Evergreens

So I almost titled this “beautiful weekend for yard work” but then realized it might not quite grab your attention if I talked about the work right away…but I will anyway. This weekend we are still awaiting rain, we have drought with out a doubt, meaning our landscape needs even more attention right now. Here…

This is one of Minnesota’s most common diseases on ornamental trees, specifically spruce trees.  This fungus is called Rhizosphaera (needle cast in laymen’s terms).  This fungus is pretty much everywhere on the lawn.  The fungus splashes up to the lower portions of the tree through moisture and works its way upward over many years.  Because it’s…

We have had quite a crazy season here this year so far.  The weather is not quite as I thought I would, or should be.  Not to say that I don’t like the warm, because I do enjoy warm days and not having to bundle up.   But to see this all from the plants perspective does make…

As the warm weather here stretches out in to October many people are more willing to play “clean up” in their landscape (compared to when the weather is cold or rainy and we just hide from it)  and yet some of this beautiful weather can make it hard to know what to do with the plants.…

Brr it was cold this week! I was out covering my garden of tomatoes and was glad I did, as here in Minneapolis we actually did get a good frost.  And that is unusual for the first frost of the season, it usually hit the suburbs hard a few time first. So with that frost…

August is a time for summer parties and enjoying the last days summer (Sure summer goes into September but school is in session so it doesn’t count anymore to most of us)  But it is NOT the time for trimming your trees and shrubs!   There are plenty of other things to be doing in your yard right…

All the time I have clients tell me they want low maintenance.  But some even go so far to say they don’t want any maintenance, to which I reply: even if you had all silk flowers you would still have to dust them to keep them looking good .  There is no such thing as a…