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How To Install Soaker Hose For Inexpensive Drip Irrigation
In the previous article on watering to the core, we looked at the importance of maintaining moisture at the center of a plant’s root ball. The soaker hose provided one method to efficiently water plants by concentrating water over the root system. This is essentially what drip irrigation does. Drip irrigation is typically installed on the surface [...]
Continue reading...Plant Replacement – A Fact Of Any Landscape
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Why Replace A Plant? Well, beyond the obvious “because it’s dead”, there are other reasons for plant replacement. In this case the homeowner was disappointed in the way these existing Arborvitae were looking. She said “they look like an x-ray of the plant”. Over the years the maintenance contractor had been shearing them to keep the [...]
Continue reading...Arborvitae ‘Emerald Green’ – Proper Plant Use
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Emerald Green is a narrow, compact, pyramidal arborvitae with bright green foliage that grows in tight vertical sprays. It’s quite heat tolerant if given adequate moisture. Like many (but not all) arborvitae it can have multiple stems. These stems can splay out under the heavy load of snow and ice. Whenever I plant an arborvitae [...]
Continue reading...A Welcoming Walkway
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Good design should not only address the aesthetics, but have a functional purpose as well. This is where the phrase “form follows function” comes from. You might wish to make an area appear more spacious or to screen an unpleasant view. Perhaps you’d like an entertainment area with enough room for twenty people. And what [...]
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