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Garden-Fresh

photos courtesy of Midwest Groundcovers

This can be the time of year to put your landscape to bed and forget about it, but maybe you don’t want to.  Maybe you’re feeling a little bit fresh yourself with the cooler temps and want to add color for the winter months.  Sure you’ve got evergreens in the plants beds and flowering crabs showing off their berries (lovely, by the way), but your impatiens have been frostbitten and your hanging baskets have been chucked for a few weeks now.  What’s a plant-lover to do?

Get a fresh start!  Get excited about WINTER container plantings!  Keep those unbreakable pots out and let your imagination run free.  Before garden centers close up, nab a few hardy evergreens and maybe a dogwood or two.  Scour the woods for interesting branches and pinecones.  Heck, make the kids come with!  Just look at these great ideas here and here.  Are they not awesome??  Among a few others, one of our suppliers has actual “recipes” for instant winter color and cheer.  And just think…this time of year, no coming home to crazy-thirsty plants!

Very Happy Holidays to you and yours.

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Kind of Funny…and Kind of Not

photo by simononly

Have you heard the joke they tell down in Arizona, the one where the parents are talking about how they’re wishing and wishing for rain “not for themselves because they’ve seen it, but for their 8-yr old?”

Ha, ha.  We’re not in quite the same situation here, but we are on the crispy side.  If you have had trees planted in the last 5 years, it would be a great idea to water them once a week.  Let the hose trickle at a medium flow for 1/2 hour at the base of the tree, and that will get them through this drought period.  Shrubs and perennials that are not drought-tolerant could benefit from a weekly drink too–things like roses, hydrangeas, etc.  Plants like ornamental grasses, coneflowers, etc, should be fine.

Questions?  Just give us a call.  We’ll help you out!

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Another Spring, Another Bunch of Babies!

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Who knew the roaring of Bobcats and 2-ton trucks could be such a nice lullaby?  Well one persistent (goofy?) killdeer family line thinks so!

Every spring a killdeer household makes their nest in our tree yard, and we noticed the small eggs have finally hatched.

Watching the parents try to corral the brand new baby birds–and they want none of it–seems a little too familiar but oh-so cute.  Those little ones are born to run!

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The Nerve

Do you see that??  It is the middle of March, people, and there is WEEDING to be done already!?  The nerve!  Didn’t we just get done doing our last fall weeding?  (Although maybe you don’t have weed populations like I do…..)

But hey, I am looking literally at the bright side: not only do weeds like this early spring, but so does tender grass seed, lilacs, crocus, tulips, maples, magnolias…tons of shrubs and perennials are exploding into bloom and leafing out.  No matter how easy this winter was, it’s still a sight for sore eyes.

Welcome back, spring, weeds and all.

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