Dealing with Drought in Landscapes
During the heat and dry spells of summer, it can be challenging to keep your landscape looking beautiful. As the season progresses, plants often show signs of stress due to
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: On Weather & Plant Resiliency, Part 1
“The severe winter of 1737 and the drought over the previous months had left the…box hedges that bordered the flower beds looking brown and parched. Even though…three had watered the
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: The Shade Trees of Summer, part 1
This is the first part of a two-part series of the shade trees of summer. In this post we'll discuss honey locust, American sycamore, willow oak, tuliptree, and Weeping Purple
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Growing Your Business With Shortstop 2SC
At first, glance, our paclobutrazol product Shortstop 2SC may just be useful for inhibiting vegetative growth. However, it has numerous effects that not only benefit plants, but can help grow
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: On Mulches and Mulching for Improving Plant Resiliency
(or, Mulch Ado About Nothing!) A mulch is a material that covers the earth. In woodlands, fallen leaves form an organic mulch. Organic mulches are food for “worms”, which here
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How to Apply Plant Growth Regulators for Trees and Shrubs
Plant Growth Regulators (PGRs) are organic compounds (besides nutrients and water) that modify plant physiological processes. They are widely used in commercial landscaping, golf course maintenance, and municipal building grounds-keeping.
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Pruning Shrubs that Flower on New Wood
How to know whether or not a shrub blooms on new or old wood? Shrubs that bloom on old wood form flower buds the previous season. Spring flowering trees and
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: When Bugs Go Wrong – Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
The hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) is an insect native to Japan. It was first detected in the U.S. in Virginia early in the 1950s and now covers the entire
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Black Locust – A Phenological Indicator Tree of Emerald Ash Borer and its Effects on Native Ash Trees
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a native tree in the family Fabaceae, the legumes, which makes it a relative of peas and beans. Like those plants, it forms association with
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Joe’s Journal, Spring edition: Green Ash and Emerald Ash Borer
Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) is a native tree that occurs over much of the eastern and central US and into Canada and Nova Scotia. It has several distinct characteristics that
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