LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT

FALL 2010

Charlotte Kidd, M. Ed.In The Garden Design, Care & Workshopscharlottekidd@comcast.net267-255-5284NGA 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 ppperennials@wildblue.net

Drawings:Ky Bruce Mettler at kymonster@hotmail.com

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/