NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES

Each week throughout the season one of our knowledgeable staff pens an article on topics that are helpful to our wholesale nursery and hardscape clients, featuring tips, plant info and current topics in the news. View archived versions of the past several seasons of newsletters below.

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2016 Articles

Promise of spring	Changes to the starting lineup	Early season weed prevention
Organic solutions to weed control	Carnations for Mom	New paver products for 2016
Planting crab apples	Don't get stuck!	Renewal pruning deciduous shrubs
Pink or red dogwood - what's the difference?	2016 - the year of flexibility	Help minimize the loss of honeybees
Ground covers in 2016	Give us a call!	What are the 3 F's of Design?
Some new trees for 2016	How to choose purple Weigela	Edge restraints preserve your paver job
Kousa dogwood - a hidden gem	Zanfel poison ivy treatment	Annabelle hydrangea
Summertime blues!	Fernleaf Full-Moon Maple	Planting wish list
"Little" plants	Standout trees	Rain gardens
A 'Regal Prince'	2016 Winners	Agastache
Ferns - an ancient plant	Dealing with shortages	Inkarho Rhododendron
Bug gardening	Bees need our help	When to use Holly-tone
Lighting discounts	Predicting peak fall color	Fall is the best time to fertilize
Planning for winter interest	Planting a Christensen's plant
Trees for 2017 - what to expect	The Cap'n Obvious Report 2016	Lego accents

2015 Articles

Ready... Set... Go!	New paver products for 2015	Why is material "short" in 2015?
'Arnold Promise' Witchhazel	Skinny trees that perform!	EasyPro 12 steps pond cleanup
New perennials for 2015	Selling in a good year	Tell us what you'd like to see
Tips & tricks to get you in & out	Affordable Yellowwood	New mulch location
Fix tired landscapes!	Prevent tree handling damage	Think outside the box
Ornamental grasses 101	New customers and safety	Fast customer load times
Sittin' in the shade!	Weed suppression	Boxwood losses
Rock solid technology	Hydrangea crossword!	Lighting season
Summer blooming perennials	Proper planting height	Wire basket pros and cons
Safety at the nursery	Asian Longhorned Beetle	The Landscape Buddy!
Woolly Aphid on Beech	Time to think about fall bulbs	Excellent ornamental plants
How to use boulders in the landscape	My variegated plant is reverting!	Concrete vs natural stone
Name games	Hydrangea & The Seven Dwarves	Heat stress and tarping
Trees are scarce - time to sub!	Carl Linnaeus, Plant Hero!	"Chip dirt"
Reinvest in your success	Montauk Daisy	Sending your customers in?
The 2016 plant material outlook	Do we owe you some cash?	The Cap'n Obvious Report 2015

2014 Articles

I hope you enjoyed your winter	Frost laws!	Out of the tundra...
What have I forgotten?	Trees - a necessary beauty	Inexpensive replacements
Winter lawn damage	Great performing broadleaf	Spring quotes
What's lurking in the nursery?	New paver products for 2014	Phlox: short, medium & tall
Cornus kousa vs C. florida	Sowing grass seed	Customer service
Carpe Diem!	Attracting hummingbirds	Have a safe summer
Summer seasonal color	Paeloecology	Why I chose the Green Industry
Visiting the nursery	Nyssa sylvatica 'Forum'	Loading and tarping your loads
Prevent winter damage	Fall evergreen season	Non-invasive buddleia
Oak wilt	Buxus varieties at CPC	CPC service
Summer snowflakes?	Hidden Lake Gardens	Why you should mulch
Out of stock? Substitutions	Keeping up with Hardscape	Noteworthy new bulbs for fall
Conifer cone ID quiz!	Death by water	Fall planting evergreens
Pruning tips	Fothergilla gardenii	"Growing Trucks"
My arbs are dying! (not)	Fall pruning of grasses & roses	Are crabapples out of style?
Winter burn on evergreens	Will you lead the change or...?	A thank you and a... donut?

2013 Articles

Mulch volcanoes! YIKES	Hiring? Here's what to do	Stock availability this year
New faces this spring	Rose Rosette Disease	"Commercial Grade" ?
Why do your PJMs suffer?	Rehabbing stagnant ponds	My plants need a quick kick!
Upright Japanese Maples	Plants for wet feet	Controlling pond algae
Paver maintenance	Plants for hot and dry	Is your truck too small?
Drainage problems?	"The Thorne Identity"	Helpful hints for a short spring
...forest for the trees?	Seeing RED	Container grown trees
LED lamps vs Halogen	Slag vs 2NS for pavers	The good old days
Reconnecting with customers	Cool Clematis	Cotinus Cage Match!
Diversify your plantings	Successional bloom	Versatile LED strip lights
Shorter days - Already?	Viburnumophile II - the puzzle	August pruning
Fall "digging hazard" trees	Polymeric sand tips	When is it enough water?
Water features made easy	The late, late, no show	Yellowwood
Plants for fall interest	Why fall color comes early here	A tale of two Oak-ish plants
Arpillera / Burlap	When to pull out the pesticides	What happened to this tree?
Top 10 end-of-season quotes	Excitement for 2014	Broaden your horizons

2012 Articles

More variety, more fun!	Helpful government	Name that plant!
Spring training	New year, new format	Winter...hum!
Rise 'n' shine	Extra danger of frost damage	New Echinacea for 2012
Taken by storm!	Tired of replacing rhodies?	A little light goes a long way
Spring bed maintenance	Witch hazel guide	Rose feeding tips
Wheelbarrows that "fit"	Best base for laying pavers	Later blooming magnolias
Short spring dig season	Is it a cherry or a dogwood?	Buildings keep plants warm
Time to divide those grasses!	Is the danger of frost past?	Green Giant arborvitae
Let us provide photos!	Rosetta Outcropping tips	"Special orders" now "stock"
Remember your tarp	Landscaping with edibles	Grow your own Super Food
Urban Apples	Edible groundcover?	To catalog or not to catalog?
Concolor Fir	Little Shop Of Horrors	Roses, beyond the thorns
I love to prune!	New Hardscape products	The ABCs of pruning clematis
Prunus and prejudice	Watering plants on the jobsite	Soil Moist
Government update	Transporting nursery stock	Custom limestone
Hello, my name is...	Niche planting	Mid-summer plant care
Right place, right plant	Wrong plant, wrong place!	French drains made easy
Hidden jewels at CPC	What's "up" in landscaping?	Green Screen view-blocker
Choosing climbing plants	Shade tolerant ornamentals	Lighting Season!
Leaf scorch and heat stress	Soil Moist can save you on jobs	Taxodium 'Peve Minaret'
MNLA Autumn Expo 9/20/12	With just a little lime, please	Nearly forgotten fall color
Fall into a new season of color!	Deer damage in the landscape	Updating - it's not the 70's
Deer repellents	Viburnums!	Plant winterization
Don't stop watering this fall!	New lighting hardware	Maintain your equipment
The Real Deal on fall clean-ups	Fall blooming Witchhazel	Basic Bulbology