Park Seed: Blue Fescue

This Linden tree is giving me fits! Look how it is sending out such a long central leader without enough branches forming along the leader! I’m posting a message about it at gardenweb.com in the tree forum to see what kind of answers I can get.

It was an awesome day today! I worked out side so long, I have a serious sunburn on the back of my neck. Ouch. Here are some things we did today — Dana worked hard most of the day, too: Finished pruning the roses Pruned all the shrubs along the south fence, including yellow-twig dogwoods,…

My lawn has been very dry this month, and after greening up earlier in the month, it’s started getting brown spots again. I decided to turn on the lawn sprinklers last Friday evening. I gave it a full cycle for the lawn and the front flowerbed and then turned the system off. Before I use…

To the list of things blooming now, I would add: Blue Flax, which is a remnant of our wildflower mix. We left quite a few of those bunches up in our Aspen tree area. Our lilac bush, which is a little later than most around here. We have a Korean lilac (‘Miss Kim’ I think)….