Dayton "Dirt" - March 26, 2010

On Saturday, March 27th at noon, I will be giving another educational seminar on Mountain Laurels.

These delightful plants will extend the blooming season of your landscape as they typically bloom May 15th through June 15th with a kaleidoscope of color from their many and varied flower colors of white, shades of pink, and shades of red in various combinations.

Mountain Laurels, until established, can be frustrating to grow so I’ll share all my knowledge with you so you too can be successful.

Mountain Laurels are the perfect companion plant for Rhododendrons and Azaleas and can fill in the missing details to your shade landscape or foundation planting.
On another note, we’ve already received a lot of our stock and have been pulling a lot out of our winter storage houses.

However, we won’t be set up fully on the outside until about mid-April as the weather can still turn nasty.

More specifically, by nasty I don’t mean snow, but bitter cold.

You see, there is new root growth now on the plants in pots and a temperature below 20 degrees F with moderate wind would kill much of that new root growth and set the plant back.

I have a good memory and the cold blast that I fear in April happened April 5-8 in 1982 and again on April 8-10 just recently in 2007.

I’m sure everyone remembers the 2007 blast as that happened Easter weekend and the temperature on that Saturday was a high of about 35 degrees with 35 mile per hour winds, after a low that morning of only 19 degrees!

Let’s hope we don’t have to experience that for a while!

Tom