Landscape & Gardening Tips – June
What our Pro’s are doing:
Hawks Landscape Designers and Installation Crews:
- Our Landscape Designers will be working on creative solutions for their client’s yards and businesses.
- Our Landscape installers will continue to work on plant installations, patios, retaining walls and decks.
Hawks Landscape Maintenance staff:
- Our lawn care crews will finish applying the second application on some properties and begin to apply the third application of our 5-Step Lawn Fertilization program to others. It includes a granular slow release fertilizer (with Iron) and a liquid broad leaf weed killer.
- Our bed care crews will begin to shear evergreen shrubs when the first flush of growth has finished.
- They will also be feeding roses monthly with a granular rose food (or weekly with water-based fertilizer), especially after the first flush of flowers. They will use slow-release fertilizers only one time during the season.
- Annuals will get fertilized on a regular basis to keep them strong and full of flowers.
- Our Arborists are spraying or injecting birch for leaf miners and borers. Now is also the time to watch for Oak Wilt and Dutch Elm’s Disease and start injections to combat these issues.
- They will also prune spring-flowering shrubs and trees after they finish blooming.
- To control Gypsy Moths, our Arborists will start barriers, banding, biological or chemical control early in the month. See the UW-Extension gypsy moth website for more information: http://hort.uwex.edu/articles/gypsy-moth, http://hort.uwex.edu/articles/webworms
- In some landscapes they may prune spruce and pine in their soft candle stage. To reduce cut marks they may pinch the shoot with their fingers while being careful not remove more than two thirds of the new growth.
You should:
- Make sure lawns receive 1″ of water per week.
- Plant the last of your gladiolus bulbs early this month.
Please note: The timing on many of these tips is approximate and can vary greatly depending on a variety of factors. If you have any questions, please contact a Hawks Landscape Designer or Maintenance representative at 414-258-5525.