Winter Gardening in Eastern Pennsylvania

Article by: Bill Hirst

I look forward each day during the winter. , Understanding Weeds - How to Kill them? To some, lamenting the past days of fall , Choosing The Best Plants For Your Garden with its bright foliage in the landscape, , How To Clean Your House Like a Professional and feeling down that the dull days of winter , Security gives you that peace of mind are here. For me I have grown to appreciate each day and look forward to interests in landscapes , Part II: What are the most popular floorplan features? that are there knowing that many dazzling displays can be found by careful observation. The days are short and the nights are long here in Bucks County Pa.. Yet growing plants , Get Growth From Your s and enjoying plants , The Dawn Redwood Tree - Beyond Fast Grow are year round activities that bring many quality hours of enjoyment. Watering plants , The Viburnum Blackhaw can be be on your list of things to do. Make it a point to get out and check on your plants. , An Introduction to Bulb Flowers The ground may not be frozen and plants , Adding a Bird Feeder to your Garden still use water , How To Use Vines In Landscaping Your Home . If the ground is not frozen you can still water , One Of my Favorite Trees - White Pines if the ground will accept the water. , A Unique History of the Light Bulb Most plants , Welcome To Michigan are dormant so the amount of watering is not as high as in the hotter seasons. , Turn Your Backyard Into A Personal Retreat Evergreens lose water , How To Clean Your House Like a Professional through their needles in the winter. , Crocuses So if one keeps watering as long as possible into the winter, , How to Build Your Dream Home seed , Crocuses lings and plants , COMPUTER COURTESY will suffer less stress. Winter , A Compost Primer drying of evergreens is a major stress factor in overwintering. Snow , Get Growth From Your Plants and ice on your plants , How to Grow Sprouts can be problematic. Tall thin plants , "DECORATING YOUR ENTRANCE FOYER" are not as sturdy a plant. , Part 3 - Different Types Of Home Foundations And When To Use They tend to bend under snow , The Many Types of Yellow Water Lilies loads and may require staking later to train them strait. If your small plants , Security gives you that peace of mind have a light , A Compost Primer amount of snow , The Many Types of Yellow Water Lilies covering them you may ease the snow , One Of my Favorite Trees - White Pines burden by lightly sweeping the snow , Decorating Your Home: 5 Style Tips that Cost Less than $50 with a broom. Don't shake them, they are like babies ... they get shaken baby syndrome. If snow , How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed or ice is frozen to the branches, allow it to melt rather than attempting to correct. If any branches are broken, you probably don't need to do anything unless there is a split in the trunk. If the breakage of the plant , Recovering From a Failed Home Project is sever, the seedling or liner should be discarded. The labor , Understanding Weeds - How to Kill them? to correct is not worth the value of the plant. , A Compost Primer Also a poor quality seedling will probably be a poor quality mature plant. , A Tea-Lover's Soul Weed There is a market for such plants , Crocuses however, we have had many customers who want, " Charley Brown Trees" or stunted trees , How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed for unusual customer needs. Warm spells in the winter , How to choose your garden furniture and make it last occur. Suddenly, there can be days of warmer temperatures. , Adding a Bird Feeder to your Garden This should not be a problem. When a warm spell occurs, get out and use some shoe leather and wear out those leather gloves. Its a great to have a break in mid winter , My Story on starting out in buying properties for growing plants and you can prepare for spring. , The American Arborvitae Grows well in Allentown Pa. If you have covering on or over the plants, , The Many Types of Yellow Water Lilies you may need to ventilate. We normally open the doors , Restore and Protect Your Deck to our greenhouses , Surfing in Cornwall - A historical Primer and this is usually all that is necessary. Cold , Decorating Your Home: 5 Style Tips that Cost Less than $50 frame temps may rise so ventilation will be helpful. Close up as nightfall arrives as the temperature , Crocuses will fall , Choosing The Best Plants For Your Garden . Note that when sunlight intensity is high, plant , A Tea-Lover's Soul Weed tissues become active. Water , Security gives you that peace of mind loss at this time can't be replaced if the root , Hard Economic Times, Expensive Gas and Oil Prices -- No Prob are frozen. This is called plant , Get Growth From Your s desiccation. Also if there many freeze-thaw cycles, the crown of the plant , How to choose your garden furniture and make it last will be heaved up exposing the roots. , How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed Root , Summer Gardening Tips systems have a lower tolerance to temperature , Surfing in Cornwall - A historical Primer extremes and can killed by freezing low temperature , Native Trees and Plants For Berks County Pa s.A common way to prevent desiccation is to screen plant , Turn Your Backyard Into A Personal Retreat s in exposed areas with Burlap . Varmint control is important in the winter. , A Unique History of the Light Bulb Mice and rabbits feed constantly . Their teeth grow , Hard Economic Times, Expensive Gas and Oil Prices -- No Prob constantly and they love to chew on tender plant , The Benefits of Using Landscape Software s. We spread rat and mice bait about every two to threes weeks as long as we see it being consumed. Try and place , A Compost Primer the baits in a place , The Viburnum Blackhaw where its easy to monitor, dry, and accessible only to the varmints. When the snow , Understanding Weeds - How to Kill them? gets deep mice will feed up higher on the plants. , An Introduction to Bulb Flowers They don't like to dig in the snow , How To Prevent Clogged Gutters for food , The Many Types of Yellow Water Lilies . They take the easy to reach food , A Compost Primer first. Thus tracks in the snow , How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed are an important sign to watch for. Mouse damage is usually not correctable. You may not see root , Magic Details Distinguish a Designer's Wedding feeding damage to stock till spring, , Understanding Weeds - How to Kill them? so over baiting is the best solution. Care should be taken that the baits are only available to the target varmint. Viburnums are the most attractive, versatile, adaptable shrub , Surfing in Cornwall - A historical Primer s for any landscape. , An Introduction to Bulb Flowers They can be used as hedges , A Unique History of the Light Bulb or screens and in mixed perennial/shrub borders. They can also stand alone as specimen plants. , A Tea-Lover's Soul Weed They usually take the form of shrubs, , Recovering From a Failed Home Project but some species can become small ornamental trees. , A Tea-Lover's Soul Weed They range in size from the Dwarf American Cranberry bush at 2 feet tall by 2 feet wide, to the Siebold at over 15 feet tall. We feel that Viburnums are plants , An Introduction to Bulb Flowers that have great winter , My Story on starting out in buying properties for growing plants interest. All Viburnums have white , How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed to pink flowers , The Dawn Redwood Tree - Beyond Fast Grow in the spring. , History of Bonsai The foliage is large, attractive and often textured leaves. Some viburnums have fragrant flowers , One Of my Favorite Trees - White Pines that are produced in snowball shaped clusters in April. Their flower , Separating The Good Weeds From The Bad clusters can consist of pink bud , Real Energy Savers Revisited s, which develop into white flowers. , One Of my Favorite Trees - White Pines Some fruits , How To Prevent Clogged Gutters are red and turn black with age usually bitter tasting. Leaves can be glossy, dark green , Welcome To Michigan and turn a burgundy color , A Compost Primer in the fall. , Safe Operation Of Garden Tractors Midsummer berries are an important food , Part II: What are the most popular floorplan features? source for birds. , COMPUTER COURTESY Viburnums have colorful red to purple leaves. Some viburnums can become medium-size trees, , A Compost Primer especially if they are pruned. Viburnums excel as specimen plants , Real Energy Savers Revisited or as anchors in mixed borders. You won't find a more versatile group of shrubs , The Benefits of Using Landscape Software for hedge , A Unique History of the Light Bulb s or for massing in groups, since viburnums hold their own in every season. , Separating The Good Weeds From The Bad Some viburnums, such as Prague viburnum 'Pragense', are evergreen. Others, such as leather leaf viburnum, are semi-evergreen in colder climates, , A Tea-Lover's Soul Weed losing their leaves when temperatures , How do you get parts for a Rainbow vacuum cleaner? dip below 10 degrees. The great feature , Inspecting Your New Home - 17 Areas You Must Inspect Before of Viburnums is that they are adaptable. While they would like full sun , Real Energy Savers Revisited and moderately watered, well-drained rich soils, , Get Growth From Your Plants they will grow , Welcome To Michigan very well in part shade, and in clay soils. , Decorating Your Home: 5 Style Tips that Cost Less than $50 Diseases , A Tea-Lover's Soul Weed and pests , Recovering From a Failed Home Project rarely attack them and they don't tend to have to be spayed. My kids have run over them with brush hogs and they survived. Their fibrous root , Magic Details Distinguish a Designer's Wedding system makes them transplant easily. In your search for a good, hardy shrub , A Compost Primer with winter , A Compost Primer interest consider the Viburnum family. Viburnums have long been popular garden , Magic Details Distinguish a Designer's Wedding plants, known for their white , The Benefits of Using Landscape Software , sometimes fragrant spring flowers, , Adding a Bird Feeder to your Garden and their fall , Native Trees and Plants For Berks County Pa color. But it's the Asian viburnums that have so far been most noteworthy. Perhaps the most liked viburnums are the Burkwood viburnum (Viburnum x burkwoodii), and the Korean spice viburnum (V. carlesii), both of which fill your landscape , Separating The Good Weeds From The Bad with pleasant odors in the spring. , Summer Gardening Tips Also popular is the doublefile viburnum (V. plicatum f. tomentosum), valued for its layered habit, fall , A Compost Primer foliage, and clusters of red fruits. , How do you get parts for a Rainbow vacuum cleaner? Viburnum acerifolium (Maple-leafed viburnum) Although I wouldn't plant , Adding a Bird Feeder to your Garden a landscape , Magic Details Distinguish a Designer's Wedding without viburnums, I have a special fondness for several of our native viburnums. They may not provide the great flower , Learn Some Feng Shui Guidelines For Your Children's Room fragrance of their Asian counterparts, but I love them not only for their rich fall , One Of my Favorite Trees - White Pines colors ,but for that fact they help attract and feed so many of our wild birds , Choosing The Best Plants For Your Garden that liven up our landscape , Separating The Good Weeds From The Bad during the long winter. , Safe Operation Of Garden Tractors In addition, several are great for urban conditions. They require only corrective pruning, , Security gives you that peace of mind and seldom commonly suffer from pests , How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed or diseases. , Adding a Bird Feeder to your Garden I would be hard pressed to say which viburnum I would choose if I could only have one. Viburnums are moist woodland plants. , Restore and Protect Your Deck In nature , Decorating Your Home: 5 Style Tips that Cost Less than $50 they are found along steam banks from Long Island to Florida. When you come to our 5275 West Swamp Rd. location , Separating The Good Weeds From The Bad ask us to show some in their native habitat , Security gives you that peace of mind that we found along our stream bank. These plants , Separating The Good Weeds From The Bad perform well under normal landscape , The Dawn Redwood Tree - Beyond Fast Grow conditions. I especially like the floral display in the spring , A Compost Primer and these viburnums that bear fruit , The Viburnum Blackhaw in the fall. , An Introduction to Bulb Flowers Winterthur has great red leaves and abundant fruit , Inspecting Your New Home - 17 Areas You Must Inspect Before in the fall. , History of Bonsai This cultivar needs a cross pollinator such as viburnum nudum. If you want things to do in the winter , Understanding Weeds - How to Kill them? this is when I cut back our viburnums. Pressing issues of the other seasons , Learn Some Feng Shui Guidelines For Your Children's Room always leaves my viburnums to stand alone untouched. It is mid winter , The Dawn Redwood Tree - Beyond Fast Grow and I always enjoy trimming back these plants , Drywall Installation then. I see all the nests that the birds , Adding a Feeder to your Garden have built and can work without disturbing their families. It seems to me that it is easier to cut back and trim now for I always feel bad in the summer , Part II: What are the most popular floorplan features? when I trim out green , Magic Details Distinguish a Designer's Wedding foliage. When trimming foliage I always guilty cutting greens , The Viburnum Blackhaw off of the plant , How to Grow Japanese Red Maples from Seed s. Wintertime frees me from those demons. You can see more out plants , Welcome To Michigan at the following web , Welcome To Michigan site HTTP://www.seedlingsrus.com

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