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Sept 6 While fall has not “officially” arrived, some of the trees and
shrubs are just beginning to turn color especially with the drought we are
now experiencing that are placing plants under stress and making perennial
gardens look tired.
Its not a bad idea to give your plants a good deep
soaking especially if they are not quite well established yet.
Flower bulbs from Holland are just beginning to arrive
so that it is a good idea to shop now for the best selection but I would
delay the actual planting until October when soils have cooled.
Some of you have been “turned off” from planting tulips
as they have become deer food! The best way to combat the deer is to do one
of two things:
Forget about planting tulips all together in favor
of Narcissus or Daffodils or as deer never bother these flowers
If you decide to plant tulips, spray them with
liquid fence as they begin to come up and repeat the application at
least one more time.
Many but not all of our perennials, trees and shrubs
are 50% off and are marked clearly by sale signs. For those items that are
not 50% off, the reasons are varied but usually we have just brought the
plants into the sales yard from the production area or have bought in new
stock from Lake County, Ohio in order that we have a good selection for our
customers whether they are landscaping or simply are looking for that ‘Just
right” plant.
Don’t forget that the sales list is in our store or you
can find it listed here on our website.
Don’t forget that on Saturday, September 27th,
we’ll be hosting our first Fall Harvest Festival
that will feature craft vendors, hayrides, pumpkins, a food vendor, petting
zoo and music by Frankie Spetich known as the “Polka King” of Barberton!
Check out our website a little later for information on
the timing for all activities for our fall festival.
Hope to see you soon.
Tom
P.s. Remember that a fun way to celebrate the coming of
fall is to plant or to place chrysanthemums around your home and that
Barberton will be the “Mum capital” for the mum garden of over 20,000 plants
donated by Yoder Brothers in Barberton plus all the other activities around
Lake Anna the weekend of September 20th.
July, 2008 In January, I wrote that while the horticultural industry is
“green”, many of the practices of production in themselves are not “green”.
“Things” though are “a-changing” for the better. At
the nursery as I have mentioned before, we’re big into saving and recycling
water in that our whole system is like one big rain garden in which “used”
irrigation water is returned to its holding pond and lake from which it came
and rain water that runs of the sales area, paved parking lot and building
roofs is collected and stored.
“Reused” irrigation water though can be loaded with
fertilizer salts that can burn plant’s roots and foliage making them
unsaleable.
One of the reasons we have not had problems with high
salts is that we have instituted a cyclic program of irrigation in which
sprinklers operate for a 45 minute period, then are off for at least an hour
and then come again for 45 minutes.
This cycling of irrigation times leaches less
fertilizer out of the plant container into the runoff recycled water.
I first heard about this cycling method from a speech
given by Dr. Hannah Mathers that she gave at the Portland, Oregon Convention
Center in September of 2001.
Another way to cut down on salty water is plants.
Marginal bog plants have naturally colonized our return water channels and
settling ponds and remove much of the excess nutrients from the water.
Plants “that do the job” range from Acorus, Red Osier
Dogwood, Arrowwod Viburnum and a whole host of other bog plants that I do
not know. As a supplement, we throw a few a few water hyacinths into our
settling ponds in which then explode and grow while they “suck up” even more
nutrients from the water.
Finally, we are gradually cutting down on our water
usage through the installation of more and more drip irrigation that uses
much less water than overhead sprinklers.
With less use of water, our own lake water quality is
elevated in that rain water is able to dilute more of the impure water that
re-enters it from irrigation.
With less water usage comes less energy inputs as we
must pump our water with electricity.
Being “green” not only makes sense from an
environmentally responsible aspect but saves energy and money too! I just
love it! Remember to do your part.
Tom Dayton
Plant Encyclopedia
Stop flipping through garden and plant
books! Use our new plant encyclopedia
to easily find plant names, descriptions, flower color, bloom time, pruning
information, fertilizing information, insect & disease control, and much
more! All plants listed are only those you can find at our nursery,
assuring you healthy, zone 5 hardy plants
Virus-Indexing
Virus-indexing is one of the
newest developments here at Dayton’s. What is virus indexing?
Simply, it is the process by which viruses that cause plants to lose
their strength and vigor, are identified and removed. Virus-indexed plants
are healthier and more vigorous which means better growth and more blooms
for you! While not all of Dayton’s perennials and annuals are virus indexed,
most are, so that we can achieve our goal by the spring of 2008 to have all
our plants virus-indexed!
What's New at Dayton's??
Happy Spring 2007: making our
nursery more "green", growing programs and an update on the Wolf Creek
Botanical Garden
3459 Cleveland-Massillon Rd. Norton, Ohio 44203 Just 1/4 mile North of I-76 in the historic Loyal Oak area of
Norton, Ohio 330-825-3320 or 1-866-500-6605
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