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Plant Groupings – Why You Should Use Them
Plant Groupings Resemble Nature If you think about it, most natural settings you see typically show groupings of similar plants. These plants are indigenous to the area (i.e. living and occurring naturally). This natural phenomenon gives us an excellent example and point of reference for our designed landscapes. If you’ve ever seen a mass of Native [...]
Continue reading...How To Prune Low, Spreading Junipers
1. February 2010
This group of “low junipers” is often either not pruned or pruned incorrectly. Not pruning can result in run-away growth where these junipers outgrow their space. Incorrect pruning can alter the plant’s natural growth habit and cause it’s health to decline.
Continue reading...How To Prune Arborvitae ‘Green Giant’
25. January 2010
The Green Giant’s Growth Habit Perhaps I’ve said it before, but it’s extremely helpful when you know what a plant’s growth habit is before you prune. Growth habit is basically the shape a plant naturally wants to grow into and how the branching structure supports that shape. For example: Arborvitae ‘Green Giant’ is pyramidal in form [...]
Continue reading...Installing Root Barrier For Bamboo – RB Project #8.10
22. January 2010
Using Yellow Groove Bamboo over this 270′ border will give us an effective screen in a relatively short time, and at a reasonable cost. But Yellow Groove happens to be of the “running” type, meaning if not contained its roots (rhizomes actually) will run and invade in all directions. Planting any invasive plant is serious business. [...]
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21. February 2010
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