Happy New Year! We hope this message finds you well and that you had a wonderful holiday season. As we step into 2025, we are excited to share the latest updates, reminders, and upcoming events for our community.
Neighborhood Updates:
The HOA is excited to kick off 2025 with several improvement projects planned for the year, including [list major projects like landscaping, pool upgrades, etc.]. Stay tuned for updates on timelines and progress. Despite the chilly start to the year, we hope everyone, especially the kids, enjoyed the recent snow day! Your HOA has been hard at work since the holidays, coordinating and organizing plans to enhance our neighborhood. To ensure consistent upkeep and improvements, we have formed a dedicated landscape committee that is already getting to work. At the end of this update, you will find our 5-year plan and also link to our 2025 Budget.
Our first priority is improving the trails. Many areas have become overgrown and require cleanup. Starting Jan. 28th, a crew will begin clearing the main trail, and the work is expected to be completed within a week. In addition to the cleanup, we plan to name the main trail and add signage. Also, An exciting discovery was made by one of our neighbors—a potential “Trail tree” along the trail. We have reached out to an organization for more information about this unique feature and will keep you updated (The tree may be a good Trail name). These trail improvements are part of a larger effort to beautify and add value to our community, and we can’t wait to see you on the Trails!
Lawnscape Tips:
As we wish for warmer days here are a few landscape tips for January that can help your home’s landscape look its best come spring and summer.
- Winterize your irrigation if you have not done so already-this includes shutting off the water supply to your irrigation by turning off the isolation valve. The isolation valve prevents irrigation water from entering our domestic supply. This helps prevent broken pips when it is time to start your system up in late spring/summer.
- Blow leaves off your lawn. Ideally this should have been done in the fall but blowing leaves from the lawn and into your landscape beds/natural areas prevents turf disease. The leaves make a great compost material for your garden as well.
- For your Bermuda/Zoysia lawns also known as warm season lawns (the ones that are brown not green) a pre-emergent, crabgrass and weed preventive product should be applied at manufactures recommendations once you notice Forsythia blooming-typically mid to late February. This application is critical to prevent crabgrass and other broadleaf weeks in your warm season lawn.
- Do not forget to winterize your lawn mower by using fuel additive like Sta-bill again at manufactured rates to prevent the fuel from separating and causing issues when you go to use the lawn mower in spring.
- For Fescue lawn, also know a Cool season lawn (the ones that are somewhat green now) late winter fertilization provides nutrients available to lawn once the weather begins to warm and provides that early season green up, we all love to see.
- If you have not mulched your landscape beds now is a great time to get that done. No more than 3” of either pine staw or mulch products are needed and placing them directly over the leaves you blow into your beds is just fine. One side note is to keep the mulch away from the truck of the plant/tree to prevent the base of the plant from rot due to excess moisture at the base.
- Lastly, time to prune the Crape myrtles-please avoid Crape Murder by hard pruning these plants. Ther are many resources for proper crape pruning.
We hope these ideas are helpful and more to come.
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