Garden Tips

Featured Tree: Walking Stick

The walking stick tree  is an unusual plant that is bushy and has distinctive, twisting branches that give it a unique appearance, especially in the winter when the leaves drop off. The walking stick is striking at any time, but particularly so when it has a wall or solid fence as a backdrop.

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Featured Shrub: PeeGee Hydrangea

The Pee Gee Hydrangea is a showy, fast-growing shrub that can reach up to 25 feet tall.  With blooms reaching 6 to 18 inches that turn pinkish and darken to mauve, this hydrangea is easy to grow as a hedge or specimen plant.

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Featured Perennial: Sedum Autumn Joy

Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ is a standout perennial that brings multi-season interest to gardens with its changing flower colors and pollinator-friendly blooms. This hardy succulent-like plant emerges in spring with fleshy, green leaves, followed by clusters of pink flowers in late summer that deepen into a rich copper-bronze hue as fall progresses. Its adaptability, drought tolerance,…

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Featured Perennial: Echinacea

Echinacea also called coneflowers, are old fashioned prairie plants that resemble daisies with swept-back petals They are hardy, drought tolerant and long-blooming and are being cultivated in a ever widening range of colors.  They are hardy bloomers that thrive in full sun and well drained soil. They can be divided to expand the number of…

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Birch Tree

Birch trees are prized for their outstanding bark characteristics and their graceful delicate foliage. They are ideally suited to an area where the soil will remain cool and moist, but where the tree will receive full sunshine on its leaves for much of the day. Excellent locations for a birch tree is on the east…

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