Just received this from Ned Stock, a friend, client and Broker with Incline Village Coldwell Banker realty. “Mark and his company have helped us with landscaping and grounds maintenance for over 4 years. They are reliable, reasonable, and responsible. I highly recommend Mark and Estate Landscape to all my real estate clients and friends.”   Thanks [...]

There has been a lot of coverage recently about illegal emigrant workers in the United States. I want to assure you that my employees are here legally and have the permission of the U.S. State Department to work here. This permission doesn’t come easily or inexpensively. Each season here at Estate Landscape, I have to [...]

With virtually no snow pack so far this winter, I have had several calls about whether or not to water your gardens. These are my recommendations for the Tahoe and Truckee areas only. Lower elevation cities (Roseville, Cisco Grove, Reno, and Carson City) should be watering once or twice a month until there is regular [...]

Want A Great Looking Truckee or Tahoe Garden In August and September? Here’s How      www.estatelandscape.com Often gardeners look at their soils and see the top surface is dry. Don’t panic! The practice of encouraging plant roots to go deeper is helped by letting the top one inch dry out a bit. If you are [...]

TRUCKEE-TAHOE LANDSCAPER DONATES NEW GARDENS  FOR COMMUNITY BEAUTIFICATION (INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA) , June 2, 2011 —  While locals wonder if summer will ever get here,  Truckee-Tahoe landscape company, Estate Landscape, has taken the season into its own hands and donated new landscape and flower gardens to bring life to key corners of our community.  As [...]

“Want to help “stimulate” the economy? Start locally first. One way to do this? Don’t hire an unlicensed contractor. There is a huge group of unlicensed contractors in our country. The term “underground economy” describes those that present homeowners with costs to perform work on their home and those “contractors” are not legally permitted to [...]

  After your garden has been planted, to keep flowers blooming year after year, removing the spent blooms is an important part of plant care. Most flowers will bloom again in the future when they are deadheaded. If they are not deadheaded, the plant will stop flowering and go to seed. A sharp pair of [...]

Truckee and Tahoe landscapes are waking up after a long winter. Here are some early flowering plants to watch for. I did my usual spring clean up a couple weeks ago (I live where there wasn’t much left) and my garden plants looked like they made it through the winter OK. Thanks to some wrapping [...]

Estate Landscape & Irrigation, Inc. owner, Mark Osberg, Incline Village-Truckee Landscaper since 1990, finished up a Recertification Exam today for testing of Backflow devices.  Ready to test for another 3 years!    Mark’s first Backflow Tester Certification was in 1998.

SPRING TIP- PERFECT TIME TO FERTILIZE With Spring here, plants are starting to grow and will need “food”, just like we do. Incline Village and Truckee will need that application within a week. Tahoe City and the West Shore will be another month or so. A good indicator of the right timing is when the [...]