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It’s been warm around the Hudson Valley for quite a while now, but the true signs of late spring and summer are in the air: the grass is turning lush and green (and needs cutting!); trees are in full bloom; Mother’s Day is TODAY; and kids are starting to get restless for long days at the pool.
Are you ready?
And, more importantly, is your landscape ready?
Here are our four tips for preparing your outdoor space and making your annual garden and bedding plants look as perfect as possible for the spring and summer. [click to continue…]
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Big thanks to Kathy Neave for the great photos and Leah Speck for writing this post, including the captions. Even bigger thanks to everyone who particpated in this year’s March!
On Sunday May 6 Neave Group participated in their 5th consecutive March of Dimes March for Babies fundraiser. The event was held at the Walkway over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie, NY where we had a beautiful day for our three mile walk.
There were over 1,500 people that participated in the event this year and Neave Group raised over $1,000 for the charity. There was plenty of entertainment for everyone – coffee & pastries for the adults, & bouncy houses & snow cones for the kids.
The March of Dimes is an incredible organization and Neave Group is proud to participate in this event every year!
Mark Ciccarelli, his daughter Jillian, & Leah Speck's daughter Annabel.
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At Neave Group we believe it’s important to give back to our local communities. This ideal permeates our entire company. Recently, Wade McReynolds, our Maintenance Division Manager, requested that we give our support to Poughkeepsie’s Italian Center by assisting them in resurfacing their aging bocce courts.
Wade volunteered his Saturday afternoon to coordinate the project while Neave Group donated the necessary materials.
Nice work, Wade!
As you can read below, play has already begun on the newly renovated courts and the Italian Center is hopeful they will be hosting future bocce league tournament play. Remember to invite us!
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This post was written by Mario Colantuoano, Neave Group’s turf care specialist and self-proclaimed lawn fanatic. Mario shares his practical lawn care tips and advice on The Neave Way blog on a regular basis.
Homeowners often think growing a lawn is easy. We drop a couple bags of fertilizer and put the sprinkler on it and think that’s all we need to do. Not true!
What is the first step in achieving a lush, healthy, green lawn? Water! We all need it to survive. The same is true for our lawns.
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Many of the projects we’ve written about here have been newly constructed homes in need of some inventive landscaping and stonework to really set them apart from other homes in the area.
The Schweppes’ home couldn’t be more different.
Located across the Hudson River from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, their unique home is more than 100 years old, but it doesn’t look its age. The exterior is lovely and quaint, with a striking red tile roof that really pops against its creamy stucco finish, complemented with black shutters and crisp white window accents. From the street, it practically begs onlookers to come inside and live.
The Schweppes love to live inside their home — and outside, too — but because it’s over a century old, it has some limitations for their modern-day needs. And that’s where Neave Group Outdoor Solutions came in.
You can see from the “Before” photos that the upper patio — next to the house, up the stairs from the Schweppes’ beautiful vanishing-edge gunite pool — doesn’t have a lot of useable space; the patio furniture feels very crowded and walking around without getting tripped up is a challenge. The garden also looks overplanted and overgrown.
The existing swimming pool is surrounded by over-grown shrubs which minimizes the circulation and entertaining space around the pool.
The upper patio isn't quite large enough for what the Schweppes require
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