Joe’s Journal, Fall Edition: Fall Tree Care
There’s quite a bit more to fall tree care than raking leaves alone. Fall is an ideal time for a comprehensive tree care program. Weeding, applying fertilizer and mulch around
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Joe’s Journal, Fall Edition: Fall Flower Gardening
Did you know you can get a jump start a spring flower garden this fall? Prepping the site for planting will help insure a healthy start for the next growing
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Joe’s Journal, Fall Edition: A Reversion to Sports
In one of our last blog, we highlighted fasciation, a unique – and often strange – plant growth. In this issue, we’ll turn to plant sports! Ever wonder where the
Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Fall is For Fertilizing!
It’s past mid-summer, and trees and woody shrubs have set dormant buds in preparation for overwintering. Woody perennial plants may seem inactive, but far from it. Below ground, roots continue
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Caterpillars and Sawflies
We get plenty of pests in our home garden. It helps to be able to identify what you’ve found, so you know which plants may be at risk and then
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Seasonal Blooms
Diversity is not only the spice of life, but is its very foundation! In this blog, we will follow the sequence of blooms of the trees, shrubs and perennials in
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: The Fragrant Garden
Landscape garden design involves three elements: form (size, texture), color, and fragrance. Flowering trees, shrubs, and vines waft fragrant and sometimes transcendent olfactory aromatics right at your doorstep, with just
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Summer Garden Tasks
Long days bring with it the hope of lush growth in the garden and landscape. Of course, lushness is an invite to some unwelcome visitors. Here is a short list
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: The Research Scientist Ventures Afield
Evan Sorger, Research Associate Scientist at Arborjet | Ecologel, took his skills afield visiting our farm plot in Western North Carolina. The goal was to make tree injection applications to
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition – Gardening with Granulars
Let’s discuss granular fertilizers! Why even use a granular? And what are some of the ways you can use them in landscape plantings and in potted plant culture? There are
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