Need a screen between your backyard and the street? How about you and the nosy neighbor? Or, let’s say you need a good specimen feature in a corner planting…what would be a good choice? If any of these scenarios are a reality for you, consider the group of shrubs, the Viburnums. In general, they are…
Month: March 2020
March’s Garden Bits
If you’re at home and practicing social distancing, the one bit of good news in all of this is that we can be outside to tinker with plants. Spring is an exciting time, full of promise and possibilities. If you’re not a gardener, no worries, learning how to garden is a trial and error process….
Shrub Pruning – For Some Shrubs
It’s late March and if you’re like most Nebraskans who tend to their landscape, you’ve been looking out the window all winter and wondering if it is time to prune the shrubs. It might be…depending on the shrub. This handy chart will steer you in the right direction. Prune Now: privet, burning bush, spirea,…
Lawn Mower Preparation
It’s been sitting in the back of the garage all winter, collecting dust, possibly rusting, probably caked with debris – the lawn mower. In many cases, homeowners simply add gas, pull the rip cord and start mowing without much thought given to the equipment. This is unwise, as mowers are investments with prices ranging…