Archive for the ‘Fall Gardening’ Category

Avoid Winter Damage to Evergreens

Get Those Evergreens Ready for a Tough Winter All the weather predictions for this winter are that the Northeast will be hammered once again with icy conditions and lots of snow thanks to La Nina. This means you can count on your evergreens taking a lot of abuse unless you take measures to protect them [...]

The Value of Mulching Leaves On Site

Watching Those leaves Pile Up? We all pay to deal with our leaves. The question is, are we getting any return on them? I have been watching all the organic material piling up, and the village people taking them away from our streets to be trucked up to Orange County  to be composted. Thank goodness [...]

Freak Snow Storms

Storm Damage…. With the early winter storm that occurred in the Northeast this week there are a lot of landscape related reverberations. These have to do first and foremost with safety, plant health, and long term planning for the future which may seem like something of a joke give the level of uncertainty many of [...]

Some Quick Fall Tips:

Starting to Close Down the Garden: Plant spring flowering bulbs: I know your mind is rapidly drifting indoors, but before you close the door on the garden altogether, plant some bulbs for next spring. They are inexpensive and worth the investment of time. Cut down stems and foliage of herbaceous perennials after two or three [...]

Naturizing Bulbs

Planting “Greener” Fall Bulbs: Fall is bulb planting time, but many bulbs though strong bloomers in the first year will peter out in the second and third. In carefully selecting and planting bulbs that naturalize to our climate, you can get greater value in planting bulbs that are considered more sustainable. None of the decorative [...]

Fertilizing in the Early Fall

Fall Feeding Fall is a very active period for landscape plant material. Not unlike the property owners, the plants are gearing up for their winter slumber and this takes a lot of energy. Some of that energy is stored energy from  the summer, and we want to minimize plants drawing on that stored energy  so [...]

Fall Tips

Sorry for the long hiatus from this blog! I was awy on vacation for two weeks-got to see some awesome greenroofs in Singapore and the rain forest in Bali- and then had to pull all the pieces together upon my return. Technically summer ends September 21st, but anyone with kids know the jigs up after labor [...]

Fall Facelift Landscape Special

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Gardening in December

December Gardening You can still plant in December. Plants are going dormant and they don’t mind being planted in this phase. Transplanting is also permitted, though I would avoid moving larger plant material, particularly evergreens. As long as the ground is not frozen, plants can be tucked into it for the winter. You can still [...]

Fall Activities

Things That Need Doing In the Fall Fall is a great time for planting, so if you’re seeing any bargains on plants you have lusted after, don’t hold back. It’s also a good time for transplanting materials and splitting perennials. This is because as it gets cooler, most plants are slowing down and shutting down [...]