Category: Landscaping

  • Trees Down?

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    How to Deal With Trees in a Storm If you have ever watched trees in a storm, you know it can be scary. It’s an uncomfortable feeling when uncontrollable forces of nature are at work and all you can do is cross your fingers that a heavy branch or tree won’t fall on your home…

  • Clover lawns

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    Benefits A nitrogen-fixing plant, clover brings nutrients to your soil. You do not need to fertilize You do not need to water excessively Clover tolerates compacted soil better than lawn grasses You do not need to weed lawn You do not need to mow Plant clover in spring or late summer/early fall What kind of…

  • Go Native, a Garden Story

    Go Native, a Garden Story

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    There’s nothing more pleasing than discovering a wild, sun drenched meadow on one of my planned hikes. I’m always amazed at the natural pattern of repeated growth produced over and over again. Native plants live in balance with the ecosystem. Observing natures timely propagation always fills me with excitement. I wait with muted anticipation to…

  • Invasive Plants-Avoid

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    An invasive plant is a species non-native to the ecosystem. Whether accidental or intentional, they will cause harm to the environment, economy and/or human health. Invasive plants grow rapidly and spread quickly. They have few diseases and are difficult to control. Once invasive plants are established they are extremely difficult to get rid of. Cutting,…

  • Before the Chill Mow That Lawn One More Time

    Before the Chill Mow That Lawn One More Time

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    Mow that lawn one more time and feed a hawk. With the onset of (gulp ) cooler weather, remind yourself of the threat of field mice and other rodents. Furry neighbors that like a warm place to visit for the winter months– inside our homes! A final mow will remove the pests’s hiding place and…

  • How to Honor a Veteran Today and Everyday

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    It was one hundred years ago. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, it was the end of the “war to end all wars.” That day, to be observed annually on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, became known as Armistice Day. Later on, it became known as Veterans…