Monthly Archives: November 2017

  1. Indoor Winter Citrus Care

    This is the time of the year when all citrus grown in cold climates is brought indoors for winter protection. There are a few critical considerations that will allow your citrus plant to adapt to being indoors and stay healthy until it is put back outside

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  2. Protect Trunks of Young, Newly Planted Trees

    Newly planted young trees, fruit trees, ornamental cherries and pear trees, and those more expensive grafted weeping ornamental specimen plants are easily damaged from rodents and rabbits during the winter months.  If the bark is chewed off all around

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  3. Don’t Prune Lilacs During Fall or Early Spring

    Check out the big, fat, juicy buds already showing on this Lilac bush in early November.  That big bud will produce the flower next spring so do not do any cutting on them or you will be removing the flowers that are already in place. 

    Just l

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  4. Powdery Mildew on your Peony Plants?

    We have been seeing powdery mildew on the leaves of Peony plants in some areas.  Weather conditions vary greatly in areas across the country and that will change the severity of infection on some of the Peony varieties. 

    Some selections just d

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  5. Keep Your Hosta Collection Healthy

    If you are like us, you like collecting different Hosta plants for your yard.  The diversity of size and color is endless and the new cultivars continue to be introduced every year. 

    Keep your Hosta collection healthy and happy.  Wait until ja

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  6. Keep on Shredding Leaves

    The leaves continue to fall onto your lawn.  Don’t get out your rake…but get out your lawn mower!

    As you see those leaves fall, one of the best things you can do is to just run your power mower over the tops of the leaves as they fall.  Eve

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  7. Water Your Evergreens This Fall

    So many areas are experiencing hot and dry weather.  If you are in one of those dry areas, an excellent thing to do is give your new & established evergreen plants a good drink of water as we begin

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  8. Caring For Rose Bushes

    Rose bushes produce some of the best formed flowers of the season as the temperatures cool.  Keep deadheading your roses to encourage more flowers right up until the end of the season.

    Some roses (like the hardy rugosa types) do produce attractive

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  9. My Rhododendrons Are Losing Leaves This Fall - Is This Normal?

    Rhododendrons and Azaleas, what is the difference anyway? 

    All Rhododendrons are evergreen which means that they will hold leaves all winter long.  Most Azaleas on the other hand (under the same Genus of Rhododendron) will lose their leaves a

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  10. Pine Needles Make Great Mulch

    pine needles in the fall

    Every year about this time we start getting phone calls from people who are concerned about their pine trees losing needles.  Pine trees are evergreens which means they do hold needles all year round  but that does not mean they hold the same needles y

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