Some of our favorite plants for the season!
Spotlight Plants
Karen Azalea
Karen Azalea is a spring-blooming shrub that delivers a beautiful burst of color just as your garden is waking up for the season. Known for its vibrant lavender-pink flowers and compact, rounded habit, this deciduous azalea is a favorite for foundation plantings, borders, and woodland edges. Blooming in mid-to-late spring, Karen Azalea produces masses of rosy purple blossoms with a hint of red in the throat, creating a striking contrast against its glossy, dark green foliage. The flowers cover the shrub in a bold display that lasts for weeks — right when your spring bulbs are finishing and summer perennials are just starting to grow. Karen Azalea grows to about 3 to 4 feet tall and wide, making it a versatile choice for smaller garden spaces or as a colorful accent in larger landscapes. It has a tidy, mounding shape and looks especially nice when planted in groups or layered into a...
Container Storage – concrete/ceramic pots
This month, before the snow begins falling be sure to dump and clean out any planter boxes/pots and store them inside. Old planting material should be dumped onto a compost pile or taken somewhere off the property to be disposed of. Concrete planters that are too...
Chemical Storage
Now that the plants are tucked away and the tools/equipment are cleaned and stored, there is nothing left to do until next season right? Not quite. Most do-it-yourselfers have purchased some sort of pesticide or fertilizer whether in liquid or granular form, during...
Prevent Antler Damage
During the months of buck rut, young trees are most vulnerable to bark damage that occurs when bucks rub their antlers against the bark. Unfortunately, deer don’t have a tree preference and the behavior strips off bark creating large wounds leaving the tree open to...
Mighty Chocolate Cherry Astilbe
Cherry and chocolate not only make great pairings for dessert, but they also make a great pairing in your garden. At nearly 4’ tall, towering cherry-red plumes atop chocolate-red stems will brighten the shadier spots of the landscape in mid-summer. When the flowering...
Prairie Stature Oak
An outstanding durable hardwood to have in your landscape is the Prairie Stature Oak. Pyramidal in shape and quite dense in form, this shade tree will reach a height of 30-40’ with a spread of about 25-30’. In the spring and summer, the leathery lobed leaves are...
Raspberry Splash Lungwort
Want your cake and be able to eat it too? With the Raspberry Splash Lungwort, you can do just that. Most homeowners have at least one area that is just too shady for growing anything colorful and often resort to planting hostas. Now you can mix it up as this perennial...