
The next 5-15 days are probably the best window of opportunity during the entire year for transplanting trees, shrubs and perennials. Now that the ground has thawed in most places, you can dig wide enough and deep enough to capture a generous amount of …
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We take great pride in growing quality plant material and presenting many harder to find varieties of all plants - trees, shrubs and perennials, as well as the more standard varieties. We are expanding the number and different varieties of plants that we grow in our air pruning containers also. A week ago - …
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I’m always amazed when I hear from customers that they have been told by other “nursery professionals” that newly planted trees and shrubs should not be fertilized. This would be true if you want your new plantings to grow and establish slowly, display poor color, flower weakly and remain … Continue Reading ››
Over the last year, I have been observing more and more examples of what I suspect is cumulative stress on trees, shrubs and perennials. Thinning of formerly thick plants, smaller leaves, dead branches or branch tips, poor color, split bark, holes in the bark, bark lesions/dead areas, or total collapse/death of the plant have all …
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Success with summer plantings of trees, shrubs and perennials is highly likely when you follow a few simple steps that fulfill the basic needs of the plant materials. If you follow these steps to fulfill the needs of the landscape plants, you will succeed no matter whether you plant in spring, summer or … Continue Reading ››
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