According to our covenants, keep your landscaping in a neat, orderly appearance. You do this by performing the following tasks every 7-10 days on a regular basis during growing season:
· Seeding and/or sodding all grass
· Watering and mowing your grass
· Edging, using a weedeater, and blowing your driveways, sidewalks, and curbed areas adjacent to your home and street.
· Weeding beds
It is most important to maintain a healthy lawn so that “seeds from weeds” do not drift to neighbors’ lawns.
In addition, distribute mulch, nuggets, or pinestraw at least twice a year to enhance your property. Trees and shrubbery must be trimmed and pruned periodically and must not cause any obstruction to neighboring foot and road traffic.
Don’t allow leaves, sticks, limbs, etc. from trees accumulate on your lawn or in paved areas adjacent to your property.
If you have bare dirt areas in your yard due to tree roots, shade, etc., cover these areas either by resodding (if possible) or by expanding your beds with plants and pinestraw, mulch, or nuggets.
Grind up any conspicuous tree stumps or incorporate them into a plant bed and cover with mulch or pinestraw.
If you have dead or missing shrubs in front, you need to replace them, preferably in the fall or spring when temperatures are cooler. You may want to choose low maintenance, drought tolerant plants.
Remember that any major landscape changes need to be submitted to the Architectural Committee for approval. Check the guidelines on this website.
If you cannot do this maintenance yourself, there are many reputable lawn service and lawn maintenance companies available at reasonable prices. Curb appeal not only enhances the overall appearance of the subdivision, but also it helps to improve our property values.
Also, why not pick up those newspapers, flyers, yard service signs, any trash, in a timely fashion? Store lawn equipment, mulch bags, and buckets out of sight. Help “decutter” the neighborhood.