Practical Tips (Getting Your Hands Dirty)

Practical advice to help you make your landscape look it’s best.

The future of mulch, or what to do with barren soil in the landscape

In shade, consider planting oak sedge (a native woodland grass-like plant), epimedium, sweet woodruff, and creeping phlox. For a neater appearance, give the oak sedge a hard haircut on a warm day February or early March before the new foliage starts to grow. This is the same operation that you do for your ornamental grasses, …

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Practical Tree Planting Advice – Twine, Burlap, and Wire Baskets

When plants are dug in the nursery, burlap is tightly pinned, sewn, or tied around the soil ball so the ball doesn’t fall apart during handling. For large trees, this soil ball may be placed in a wire basket for added protection. If the tree is going to be above ground for awhile, some nurseries …

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