Good morning! Spring has finally decided to make an appearance and what a lovely sight it is. Daffodils and forsythia are showing their beautiful yellows far and wide, hedge cherries with their ethereal pale pink blossoms are popping and plants are appearing in the garden. It makes you want to sit in the middle of it and just sigh. (Well, it does that to me anyway.) I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day and was afforded proper appreciation. Being a mother, after all, is one of the toughest jobs anyone can do. Today, I'm going to cover a few more spring chores and answer some questions posed by more than one person. So, here we go. ...
Utility companies in New Jersey are allowed to craft their own guidelines for trimming trees around power lines, many of which were pulled down by branches that snapped under the weight of late October's surprise snowfall, causing widespread outages. And the state Board of Public Utilities, which approves those guidelines, does not routinely check to see if the companies are complying with them.
In Kitty Belendez's backyard in Saugus, scads of thorny branches fall to the ground. Belendez, a master rosarian and co-founder of the 200-member Santa Clarita Valley Rose Society, directs her husband, Bob, in pruning the last of her assorted 350 roses.
Well suited to Memphis, the origins of the common crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) can be traced to China and Korea. In the1790's, it was first planted in Charleston, S.C. During our hot summers, the crape myrtle's prolific blooms provide colorful accents to our urban forest. But during the winter months some crape myrtles are mutilated to short, distorted forms by improper pruning. When these topped trees send out new growth the stems will be broom-like and weak.
PHOENIX - An 86-year-old Arizona man whose eye socket was impaled with a pair of pruning shears said Tuesday he experienced excruciating pain during the ordeal and feels lucky to be alive. Leroy Luetscher, a Wisconsin native who now lives in Green Valley in southern Arizona, said he had just finished trimming plants in his backyard on July 30 when he lost his balance and fell on the pruning shears.
This Saturday the Purdue Extension Service of Vanderburgh County will hold its annual landscape pruning demonstration from 9 a.m. to noon, free to all. We will be holding the demonstration at Hartman's Arboretum on Indiana 65 (Big Cynthiana Road), about one-half mile north of Indiana 66 (Diamond Avenue). Look for the German Township Boosters sign on the west side of the road.
The cold weather and snow we have been having is hardly conducive to thinking about the yard or what needs to be done to be ready for the spring season. But we still need to begin dreaming and planning. We even need to address maintenance issues like pruning. Today, let's talk a little about pruning evergreen plants. Evergreens are those plants that still have "green" leaves or needles on them in spite of the snow and freezing temperatures. They can be trees, shrubs, vines, or groundcovers. While evergreens need more careful pruning than deciduous plants (those that lose their leaves in winter), in general they rarely need more than a little, if any, pruning on an annual basis. Evergreens are pruned to control height, increase the density of branching, or to shear into special shapes. W...
The West Overton Garden Society will have a free pruning seminar from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the West Overton Gardens in Scottdale. Becky Griffith of Shadowwood Gardens in Latrobe will give instruction on how to properly prune grapes, raspberries and roses. In case of inclement weather, the seminar will be in the basement of the museum in the Distillery Room.
Even when I am just driving around I see avoidable, fixable mistakes in home landscapes. In lieu of putting notes in a few, individual mailboxes, we'll offer some advice here: Plants in wrong places
All rose bushes need some type of pruning. If they are not pruned for several years, they deteriorate in appearance, often develop more than the usual disease and insect problems and produce smaller flowers. Proper pruning encourages new growth from the base of the plant, making the plant healthier, attractive and with many more blossoms.
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