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LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT
FALL 2010
Charlotte Kidd, M. Ed.In The Garden Design, Care & [email protected] Mid-Atlantic Regional Editorwww.garden.org
Aldo Leopold
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
NorthviewJenny Rose Carey’s Garden Field Trip
Jenny has raised beds because Keeps plant crown above grade and the freeze/thaw that kills plants. Drainage.
Sunset garden by Elizabeth Green consists of River gravel, mulch, native soil with a bit of extra soil to make mounds
Hottest Tip: “Be More Brutal Than You Can Imagine. When planting, remove all peat and nursery soil then rough up the roots.”
Moss Garden Care?Spray sulphur couple times year.
Why does she keep old tree stumps and edge with wood pieces?
85 bird species involved in process of decaying tree; enjoys natural process of fungi
Liz Ball’s Wildlife/Native Plant Garden, Springfield
What is reconciliation ecology?
Redesigning human habitats to accomodate other species
Bloomfield Farm 11/8Louise Clarke, Bloomfield Farm Section Leader
*Bloomfield Farm Monthly Maintenance Plan
* Pruning Formative Pruning - Amelanchier Thinning – When?http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/a/amecan/amecan1.html
Branch Bark Collar
Water SproutsSuckers
““A tree’s leaves may be ever so good, A tree’s leaves may be ever so good,
so may its bark, so may its wood; so may its bark, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root,But unless you put the right thing to its root,
It never will show much flower or fruitIt never will show much flower or fruit.” .”
Robert FrostRobert Frost
Morris Arboretum Veteran Tree Care
Jason Lubar, Director of Urban Forestry
•Regenerative Pruning “We’re a Tree Museum.”
•Turn back the clock by pruning, propping, cultural practices
Cambium Column- Phoenix Tree (Cherry)
Three Stages of Tree’s Life (Energy Budget) Young (1-15 yrs - growth); Sexually Mature (20 yrs – growth, reproduction (produces fruit), defense; Mature (300-400 yrs)Overmature – tree gets smaller, consolidates resources and energy
Scarlet x Red Oak - Heading Cuts to Trigger Interior Canopy Growth
European Beech • Layering itself to produce progeny• Ring of new trees around it• Same genetic material in progeny as in veteran tree
11/10
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2010/11/polygonatum_biflorum.php
http://www.plantdelights.com/
Monthly Maintenance Plan – MSWord & Excel
Job Description – 5 or more details
Employee-Wanted Ad for the above
Here is the U Mass Soil Test website. It requires downloading a pdf document and following the directions. They are quick and reliable. I use ziplock bags, labelled, and padded shipping envelopes. Soil samples must be dry when sent.http://www.umass.edu/plsoils/soiltest/services1.htm
Turning & Amending Soil
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BEFORE PLANTING, best to blend amendments deeply into new beds.
Alfalfa Meal
Mushroom Soil Slow-Release Mineral Fertilizer
Bring on the Leaves
Leaves and Shredded/Composted Leaves
Emptying compost bin
Compost to trash canto garden
Fall Care
Leaves - Nature’s Food Factories
Recycle them!!!
Vacuum and shred.
Return shredded leaves to bed as winter mulch.
Remove leaves from plant crowns and bases.
Rake and pile them descreetly to use in spring - over a potential weed patch
Or pile them on a new bed you’ll be turning in spring.
Fall Care
Rose Care
What NOT to do -
Shade
Crowding, fencing,hedges
Poor air circulation
Good Rose Culture
• Six hours or more sun• pH 6.5• Good air circulation• Double dig soil to aerate and improve
drainage. Add compost/aged manure • Plant 3-4, 4-5 ft apart• Water at base, 1 inch week • Monitor• Mulch
Alfalfa Fertilizer
• 4 cups alfalfa to 5 gals H2O
• Larger amount:10-12 cups alfalfa meal to 32-gal H2O
• Apply lid.• Steep 4, 5 days.• Mix. Apply to soil around roses.
Good Rose CultureOld Rose cultivars
Apothecaries French rose(Rosa gallica)
Good Rose Culture
• Select disease-resistant varieties and cultivars: Explorer ‘Champlain’, Meidiland, Romantica‘KnockOut’, ‘Lady Elsie May,’‘Mary Rose’, ‘Fourth of July’…
• Incorporate perennials that attract beneficial insects
• Visit the Morris rose garden in spring, summer, fall to see which roses have healthy foliage, no or little black spot.
Good Rose CulturePerennial Partners
Umbrel flowers pollen/ nectar for beneficials - bronze fennel, yarrow, dill “essentially eliminated aphids. thrips, spider mites”
Aesthetically -Sage, Heliotrop, Salvia, Acanthus, Russian sage, Nepeta Morris rosarian, Mike Tuszynski
Thanks to
Technical assistance:Jonah Adels
Kay Johns at [email protected]
Drawings:Ky Bruce Mettler at [email protected]
ResourcesAnn Lovejoy; Further Along the Garden Path, Organic Garden Design School
Botany for Gardeners
Natural Garden Care - http://www.naturallandscapes.org/content/naturalgarden/naturalgarden.htm
Bug of the Week - http://raupplab.umd.edu/bugweek/