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Barrington Tree Experts

PO Box 23
Barrington, IL 60011 847-381-0757

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L Brothers Landscaping & Snow Plowing

106 Barrington Commons Ct
Barrington, IL 60010 847-344-8867

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All Around Landscaping Contr

519 Rue Chamonix
Barrington, IL 60010 847-726-2001

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Bob's Landscaping

23147 W Long Grove Rd
Deer Park, IL 60010 847-381-2030

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Executive Landscape

27W208 Algonquin Rd
Barrington, IL 60010 847-304-9660

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The NL Group

9 Hillside Dr
Barrington, IL 60010 847-277-2554

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Since most garden centers buy—rather than raise—most of what they sell, there is room for tremendous variation in buying standards and the quality of plants being sold. The opinions we collected from consumers on garden centers reflect these big differences.

On occasion your trees might become shady characters, done in—and perhaps ultimately brought down—by disease or damage or both. Here's how to find a great branch manager.

Once you have chosen a company that can do the work well, price becomes your primary consideration. Our undercover shoppers found huge company-to-company price differences for the same jobs.

You don’t have to be an expert to spot many potential tree problems. Like most plants, trees have ways of indicating distress. Examine your trees several times a year for these signs of trouble.

Kermit the Frog once crooned “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” If you have a lawn, you can relate: It’s not easy keeping things green. Here's how to plot a course, whether you call in the pros or go it alone.

The proposals Checkbook's undercover shoppers get from lawn care services rarely agree on identification of weed species, presence of disease, need to correct soil acidity, and recommendations on core aeration.

Lawn care services work with different products and techniques, but the results they promise are similar. Companies usually offer customers a selection of “packages” that include specified treatment plans to take place over the course of a year.