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Commenced:
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01/01/2018 |
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Submitted:
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17/04/2018 |
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Last updated:
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19/04/2018 |
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Location:
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Atando Court, Apex, NC, US |
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Phone:
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704-975-7695 |
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Website:
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http://earthius.com |
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Climate zone:
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Warm Temperate |
This client is a retired couple who was tired of the back and forth with their lawn maintenance service. The wife finally concluded that, outside of spending $7k to replace the sod only to watch it rot away again under their large, dense tree canopy, she would rather rip it out altogether. At that point, they found The Earthius Project. I provided them with a budget friendly plan that would eliminate the remaining lawn over a period of 3 months (so the HOA would not be alarmed), worked with the existing land contours to create solutions from problems (like building up gullies with wood chips, planting moisture-loving red-twig dogwood in the boggy areas), and providing the aging couple with a virtually maintenance-free, drought and deer proof oasis of diverse wildlife habitat and kitchen garden.
A high maintenance, sodded suburban 1/4 acre plot is transformed to a lush woodland oasis.
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