Together in business 42 years. Partners for life.

Bonnie and Bill F. Turull

June 1, 2010

Remove spent flowers from your rhododendrons, if you can reach them. Make sure if you cut your peonies for the house, cut them before they open and they will open by the next day.

Time to begin spraying summer phlox, monardas and other plants that are prone to powdery mildew every two weeks. Keep checking your oriental lilies for the red lily beetle. This is a new bug that has arrived with a vengeance.

Bill

Together in business 42 years. Partners for life.

Bonnie and Bill F. Turull

April 19, 2010

Time to apply slug baits around known hiding places. (Nip them in the bud!) Prune back Forsythias if they are done blooming, for fuller plants next year and remove any old canes at ground level.

If you need to know how wide to make a planting bed, it should be as wide as your spouse can reach in, to maintain it.

Cut back flower heads only on spent tulips and daffodils.

Bill

Together in business 42 years. Partners for life.

Bonnie and Bill F. Turull

April 12, 2010

It's time to fertilize perennials, shrubs and trees with a general purpose fertilizer such as 5-10-10, 5-10-5 or 10-10-10. And if you have broadleaf shrubs (Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Andromedas), it pays to feed them Holly Tone. There's no need to buys ten kinds of fertilizer.

Pay particular attention to any frost advisories. Plants are two weeks ahead of schedule, so they are susceptible to freeze - so pay attention!

Bill