Tag: boxwood

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Taking advantage of low-maintenance shrubs in the landscape
Discover how to use low-maintenance plants and shrubs to add texture and color to landscape design and serve functional purposes in your clients' landscapes.
April 23, 2019
Double Play Doozie offers deep red foliage in the spring and bright purple-red flowers by late spring that continue through the summer. Photo: Courtesy of Proven Winners – www.provenwinners.com
Business
Industry roundup: John Deere introduces new angle and pickup brooms
John Deere recently updated its line of Worksite Pro attachments with three new angle and five new pickup brooms. The company says the BA72C, BA84C and BA96C angle brooms and the BP72C, BP84C, BR60C, BR72C and BR84C pickup brooms were designed for effortless cleanup in turf, snow and construction applications. John Deere says that like […]
January 7, 2019
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Have a green Christmas with natural decorations, but watch out for boxwood blight
If your company offers natural decorations or your clients purchase them, Clemson University warns that some wreaths could be carriers for boxwood blight.
December 18, 2017
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How to: Designing and maintaining topiaries
Learning how to create and maintain topiaries can help you know exactly what you’re getting into before talking with an interested client. Details here!
August 2, 2017
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In designing holiday planters, consider a break from tradition
With Christmas nearing, take a look at these five festive ways for designing holiday container gardens to brighten any porch or hardscaped backyard.
December 1, 2016
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Mariani wins prestigious design award for second year in a row
For the second year in a row, Chicago's Mariani Landscape has been recognized with a prestigious award. Click to read more details on this landscaping feat.
November 10, 2016
Called the ‘Grand Elegance’ project, the winning work was completed at an historic 1920s residence in Chicago’s North Shore suburb. Photo: Mariani Landscape
Design-Build
Avoid foliage monotony with these design tips
While swaths of a single plant variety can be peaceful in the landscape, there’s far more interest in a garden bed with a bit of diversity.
October 19, 2016
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South Carolina strengthens efforts to stop boxwood blight
Boxwood blight has been detected in a South Carolina plant nursery, marking the second appearance of the fungal disease in the state. Click to read more.
August 25, 2016
Plants at the nursery in South Carolina show signs of being infected with boxwood blight Photo: Clemson University
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Pennsylvania issues quarantine order to stop boxwood blight
Pennsylvania's issued a quarantine order in the hopes it can prevent the spread of boxwood blight. The disease is known for causing leaf loss and at times death
June 30, 2016
Boxwood blight arrived in the U.S. in 2011 and has been spreading since then. Photo: Richard Buckley, Rutgets PDL
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Want some privacy? Call a landscape contractor
After your company has created a backyard oasis for a client, don’t be surprised if the customer notices something missing – not from your landscape design, which no doubt is flawless, but rather all along the periphery of it.
September 2, 2015
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Landscapers, nurseries urged to be on lookout for boxwood blight
The latest boxwood blight alarms are going off in Alabama & landscapers in every region of the country where the popular shrub thrives should take notice.
June 1, 2015
Landscapers should be on the lookout for early signs of blight. At least some telltale signs of the disease most likely were present when these boxwoods were planted. Photo: U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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