This document provides information on landscape management for fall 2010. It includes tips on planting, pruning, composting, and caring for roses. Specific advice discussed includes raising garden beds, using river gravel and native soil for plantings, and being brutal when planting by removing all nursery soil. Information is also provided on reconciliation ecology, veteran tree care, and using alfalfa meal as a fertilizer. Resources for further information on organic gardening and identifying garden pests are listed at the end.

1. LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT
FALL 2010
Charlotte Kidd, M. Ed.
In The Garden Design,
Care & Workshops
charlottekidd@comcast.net
267-255-5284
NGA Mid-Atlantic Regional Editor
www.garden.org

3. Aldo Leopold
“A thing is right when it tends to
preserve the integrity, stability,
and beauty of the biotic
community.
It is wrong when it tends
otherwise.”

4. Northview
Jenny Rose Carey’s Garden Field Trip
Jenny has raised beds because Keeps plant crown above grade and the
freeze/thaw that kills plants. Drainage.
Sunset garden by Elizabeth Green consists of
River gravel, mulch, native soil with
a bit of extra soil to make mounds

5. Hottest Tip: “Be More Brutal
Than You Can Imagine. When
planting, remove all peat and
nursery soil then rough up the
roots.”
Moss Garden Care?
Spray sulphur couple times year.
Why does she keep old tree stumps
and edge with wood pieces?
85 bird species involved in
process of decaying tree; enjoys
natural process of fungi

6. Liz Ball’s Wildlife/Native Plant
Garden, Springfield
What is reconciliation ecology?
Redesigning
human
habitats to
accomodate
other species

7. Bloomfield Farm 11/8
Louise Clarke, Bloomfield Farm Section Leader
*Bloomfield Farm Monthly Maintenance Plan
* Pruning Formative Pruning - Amelanchier
Thinning – When?
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/a/amecan/amecan1.html

8. Branch Bark Collar
Water Sprouts
Suckers

9. ““A tree’s leaves may be ever so good,A tree’s leaves may be ever so good,
so may its bark, so may its wood;so may its bark, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root,But unless you put the right thing to its root,
It never will show much flower or fruitIt never will show much flower or fruit.”.”
Robert FrostRobert Frost

10. Morris Arboretum
Veteran Tree Care
Jason Lubar, Director of Urban Forestry
•Regenerative Pruning “We’re a Tree Museum.”
•Turn back the clock by pruning, propping, cultural practices

11. Cambium Column- Phoenix Tree (Cherry)
Three Stages of Tree’s Life (Energy Budget)
Young (1-15 yrs - growth); Sexually Mature (20 yrs – growth, reproduction
(produces fruit), defense; Mature (300-400 yrs)
Overmature – tree gets smaller, consolidates resources and energy
Scarlet x Red Oak - Heading Cuts to Trigger Interior Canopy Growth

12. European Beech
• Layering itself to produce progeny
• Ring of new trees around it
• Same genetic material in progeny as in veteran tree

13. 11/10
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2010/11/polygonatum_biflorum.php
http://www.plantdelights.com/
Monthly Maintenance Plan – MSWord & Excel
Job Description – 5 or more details
Employee-Wanted Ad for the above
Here is the U Mass Soil Test website. It requires downloading a pdf
document and following the directions. They are quick and reliable. I
use ziplock bags, labelled, and padded shipping envelopes. Soil samples
must be dry when sent.
http://www.umass.edu/plsoils/soiltest/services1.htm

14. Turning & Amending Soil
BEFORE PLANTING,
best to blend amendments deeply into new beds.

15. Alfalfa Meal

16. Mushroom Soil
Slow-Release Mineral Fertilizer

17. Bring on the Leaves

18. Leaves and Shredded/Composted Leaves

19. Emptying compost bin
Compost to trash can
to garden

20. Fall Care
Leaves - Nature’s Food
Factories
Recycle them!!!
Vacuum and shred.
Return shredded leaves
to bed as winter mulch.

21. Remove leaves from plant
crowns and bases.
Rake and pile them
descreetly to use in spring -
over a potential weed patch
Or pile them on a new bed
you’ll be turning in spring.
Fall Care

22. Rose Care
What NOT to do -
Shade
Crowding, fencing,
hedges
Poor air
circulation

23. Good Rose Culture
• Six hours or more sun
• pH 6.5
• Good air circulation
• Double dig soil to aerate and improve
drainage. Add compost/aged manure
• Plant 3-4, 4-5 ft apart
• Water at base, 1 inch week
• Monitor
• Mulch

24. Alfalfa Fertilizer
• 4 cups alfalfa to 5 gals H2O
• Larger amount:
10-12 cups alfalfa meal to 32-gal H2O
• Apply lid.
• Steep 4, 5 days.
• Mix. Apply to soil around roses.

25. Good Rose Culture
Old Rose
cultivars
Apothecaries
French rose
(Rosa gallica)

26. Good Rose Culture
• Select disease-resistant varieties and cultivars:
Explorer ‘Champlain’, Meidiland, Romantica
‘KnockOut’, ‘Lady Elsie May,’
‘Mary Rose’, ‘Fourth of July’…
• Incorporate perennials that attract beneficial
insects
• Visit the Morris rose garden in spring,
summer, fall to see which roses have healthy
foliage, no or little black spot.

27. Good Rose Culture
Perennial Partners
Umbrel flowers pollen/
nectar for beneficials -
bronze fennel, yarrow,
dill “essentially eliminated
aphids. thrips, spider mites”
Aesthetically -
Sage, Heliotrop, Salvia,
Acanthus, Russian sage,
Nepeta
Morris rosarian, Mike
Tuszynski

28. Thanks to
Technical assistance:
Jonah Adels
Kay Johns at ppperennials@wildblue.net
Drawings:
Ky Bruce Mettler at kymonster@hotmail.com

29. Resources
Ann Lovejoy; Further Along the Garden Path, Organic
Garden Design School
Botany for Gardeners
Natural Garden Care -
http://www.naturallandscapes.org/content/naturalgarden/naturalgarden.htm
Bug of the Week - http://raupplab.umd.edu/bugweek/