Category: Plants

Spring Cleaning – for the outdoors

Your yard and landscape need spring cleaning just like your home.  It involves removing debris, fertilizing, mulching, along with cutting and trimming of plants.  Fall can also be a great time to clean up your yard and put it to rest for the winter, so it is hard to know what to do when. Here are some general rules to …

Moles, Voles and Trolls

When it comes to burrows and tunnels across your yard there can be some confusion as to what pest is trampling your yard.  Although we can rule out trolls, moles and voles can be easily identified by the types of paths they make.  Voles create surface tunnels that look a lot like miniature bob sled trails.  Moles on the other …

Mulch, mulch everywhere – but not a bit to spare

Everywhere you look mulched tree rings vary. We see huge mounds that look like volcanoes to smooth surfaces barely flush with the sod. What is best? … A tree benefits most from a mulch ring with at least a 3 foot radius giving it space to absorb water without competing with the sod. Ideally the mulch ring would expand along …


Andrea Shaw
Andrea Shaw
Andrea Shaw