January 2022 Snow Pictures!
‘Mohave’ Pyracantha The new year has been a joy to take some time from the landscape job sites to visit the botanical gardens to get some snow pics! Pyracantha is…
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December Landscape Tips
Keep heavy layers of leaves raked from the lawn. Change out your containers with boxwood, bright colored evergreen clippings, small holly or twig dogwood add winter interest. If you like…
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November Landscape Tips
Now is a great time to fertilize your lawn, trees and shrubs. Liming is best done in the fall. It can take over a year for the lime to become…
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October Landscape Tips
Got leaves? Don’t be like Jake and wait unit it’s too late! Get them rakes up before they get too thick! Before you have them hauled off site consider making…
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September Landscape Tips
Order or purchase bulbs by October 1 for best availability and choice selections. Store the bulbs in a cool, dry room until you plant them late October to Thanksgiving. Winter…
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August Garden Tips
Continue dead heading annuals, perennials and roses to keep them blooming until frost. Make your last trim on shrubs like boxwood, holly, and loropetalum so that the new growth can…
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July Landscape Tips
Annuals Back to front: salvia, lantana, ageratum mixed with diamond frost euphoria July is a good month to prune “bleeder” trees like maples, dogwood, elm, birch and other trees that…
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June Landscape Tips
Start dead heading plants after their first flush of flowers to encourage second blooms on plants such as black-eye Susan, catmint and herbs including lavender. Pictured are Daylily ‘Always Afternoon,’…
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May Landscape Tips
Loropetalum ‘Crimson Fire’ with a yellow barberry in the background. Now is a great time to prune back and over grown loropetalum plants. They can be cut back to the…
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April Landscape Tips
April 14 is the AVERAGE last frost date in Knoxville. Wait until then at least to plant tender annuals. Remember to cover tender Japanese maple foliage in the event of…
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Annuals 2022
It is time to start planning and planting your annuals after the last frost date (typically April 15) If your are like me and you get spring fever, you start…
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