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Now is the time for planting your cover crops. Below you'll find some helpful cover crop tips for Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Today in Nashville, the forecast calls for bitterly cold weather to come in this week. If your like us, you've probably harvested your crops that need harvesting and maybe you've gone a step [...]
Indian Summer Rudbekia Perennials are the backbone to any garden. These flowers are some of the toughest and best performing plants that you will have in your landscape. With so many types of perennials to chose from, we came up with the following list of the best perennials that we have found [...]
Planting Hellebores (Lenten Rose) in Nashville, Tn Hellebores, also called Lenten or Christmas rose, is one of the best spring flowering perennials for the mid south. Not actually in the rose family at all, but in the Ranunculus order, this perennial is a gift from nature that shows its glory in the dead of [...]
Crocus are perennial spring flowering bulbs that scream "Spring is almost here!" here in Middle Tennessee. They grow beautifully in zones 4 to 10 and produce wineglass-shaped flowers in so many color combinations of purple, white, yellow and even striped, it's hard to decide which color and variety to grow. There are about 30 different [...]
Having a good landscape design for your home will help you to plan the best use of plant material for your site. It will also save you money in the long run since you won't have to replace plants that are in the wrong place. You may choose to design your own or hire a [...]
Q. How long should you be mowing your lawn in fall in the Nashville and surrounding areas? A. Basically, until it stops growing! We get this question a lot actually. It perfectly fine to keep cutting until temperatures get low enough that the grass stops growing. That's your cue that you can do one [...]
Planting tulips in Tennessee can be a bit tricky. You have to wait until it's not too warm outside because you certainly don't want them to start coming up too soon! Wait until the days are consistently cool before you plant. Usually the middle of November. Below are more tips for planting tulips: Tulip bulbs [...]
On a recent trip to West Virginia, we saw first hand the damage of the Emerald Ash Borer on the Ash tree seen below. Sooner than later it will be here in Middle Tennessee. How can you know if your tree is infected? Visit www.emeraldashborer.info for more information. Emerald Ash Borer Damage [...]
Cheekwood Botanical Gardens Fall is the perfect time to give your plants a jump start for next spring. Why? Trees, turf, and shrub root systems power up plants for renewed growth every spring. You can see from my latest visit at Cheekwood that flowers and turf grow better with fertilizer. Below are [...]
In the afternoon of Aug. 13, an oil tanker truck going too fast tipped over and exploded while rounding a curve on Centennial Boulevard. The result was that more than 8,000 gallons of fuel that it was carrying burst into a huge two-block-wide cloud of black smoke and fire that scorched and melted everything around [...]