What to do now so you’ll love your yard later   (Family Features) – When you’ve mulched the last of the leaves, your fall lawn care isn’t quite done. This transition time from your lawn’s active growth to its healthy dormancy is when you need to take some extra care to help prepare it for next... 

  (Family Features) – Fall is a great time for yard maintenance. Raking leaves is a given for many homeowners, but there are more things you can do to help make sure your lawn, trees and shrubs will be ready for the new growth of spring. “One of the keys to successful yard maintenance is to use the right tools for... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 Whether its due to global climate change or a naturally occurring climate cycle of some sort, Wyobraska’s autumn is becoming a dramatically different season than it was just 20 years ago—and mostly for the better. An average temperature increase of five degrees or so has moved the first hard... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 The warmer and later autumns also make what was the best season for landscaping in Wyobraska even better for xeriscaping. The continuing drought has many Wyobraska homeowners considering xeriscaping. For those few readers that may not remember, xeriscaping is the word developed almost 30 years... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 A warmer than normal September seems to have delayed the onset of fall foliage color around Wyobraska this year, but hints of the colors of autumn are beginning to show. As more and more Wyobraska homeowners begin to add ornamental grasses, shrub roses, and fall blooming perennials to their landscapes,... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2008 The gentle autumn weather has treated us to a particularly long and colorful display of fall foliage, and with the added visual treat of even some of the hardier annual flowers still blooming just a few weeks before Halloween, it’s been a fall filled with exceptional landscape color. Click... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2008 What’s your favorite fall foliage color—red? orange? yellow? purple? All of the above? The last week in September and the first week in October has traditionally been the peak season for fall foliage color in western Nebraska. A warmer than normal September has pushed that back a week... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2008 Warm, sunny days, cool evening air heavy with the musty scent of ripening corn and clover, pink-ripe watermelons, buckets of tomatoes, the first red-tinged apples from the orchard, and the evening symphonies of crickets and cicadas. Perhaps its just the shorter days, but life always seems to... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2008 Cool mornings, warm afternoons, shorter (and shorter) days and evenings. Throw in a few more “breezy” days, and you don’t have to be a meteorologist to know that fall is on the way. Fall is… Click to read full article  Read More →