May Tips & Tricks

May Tips & Tricks

Lawn • Apply slow release nitrogen fertilizer to bluegrass and tall fescue to promote summer growth if watering during the summer. Lower maintenance lawns skip this application. If there are broadleaf weeds you can spot treat with a spray or use a fertilizer that includes a weed killer. Rain or irrigation within 24 hours of […]

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Therapy

Therapy

Dishes are dirty, laundry needs folded, the baby is crying and there is company coming on Saturday!  Aah! There are moments in each person’s life that bring on stress.  While I do not have a baby crying currently, I have watched my brother try to accomplish things with his seven-week-old son nearby.  It is quite […]

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Cut Flower Gardening

Cut Flower Gardening

Part of the joy of growing flowers at home is cutting and displaying those flowers in your home.  With proper planning, you can have flowers available for cutting from early spring until killing frosts arrive in autumn.  A wide range of suitable plants are available.   Location Most gardeners will incorporate cutting type cultivars into […]

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Designing Your Landscape for your House (and You!)

Designing Your Landscape for your House (and You!)

“Look at those shrubs; they are way too big for that spot.” “They have no landscape at all!” These and other statements are often heard by my patient wife and kids on drives to the city. Being a landscape designer and lover of architecture encourage me to proclaim these ideas. This past weekend my family […]

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Plant Showcase: Deciduous Conifers for the Central Great Plains

Plant Showcase: Deciduous Conifers for the Central Great Plains

What is a conifer? A conifer is defined as a plant that produces naked seeds in cones or single naked seeds. We think of conifers with cones as pine, spruce, fir, juniper, yew, and arborvitae, but there are four deciduous conifers that we can grow in our region. An evergreen that loses its leaves, you […]

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