Garden Inspire

Now is a great time to be thinking about your garden and landscape.  If you have received seed catalogs in the mail you may have seen many things you would like to grow this year.

Before ordering plan what you want to plant where.  Even if you make a few changes between now and planting you will be less likely to end up with some plants or seeds that you will just cram in somewhere or that will die before you get them planted.

Keep in mind the conditions of your yard.  Your yard is not the same in every section or every season.

What areas receive the most sun?  or the most shade? and what times of the day so they receive sun or shade?

What areas are the driest?  the wettest?

How will you get water to the various parts of your landscape? 

(Overhead sprinklers are not the best way to water trees, shrubs, and gardens)

Which areas receive the most wind? or the least?

Do the above situations change depending on the season? Before trees leaf out in the spring they will not cast as much shade so early plants such as spring bulbs will receive more sun than plants which emerge later.