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These pages will be used to help you with yard and garden concerns through the season. Many of our articles will be extracted from the Buffalo News, as written by Sally Cunningham, on current topics. Have you noticed how early everything is blooming? My best guess is that we're about three weeks ahead of the norm. Daylilies usually peak around late July, and we usually don't see Crocosmia, Echinacea, and Monarda until August. Enjoy them while you can, and think about all the Garden Walk people who were counting on those flowers for their tourists in the coming weeks! What to do: You can't stop them from blooming, but you can push many perennials to re-bloom by cutting them back. The best book for details on the topic--exactly how much to cut back every single perennial at the exact time--is The well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy di Sabato-Aust. But even without the book, you shouldn't hesitate to take our a hedge sheers and simply whack most perennials at least in half when they have finished blooming. Great candidates include most Campanulas, Penstemon,Tradescantia, daisies, and Scabiosa. Plants with large shoots such as delphiniums can also produce another bloom late in the season, but it takes them longer. (Pictured: Aronia, black chokeberry; seeds persist into winter and provide Vitamin C for the birds.) |
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Lockwood's carries a wide line of native trees, shrubs, and perennials. While some people have the idea that native plants might be too casual, or wild spreaders, that's not the case. We have both species (the original forms) and cultivars of the species that we have chosen for performance, beauty, and good behavior too! Ask our staff of CNLPs (Certified Nursery & Landscape Professionals) about all our plants. Our native plants include Vernonia, New York Ironweed (both the species and the cultivar called Iron Butterfly), buttonbush, serviceberries, Lindera benzoin, Oxydendron, |
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The most-asked question about Clematis is when to cut them back. It's a long story, and the time for it is NOT now. But the next most-asked question is What happened to it? One minute you have it flowering and then--browning, crumpled, and looking dead! The syndrome (because it's not clearly a disease) is known as Clematis wilt, and it just happens to some of them. I have one that blooms white in June, and always disapp;ears around the middle of July. Some experts theorize that the roots aren't cool enough, as they would like to be planted with lots of compost, shaded, and mulched. I simply don't know more answers, and many scientists don't know either. So... wait until next year as it will probably come back. And another Clematis may not do the same thing at all. |
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They are here. Lockwood's offers a fact with Do's and Don'ts, but the simplest method for managing them is to simply knock them off the plant and step on them or drown them in a pail of soapy water. They attack many kinds of flowers and shrubs, but most notably devour roses, grapes, Rose of Sharon, sand cherry, porcelain vine (Ampelopsis)and Tamarix. So far--a personal observation--they don't seem to be so severe this year, but let's wait awhile to decide... |
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