14 Feb 2011

Forsythia Will Be Blooming in Six Weeks

That's right.   Somewhere around April Fools Day the forsythia shrubs will be fooling everyone by showing off their  bright shocking yellow color.  The big one in size on the market these days is usually "Meadowlark"    This and many other of the larger forsythias which are sold in our climate zone four, usually can withstand a relatively cold winter and manage to bloom well.   However, even though these plants are  thoroughtly root hardy here, some may...

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14 Feb 2011

Schedule for your Rose “Family” Tree Prunings in February and March

As we have mentioned before some of our favorite flowering and fruiting trees here in the Northland are members of the Rose family.....Anything "Prunus" , the plums, pears, apricots, and cherries, and "Malus" , the apples and crabapples.  Add to this list the Mountain Ashes, Sorbus, and the Hawthorns, Crataegus.   There are a number of shrubs in the Rose family as well, cotoneaster and ninebark, for example, but their value in the garden rarely rises...

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09 Feb 2011

Check Your Roof for Ice Dams…..Call 612-919-5302 if you have a problem!

Would you call this the DEAD of winter?  When I was a kid 70 or so years ago when winters were colder, I think mid-February signaled the Dead part. We haven't seen 25 to 30 below zero temperatures here in the Twin Cities for a long time with one exception about 15 years ago. Snow came this year that weekend of November 13.  We have not had a major or even a minor snow melt...

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