Here are a few items we would like to highlight this week at our nursery on Milgen Rd.
First, we wanted to let you know about two new plant varieties that have recently been released. They are nice upgrades to the originals.
1. The new “Crimson Fire” Loropetalum stays small and has a deeper color than others. It has the same bright pink flower and leaf shape. If you are tired of having to trim your current loropetalums constantly, this might just be the answer to your prayers. Left alone, it will get approx 18″x 24”.
2. The new ”Blush Pink” Dwarf Nandina. This new variety has a deeper color as well and averages 24″ x 24″.
Both of these make nice color accents to your landscape and are easy to maintain. Also with their small size, they are easy to plant in front of other plant material and not have to be pruned so heavily.
We have them both in stock at our nursery on Milgen Rd. Come by and talk to Jason to find out more about these and other new plant varieties as they become available,
We are proud to have a nice collection of Poly Resin lifelike statues by Nature Scapes. We have a large variety to choose from and you will like these because they are light weight and easy to move around your yard.
Don’t forget, we have firewood for the cold nights ahead!
We are replacing a large drainage pipe and doing some landscaping for a customer in Columbus.We decided to make a behind the scenes video. Below is the first part of the project and part one of the video. We ran into a little trouble the first day when we were digging the ditch. We got our excavator stuck and it set us back a bit.
We now have everything installed and are waiting for the rain to let up.
A rain sensor on your sprinkler system can save you money. It is a very simple devise that tries to mimic soil moisture in your yard.
Frequently, customers ask us “will it stop the sprinkler if it’s raining?” The answer is ‘it depends’.
Rain sensors usually have leather o-rings stacked up on a little post. When they get wet, they expand. When they expand enough, they trip a switch and that switch turns off the sprinkler. Here’s the rub. Depending on how it is set, you may need up to a 1/4″ of rain before it turns off. To someone driving by during a shower, it would seem you were just wasting water. Actually, you aren’t.
Once you reach your set limit, the system will shut-off and stay off until the soil gets dry enough to need water again. The controller will ignore start times until the sensor says so. So, why did I say, ‘it depends’?
Some of the newer sensors have a second set of leather 0-rings. The react much quicker that the main ones. They are there for short passing showers. As soon as the rain starts, the system cuts off. then, it re-starts when the coast is clear. Saving you embarrassment.
If you like saving money on your water bill, a sensor might be just the ticket.
We recently started a new project in a local back yard. They were holding water after their drain got damaged. We were asked to come put a new one in.
Although in a tight space, it seemed to be a pretty straight forward affair. That was true until we had a ditch cave in that put us behind and the rain set in. As of the writing of this post, we have had 4 days of rain since getting the excavator out of the hole.
This is a patio we poured off of Dell Dr in Columbus. We had to cut the hill out and take care of the water that was going against the house. We also built a retaining wall around the patio to keep our elevation. We finished with a deck drain going across the entire patio. Here is the gallery. The concrete was colored and was all done in house by Seasonal Concepts.
Here are a few items we would like to highlight this week at our nursery on Milgen Rd.
We are replacing a large drainage pipe and doing some landscaping for a customer in Columbus.We decided to make a behind the scenes video. Below is the first part of the project and part one of the video. We ran into a little trouble the first day when we were digging the ditch. We got our excavator stuck and it set us back a bit.
We are releasing a new landscape video tomorrow. It’s part one of two and is a behind the scenes of a drainage and landscaping job we are doing.
A rain sensor on your sprinkler system can save you money. It is a very simple devise that tries to mimic soil moisture in your yard.
