This is one of Minnesota’s most common diseases on ornamental trees, specifically spruce trees. This fungus is called Rhizosphaera (needle cast in laymen’s terms). This fungus is pretty much everywhere on the lawn. The fungus splashes up to the lower portions of...
As the warm weather here stretches out in to October many people are more willing to play “clean up” in their landscape (compared to when the weather is cold or rainy and we just hide from it) and yet some of this beautiful weather can make it hard to know what to do...
August is a time for summer parties and enjoying the last days summer (Sure summer goes into September but school is in session so it doesn’t count anymore to most of us) But it is NOT the time for trimming your trees and shrubs! There are plenty of other things to...
All the time I have clients tell me they want low maintenance. But some even go so far to say they don’t want any maintenance, to which I reply: even if you had all silk flowers you would still have to dust them to keep them looking good . There is no such thing as...