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 Comments are closed  Design, ezine, News, Products, wildlife  fish, pond, pondless, water features, waterfalls This is an updated version of the plant care sheet that I give my customers, who often ask about how to best prune a variety of different plants. Feel free to copy it and keep it in a handy place! Evergreens: Evergreens that grow continuously can be pruned or sheared anytime during the growing . . . → Read More: Pruning: the basics Comments are closed ezine, News, Plant Care evergreens, plant care, plant how to, pruning, shrubs, trees A while back, I got a call from my sister-in-law Peg Johnson, who lives in Portage, Wisconsin. The conversation went something like this: “Say, I was wondering…. I know you build ponds and water features, and, well, I think I’m ready for one myself. How ’bout coming over to Portage and putting one in . . . → Read More: Peg’s Pond There are two types if plants that attract butterflies. They are 1) a nectar source for the butterfly, and 2) a food source for the larvae to feed on. The more you have of each, the better your chances are of attracting a wide variety of butterflies to your garden. You should also include . . . → Read More: Building a Butterfly Garden Part II Building a Butterfly Garden: First Things First! Along with the increased interest in the use of native plants for landscaping, butterfly watching has come right alongside it and has become a popular pastime. By choosing the right plants, anyone can create a butterfly garden, whether it be in a space as small as an . . . → Read More: Building a Butterfly Garden Over watering, improper soil conditions and applying too much mulch are the leading cause of plant fatalities in new landscape plantings. If applied properly, a good landscape mulch can be one of the best things you can do to maintain good health for your landscape plants. Improperly applied, and it can be one of . . . → Read More: Use the Proper Amount of Mulch on Your Plantings. Those doggone walnuts. They are one of our most valuable hardwood tree species, but they can be a real nuisance in the home landscape. Each year, several people will ask me why they can’t seem to get anything to grow under their walnut tree. Just the other day I was at a customer’s house . . . → Read More: What Will Grow Under My Walnut Tree? If you have deer in your neighborhood, chances are that you have seen them taking a lunch break on in your yard, enjoying one of the new shrubs (or perennials) that you just purchased. And you thought it was just the right plant for the right space. It looks like the deer agree with . . . → Read More: How to keep Deer away from your plants Occasionally I’ll run across something on the web that I’d like to pass on, whether it be an important issue, or just a fun fact. In this case, it’s just a fun fact I found from the U of M Yard and Garden News. There are some deciduous trees that hold their leaves in . . . → Read More: Fun facts from the gardening world If you’re an avid gardener, you have probably seen that the National Arbor Day Foundation has released an updated version of the U.S Department of Agriculture’s hardiness zone map, which was last updated in 1990. The NADF has used data from 5000 National Climatic Data Center stations around the country from the last 15 . . . → Read More: Is Global Warming here? New Plant Hardiness Zones |
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