Category: Landscape Tip

Keep heavy layers of leaves raked from the lawn. Change out your containers with boxwood, bright colored evergreen clippings, small

Now is a great time to fertilize your lawn, trees and shrubs. Liming is best done in the fall. It

Get them rakes up before they get too thick! Before you have them hauled off site consider making a compost

Order or purchase bulbs by October 1 for best availability and choice selections. Store the bulbs in a cool, dry

Continue dead heading annuals, perennials and roses to keep them blooming until frost. Make your last trim on shrubs like

July is a good month to prune “bleeder” trees like maples, dogwood, elm, birch and other trees that bleed when

Start dead heading plants after their first flush of flowers to encourage second blooms on plants such as black-eye Susan,

Now is a great time to prune back and over grown loropetalum plants. They can be cut back to the

April 14 is the AVERAGE last frost date in Knoxville. Wait until then at least to plant tender annuals. Remember

Time to cut back the grasses. For monkey grass or liriope, use a string trimmer or weed eater for larger