Tag: Ask Burton

Ask Burton: Q: I watered heavily all season long to keep my new plants alive, and now my lawn and flowerbeds are infested with nutsedge. How do I kill it, and not my other plantings?
Ask Burton : Q: I have a new home this year, with new landscaping. The builder installed drip irrigation with our new plantings, but I still had plants burn up this summer despite running my system for fifteen minutes a station every day. Do I need to install spray heads before replacing them?
Ask Burton: Q: Now that we are getting towards the end of summer, when do I need to fertilize again?
ASK BURTON: Q: My crape myrtle is dripping sap, isn’t blooming right, and generally just looks tired. There are also tiny white dots up and down the branches. How do I fix this?
Ask Burton: Q: I’m watering generously, and this August’s unpleasant heat is still battering our new plants. What am I doing wrong?
Ask Burton: Q: My flowers next to my front door are looking pale and wimpy – I’ve been watering them every day in this heat, as they’re in containers, but they’re still looking poorly. Any ideas to what’s going on?
Ask Burton: Q: I have a scattering of leaves starting to turn brown and fall on the interior and lower canopies of my mature trees. The species does not matter – they are all doing it a little. I can only water once per week because of city restrictions.
Ask Burton: Q: I had a nice bed of roses until they were visited by rose rosette this year. I want plant recommendations that will bloom as long as my roses did, grow in similar sizes, and won’t catch that disease.
Ask Burton: Q: One of my mature Bradford pear trees is suddenly turning yellow, orange, and brown, while the rest of my yard looks fine. What could be causing this, and how can I help the tree recover?
Ask Burton: This week it’s all about the behavior of plants that are suitable to plant in our area… when the types of plants chosen do not play well together. So many landscape problems can be headed off with proper, prior planning. This article could well be titled… Plants that do NOT go together… at least, not like that!