Archive for the ‘Landscaping’ Category

Common Maintenance Areas – Damage to plants and dumping of debris

Posted on: January 21st, 2020

The landscaping committee was recently made aware of significant damage to numerous plants on common area maintenance slopes in the south mesa behind Brae Mar Court. This included about fifty agave and furcraea plants which are each worth about $40 resulting in over $2000 of damage. It was obvious that the damage was done by […]

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Homeowner Landscaping Responsibilities

Posted on: October 21st, 2019

As a reminder every homeowner is responsible to have well maintained landscaping in the front and back yards as well as on the sides of their homes. This helps to keep the overall community attractive for existing and prospective homeowners. Most plants and trees grow very fast and we need to ensure that everyone is […]

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City Landscaping Enhancements to Paseo de las Flores

Posted on: August 1st, 2019

Many homeonwers may not be aware that the City of Encinitas owns and maintains all of Paseo de las Verdes and Paseo de las Flores up from Quail Gardens Drive to the intersection with Jensen Court. This includes not only the road itself but most of the landscaping as well. The community has lobbied and gained […]

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Problems with neighboring trees or roots?

Posted on: August 1st, 2019

Because of the size of the yards in Encinitas Ranch many homeowners experience problems with neighboring trees encroaching into their yards either with tree limbs or roots. While once upon a time the owner of land was the king of his realm, those are days gone by.  Overhanging limbs or roots from adjacent trees were […]

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Homeowners Landscaping Maintenance

Posted on: May 30th, 2019

One of the key attributes that makes Encinitas Ranch a very sought after community to live is well maintained homes, yards and all of the common areas. Everyone needs to do their part to achieve this objective. This article is just a reminder that we do have formal Architectural and Landscaping Standards in place that […]

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Conversion of landscaping equipment to battery power

Posted on: April 28th, 2019

BrightView, our landscaping contractor, has already converted all of their leaf blowers, weed eaters, edgers and hedge trimmers from gasoline to battery power. They are taking a proactive lead in this area as many communities are advocating for landscaping maintenance equipment to transition to battery or electric power as part of various climate change initiatives. […]

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