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CREATIVE LANDSCAPES 'Elegant Environments for Your Home' |
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Garden Planner: March |
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Winter releases its grip and there is lots to do in the garden! Pruning: Check all your trees and shrubs for damage from ice and snow storms. Shape evergreens and remove dead and damaged wood from shrubbery. Cut down Ornamental Grasses to about 6-9 inches, remove old stems from Red-Twig Dogwoods and Hydrangeas. Cut back summer blooming shrubs such as Buddleia, Spirea, and Caryopteris. Thin out and prune back Roses. Call us for details of our pruning program. Gutters and Grading: Ice can damage gutters. Check your gutters for low spots, and clear out any debris. Then attend to regrading around the house to prevent water from coming in or collecting in low spots. Plant deciduous trees, such as Cherries, Flowering Apples, and Magnolias, before they bloom, and shade trees such as Maples, Birches and Zelkovas before they leaf out. Transplant large deciduous shrubs, like cut-leafed Japanese Maples as soon as the ground is workable in mid March Edging, Mulching and Feeding: Edge your flower beds. Add 'Garden-tone', 4-6-4, or Bonemeal and cover with a layer of Mushroom Soil. Feed roses after removing any mulch piled up against the stems. Edge shrubbery beds, and add double shredded hardwood bark mulch as needed. Feed azaleas, and rhododendrons if not done in the fall. Grass Seeding: This is the time to fix those bare patches in the lawn. Scratch the surface, add lime and starter fertilizer, spread the seed, back rake it in, and roll the seed into the ground with a roller. Cover lightly with salt hay. Vegetables: As soon as the ground has dried to a moist consistency, work in compost, manure and organic fertilizers, design your layout, and plant seeds of Lettuce, Spinach, Beets, Chard and Radish. Plant peas every two weeks from March 15th to April 15th. Wildflowers: For a spectacular display in the summer overseed an annual wildflower mix into an existing wildflower garden. Hardy flowers such as Larkspur, Silenes, and Hesperis can also be seeded directly into flower beds. Call Creative Landscapes for all your Landscaping projects! A list of our services is at the What we do page. Check the Garden Planner next month and every month to have the best garden in your neighborhood! Happy gardening from the folks at Creative Landscapes! |
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