Spotlight Plants

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...