Prunning of spireas and other plants.

Greetings,
Now that you have been enjoying your summer, continue the view by trimming your plants to keep them pretty. The Spireas that are now done blooming can be trimmed to a nice globe shape as well as other shrubs that have bloomed. Dead heading your old flower heads on perennials encourages more blooms like on Roses and Echinacea and Coneflower, Salvia and other flowers that look a bit brown right now. We at the nursery are still stocked with a variety of perennial and shrubs to help make your landscaping nice. We at Lynde Greenhouse also enjoy helping you with the planning of your landscape needs. Remember we handle bulk mulches and rock and soils too.
If you have questions on any of the topics above please ask and I will try my best to help.
Donna

Insects in the Garden

Wow! What a weed...I mean week. I hope most of you got an opportunity to make some really great purchases during our 50% off everything sale. It was alot of fun and I know I was extremely happy with my purchases. I have to remember to thank the people that knew it was a great idea. Now comes the giant task of restocking and bringing in fresh product for summer. We still have some great sales every week so if you are not signed up for the e-mail subscription be sure and do it right away to know what's happening. Better yet, keep up with the Lynde blog.

Lots of things are happening in my gardens at home. There has been a small amount of damage on my roses from the little green caterpillar. He likes to make lacework of the leaves. I've also noticed some rose chafers in the flowers themselves. I usually just hand pick them and drop them in a bucket of soapy water. Using a systemic insecticide (one that becomes part of the plants sap system) is the easiest way to protect roses from insect damage. If the plant appears to be overrun with insects try using the insecticide EIGHT.

One caterpillar I am extremely fond of is the monarch. I have planted several different milkweed plants (egg laying and food source plant) to encourage them to my gardens. Yesterday, I counted 9 young larva one one plant! Today I went to get a photo of them and there wasn't one left. As I stood there, dumfounded and bummed, a big red cardinal flew down from the spruce tree and landed on the milkweed. I guess he was looking for dessert! Now that I Know who is stealing 'my' Monarch babies I will put up a protective net to keep them safe.

From The Greenhouse

Well summer is now upon us. Or is it? By now most of you should have most everything planted that you wanted. Now it's adding here and there where there are open spots or where something just didn't do well. Or maybe it's coming in for those great sales you just can't pass up. As for us we are planting and growing fall mums and yes poinsettias are in and are on their way to rooting for the holiday season. As far as new arrivals, we have summer 2.3qt annuals along with some 1.5pt summer annuals that will also work well into the fall season. We still have a fresh assortment of herbs for your cooking pleasure. With in a month I'll have some fall combo pots put together and the product as well if you are interested in creating your own fall pot. Don't forget the fall kale and cabbage for that super accent in your pots or ground beds. Got to get back to those poinsettias.