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The Home Gardening Corner
Winter planting of trees and shrubs has long been considered to be the best here in the south. Plants are dormant and moving them is less stressful and gives them time to settle in their new site and put out a few roots before the big spring push. Of course our container grown plant material dose not go through a transplant shock. No roots are disturbed and the spring green-up is normal. Growth is vigorous and rapid. Spring planting is good also because the true nature of the plants can be seen, leaf color and texture as well as flower color for many of the blooming shrubs and trees. Wind in the Willows Nursery is very careful to make sure that all plants are correctly labeled to insure that when you buy a pink flowered plant it is a pink flower. Summer planting is the hardest on the plants if they are not container grown. The heat and dry weather can be hard on container plants also if they are not kept watered properly. The lack of water is probably the single most common cause of plant death in summer plantings. If you cant keep it watered at this time of the year don’t plant. Wait until fall or winter when it is not as critical. Depth of new plantings is very critical. It is better to have the plant ball a little high rather than too deep. The plant should enjoy the same ground level after planting that it grew in or ever so slightly higher because in a lot of cases there will be some settling of the planting medium unless thorough “watering in” is practiced at planting time. |
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