Landscape beds are an important part in separating your lawn from your landscape. However, the shape of a landscape bed is up to you. We will go over a few points to remember when planning the shape of that landscape bed. It is best to make sure that the design matches the rest of the landscape beds on your property. If you have square corners, then use square corners. If…
Read MoreMulch Ring
A ring of mulch around a tree provides many benefits. That mulch ring will protect the tree, provide for the tree, and help to create a neat appearance for your lawn and landscape. A mulch ring will help to protect the tree in that the mulch adds a buffer strip between the grass and the trunk of the tree. That is important to help to eliminate damage from things like…
Read MoreBenefits of Snow
Some of us love snow, yet, others could live without it. What about our plants? There are many benefits of snow when it comes to protecting and providing for your landscape. When the snow melts in the spring, all of that snow is water. Your plants will take up the moisture. This is especially beneficial because over the winter, when all of the snow is still frozen, the plants are…
Read More2015 Growing Season Wrap Up
Here we are again, at the end of another growing season. Like any growing season from the past, there were some challenges from the weather and pests, and there were some blessings too. The beginning of the 2015 growing season was wet. Not too much, but enough to keep everything watered and happy. By the end of May into early June, that rain turned off, and the lawns started to…
Read MoreStaking Trees
We see newly planted trees that have stakes to “help support the tree” all the time. And many times people will see other trees being staked, and they think, I will stake the new tree that I am going to plant because that is what everyone else is doing. I recommend against that idea. I will explain why. When at Michigan State, we covered staking trees. There are two rules…
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