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It has been a costly year for many homeowners who have had to remove the trees and now face additional expense to replant.


If this describes you, let me encourage you to replant fi rst of all and to do it this fall, taking advantage of ideal planting conditions. I wouldn’t be too excited about planting the largest trees you can fi nd. Anything with a trunk diameter over four inches will be slow to es- tablish and a bit risky. Trees sold in containers will guar- antee that you have 100 per- cent of the plant’s root sys- tem when you take it home. Balled and burlapped trees have lost close to 80 percent of their roots in the digging process, so their chances of success are a bit less. Even though they have lost some of their roots, a freshly har- vested balled and burlapped tree can establish just fine when planted in the fall since a new root system forms through the winter months. The initial health and qual- ity of the tree makes all the difference.


All those open areas in your lawn that used to have trees can once again be cov- ered with cooling shade; you just need to bite the bullet and plant the trees back in there soon so they will be able to establish a root sys- tem capable of making it through the next summer. All over my neighborhood are signs of summer heat in- jury on shrubbery. Now is a great time to shear back ev- ergreen shrubs to take off the brown, damaged leaves and stems. Be gentle on flower- ing shrubs such as azaleas and rhododendrons and a bit harder on Japanese yews, euonymous, hollies and box- woods as they can take heavi- er shearing. I would suggest you wait to fertilize all these shrubs in early spring to help them grow back out and re- turn to health next growing season.


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And one last suggestion be- fore the snow starts to fall – plant some spring flowering bulbs this month. There are a lot of wonderful tulips, daf- fodils, crocuses and hyacinths available right now that will


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brighten and cheer up the view around your place next spring. I spend most of my money on daffodil varieties since they will naturalize and are not eaten by rodents and gophers, but there is nothing like a beautiful


bunch of tulips to liven things up.


A lot can be done this fall to help restore your lawn, land- scape and garden next year. If you take advantage of the time you have to control weeds,


compost leaves, plant trees and bulbs and remove damage from your ornamental shrubs, the re- sult will be a beautiful property in the years to come. OL


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