials like wood or brick can also add some color to create visual contrast. Add some outdoor lighting and you can create some truly impressive effects to compliment the winter landscape
FESTIVE LIGHTS
Creating a festive atmosphere at HQ not only helps our staff get into the holiday spirit but boosts the mood of all that pass by! Fostering community spirit is important to us and we love to hear the compliments from our friends and neighbors.
“Thank you for bringing joy to the neighborhood! Whether it be your fabulous daffodil display in spring or the fantastic lights at Christmastime, we always look forward to driving by and will go out of our way to do so!” – Mr. & Mrs. K.
Each year, new lights are added to the display, and we estimate that we now have approximately 40,000 lights on the building and around the front lawn!
“Happy December! If you don’t like the colder weather,
just wrap yourself up in warm holiday spirit!
– Unknown
INDOOR LANDSCAPING
Do you have plants in your home or office? If so, you’re an indoor gardener! Plants not only add beauty and a touch of nature, but they also have proven therapeutic effects. We have written before about the health benefits we get from healthy green spaces in the outdoors, and they happen indoors too!
Studies have shown that being around plants can lower stress and promote a sense of calm and well-being. Living plants improve air quality allowing you to breathe healthier air while also making spaces more inviting, therefore helping to reduce stress levels. Having live greenery in a workspace can also enhance focus and creativity, and being in the view of nature has shown to aid hospital patients in faster recovery from illnesses.
We heard long ago that talking to plants was beneficial for them. Turns out, it’s beneficial to us too! Tending to plants by watering and caring for them can have therapeutic effects. Mood can be improved, reducing symptoms of depression or anxiety while also providing a sense of accomplishment. Medical clinics in England are now “prescribing” potted plants to some patients with these conditions.
Please do your research when choosing plants for the home because some may pose dangers to young children or pets if ingested. Also, if you’ve moved houseplants into your home that had been outdoors all summer, check them periodically for pests that might have hitched a ride inside.