Installing a new landscape can be a fun transformation for your property. Out with the old and in with the new. When reworking a landscape, it typically means many new plants. I occasionally will get the questions about how the plants are going to be back filled. The most common back filling question is about bringing in new soil to do the back filling. Back filling is the task of…
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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…
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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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