Protecting Your Landscape: How to Prepare for and Minimize Damage from Cicadas
As the warm weather approaches, so do the sounds that follow spring air. Early mornings are filled with songs from birds migrating back to their homes, looking for a friend, and looking for a meal. And every 13 or 17 years comes a different type of song that brings back a memory like a photograph. […]
Boxwood Trivia
Boxwood are one of the most versatile and elegant of evergreen shrubs. They have very shallow roots, can tolerate most conditions and be used in both formal and informal settings. It are theses characteristics that make them so desirable today. Their popularity is not new. Although grains for a species was found in England as far back […]
Hire a Professional
You hear it all the time. If you are gong to hire someone for a project in your place of business or you home…hire someone who knows what they are doing. Think about it, if you received the news that you required surgery, would you hire someone who had not been to medical school? Probably […]
North Shore Transformation
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Governor Pritzker Signs HB269 – WORKERS’ COMP-ABILITY TO PAY into Law
On July 12, 2019, after six months of persistence and lobbying, Governor Pritzker signed HB269 into law. HB269 introduces a series of sweeping reforms to worker’s compensation insurance enforcement and puts a target on the back of all illegal operators who jeopardize their employees’ well-being for fatter profits. ILCA took the lead on drafting this […]
This new rose is a ‘Top Gun’
One of the invaluable advantages of our sister company Montale Gardens is they introduce us to new plants. Particularly plants that replace other plants that have developed issues. ‘Top Gun’ Rose is one of those. Last year they brought this gem in as an alternative to ‘Knock Out,’ which when it came on the scene, […]
ILCA 2020 Gold Award Winner: The English Garden
It is not often a client of many years’ states that it is time to start over. A needed house addition forced a rethink of a visually stunning mature landscape. However, a silver lining was present. Although the client loved his yard, water issues had plagued it for many years putting stress on the existing […]
ILCA 2020 Gold Award Winter: Entertainment Retreat
Mature trees, water issues and outdated landscaping, were the issues that started this project. Our master planning took several different directions which started with us confronting a front yard that had no structure, extremely small entertainment spaces, and standing water around the entire 2.5 acre property that were causing issue around, and inside, the house. […]
Unexpected Beauty: Managing Your Property’s Premature Awakening With Confidence
Spring has an elegant way of ushering in a season of renewal and awakening, often bursting with color and the sounds of new life. A tale as old as time and as true as it ever was: “The early bird catches the worm.” However, this year, Mother Nature seems to have added a little pep […]
February Newsletter 2022
A Message from our President I humbly welcome you to a happy new year. Humbly because it has been a journey for many of us. There is something about adversity that brings out the best in people. I feel that way about our team. They have continually come to work during a pandemic, following our […]