- Jan 23 2019
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- Landscaping, Winter
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The Importance of Dormant Pruning
The air was thin and brittle, like paper. It sliced through flesh, wrinkled with every breath, and crumpled under foot. It was as if nature had been wrapped in a thin layer of cellophane, restrained and crinkling with every movement. It was a bitter and…
- Jan 11 2017
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- Landscaping
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The Do’s & Don’ts of Dormant Pruning
The leafless trees bore the sun’s rays in flickering bursts, like an old movie projector. Each fleeting image accumulating, until the sun appeared whole before sinking behind the horizon. The weather has been somewhat atypical and wholly unpredictable. …
- Feb 24 2016
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- Landscaping, Uncategorized
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Dormant Pruning Tips & Exceptions
As Friday’s winds rattled the landscape and ravished our senses, it dawned on me that nature is truly a multi-tasker. Like a wild-fire that clears away dead, diseased and suffocating underbrush, the wind assisted in pruning out the weak, dead and…
- Dec 10 2014
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- Landscaping, Uncategorized
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December’s Early Gifts
December has bestowed upon us an early Christmas gift – moderate temps, unfettered ground and frost-free soil. Why, pray tell, is this a gift? Normally at this time of year, the ground is frozen, blanketed in snow, and cold. Essentially, December…