Flores Artscape Announces Dog-friendly Landscaping Service in Los Angeles

Dog-friendly landscaping is a new service for leading Los Angeles landscape design and installation company, Flores Artscape. Their goal is to create a perfect environment where both the homeowner and his best friend can enjoy a healthy and aesthetic landscape.

Los Angeles, United States - October 3, 2018 /PressCable/ —

Flores Artscape, a leading landscape design and installation company in Los Angeles, is promoting a new service—dog-friendly landscaping. Feedback from dog-owners has allowed Flores to develop a service tailored to the needs of our canine friends that works for the owners as well.

For homeowners that prefer grass, Flores Artscape has found St. Augustine to be the best grass solution for dogs in the LA area because of it durability and resistance to pests.

A water-saving, fairly inexpensive alternative to grass is decomposed granite (DG). It’s a type of rock that can be ground down to near sand-sized particles. It has a natural look and is easy on paws. In fact, it’s often used in dog parks. It’s also semi-permeable and easy to clean.

Flores Artscape has a way of stabilizing DG to make it an even more effective solution. (Stabilization makes it smoother and more durable.) Another way they use it is in paths that follow the natural movements of a dog through the landscape.

Some plants are harmful to dogs and should be avoided. The ASPCA has a list of plants harmful to pets. Aloe vera, a popular plant in LA for its low-water needs and medicinal properties, has the opposite effect on dogs. For them, It can cause vomiting and tremors.

According to Eric Wills, a long-time executive at Flores Artscape, some dog-friendly plants they commonly use are windmill palms, purple basil, African daisy, creeping rosemary, pineapple sage, and fennel. He added that lavender, rosemary and mint help reduce fleas.

Other dog-friendly things they consider when consulting with dog owners are places in the landscape for both sunning & shade and solutions for protecting plants. They also suggest using organic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. For dogs that dig under fences, some solutions are chicken wire, pavers or poured concrete depending on the dog species and severity of the problem.

Flores Artscape’s main objective with this new service is to create a perfect environment where both the homeowner and his best friend can enjoy a healthy and aesthetic landscape.

Contact Info:
Name: Jessie Flores
Email: [email protected]
Organization: Flores Artscape
Address: 3959 North Eagle Rock Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90065, United States
Phone: +1-323-666-3510

For more information, please visit https://floresartscape.com/

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