Monthly Archives: October 2013

TRU Landscape Makeover – Orange County Landscapers

Orange County Landscapers

Renew Online Presence

All of our online pages are being updated including YouTube, G+, Facebook, and our website. These pages are great places to stop and see images of our diverse projects from complete landscape makeovers to custom concrete fire pits. Whether you’re looking to connect socially with us, explore some of our past projects, or watch some videos of our landscape work, we have the avenue for you.

Above, you see TRU’s new Landscape Services YouTube page. Click it to be taken to the page and subscribe to see examples of our landscaping work. It’s an online video portfolio. So far, you can see real life projects that we’ve completed in Aliso Viejo, Anaheim Hills, Mission Viejo, Orange, Yorba Linda, and several cities in between. Stay tuned for more videos. We add new projects many times a week.

Google Plus

We also have a Google plus landscaping page:

Visit TRU Landscapers new Google Plus page by clicking on the picture! Add the page to your circles to keep in touch. Plus One or review us if you’ve enjoyed your experience working with TRU. Today we got a custom URL from Google Plus that may correlate to our continued efforts to fill out the google plus page. Here’s our custom URL from Google Plus page: google.com/+Trulandscape.

Hopefully this redesigned page will help people like you discover the joys of your outdoor space. There’s something truly relaxing about a balanced yard. You will likely feel a release of stress when you enjoy your remodeled yard. This
Google Plus page will be useful for those looking for licensed landscaping contractors serving Orange County California. We are also on Angie’s List, Yahoo and many other platforms. It’s important to find a trusted contractor when looking to have landscape work done. And there’s a contractor for you: It’s TRU!

Do you like what you see? If you’re living in any region of Orange County California, TRU may be just the solution for that unappealing backyard or problematic front space. While we’re getting an online facelift, take a look at your own yard. Is the grass looking tired? Is your backyard lacking that perfect centerpiece? Need to find the right landscape contractors for your yard? Orange county’s TRU Landscape Services has the answer.

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Have you heard that there’s a trusted landscaping company in Orange County? It’s TRU! We offer a number of complete yard solutions including synthetic grass for dog runs, custom concrete driveways, and classic pavers. The benefit of hiring our company is that we can take care of your landscape remodel from start to finish without using subcontractors. Our skilled team members can work from landscape design to demolition to construction to completion because of their many years of experience and training.

Seal Beach Landscaping pt 2 – Softscape

Seal Beach Landscaping Company

Our customer requested a tropical landscape with no palm trees to keep with the Seal Beach landscaping vibe. We met with the customer and went over a list of plants that would fit the aesthetic. To achieve this request for a tropical landscape, we gathered an assortment of tropical plants such as:

Canna Lily Orange County Landscape

dwarf philodendrons

canna lily (Pretoria)

day lilies

queen annes

and birds of paradise to add height.

All of these were tenderly placed in beds marked off by a wooden landscape border that accented the tropical nature of the plants.

How do you keep new plants healthy?

Supply proper nutrients to the plants: To assure healthy growth of these tropical plants, we always install our plants with mulch and soil amendments. The fertilizer is a fertilizing tablet like a pill that slowly releases the proper nutrients over three years until the plant is well established. Landscaping fertilizer assures that each plant will survive and thrive. We’re in it for the long term. TRU’s landscapes last!

Supply the right amount of water: Lawns in Seal Beach, like the rest of Orange County and Southern California, are in need of water and proper irrigation. Another way we ensure the survival and longevity of tropical plants is by installing a basic residential irrigation system. We installed drip lines in all of the planters. TRU Landscape Services likes to exclusively use drip lines in our planter beds. Too many small planters do not have enough room to install a standard sprinkler head which would miss some of the plants and waste water from over spray. Standard sprinkler heads may also spray the house and ruin the exterior wall or spray the sidewalk. We have also tried installing bubblers in these small planters in the past, but we found that the bubblers were wasting water. The advantage to having a drip line installed is that there is no spraying water. The water drips out of a plastic pipe and directly to the plants. This, in turn, cuts down on wasted water and by saving water; TRU Landscaping saves our customers money.

While the planters were being outfitted with drip irrigation, Rain Bird Sprinklers were installed for the new sod. No traditional landscape is complete without a green lawn. The key is simply a well watered lawn properly fertilized and a properly timed sprinkler timer. The entire sprinkler system was up and running in a few days. On the last day, our crew installed the new sod for the lawn.

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All of that landscape work was a cinch for TRU Landscape Services! If you’re living in Orange County and are considering a landscape contractor, perhaps you’ve found the perfect one today in TRU Landscape Services.

Seal Beach Landscape Part 1 – Hardscape

Orange County Landscapes

Are you living in Seal Beach and looking for a licensed landscaping contractor near you to get the job done right? See for yourself how TRU Landscape Services treats the yards and customers they serve. TRU Landscape Services just finished this outdoor landscape for a family in Seal Beach.

Finished Front Yard Landscape, Seal Beach

Landscaping companies sometimes neglect this city, but TRU services all of Orange County California. Like many projects, this Seal Beach landscape project consisted of installing Hardscape (concrete, flagstones) and “soft scape” (plants and lawns).

Orange County Concrete Contractors

First the foundation: We began by removing all of the old plants and concrete because the owners had decided to have the front and backyards re-landscaped. For its longevity, look to TRU Landscape’s Orange County concrete services. In the front yard, our landscape crews were to install a lawn, planter beds, a new concrete walkway and a concrete porch. In the backyard we added landscape concrete, flagstone, and planted new foliage.

Flagstone Patio by TRU Landscape Services

Concrete under the Jacuzzi and Flagstone Patio

After the entire backyard and portions of the front yard had been stripped clean, our crews set up the forms for the landscape concrete to be poured. In the front yard, our crews installed the new concrete walkway to the front door and a new concrete porch. The landscape concrete was finished in two days and the customers were happy to have a more accessible and safe front walkway.

Flagstone Patio

Orange County Flagstone is the right addition to your Landscaping. Seal Beach California.

Flagstone completes this landscape. Seal Beach, California

In the backyard, concrete was poured in preparation for the flagstone patio we would install near the homeowners Jacuzzi and pool. TRU Landscape Services has been installing flagstone in Orange County for over 20 years and we know that the best method for installing flagstone is to pour a concrete pad first. So many times, we have seen flagstone set in sand or a thin layer of concrete fail in a short time. A proper pad of concrete will ensure the longevity of this beautiful patio area. A concrete pad was also installed under the Jacuzzi to keep it level. Our Hardscape crew made fast work of this flagstone patio.

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After all of the Hardscape was finished, we moved onto the “soft scape” (plants and lawns) of the landscaping. See our next blog (Seal Beach Landscaping – Part 2) to hear how we properly fertilized and installed a tropical landscape and a sustainable lawn.

Seal Beach Landscape