Buck and Sons Landscape Blog

Have the Best Flowers Guaranteed!

Nothing in the landscape provides for a more beautiful, colorful and extended display better than annual flowers. These seasonal annuals include geranium, begonia, and impatiens just to name a few. What do landscapers and expert gardeners know that sends their floral displays into explosions of color? Choose the right plants for your exposure 1) First evaluate where you will be planting your annual flowers in order to be successful. If the area that you want to plant flowers is shady, stick with shade tolerant flowers. Don't try to put sun-loving annuals such as geranium, marigold or petunia in shady areas. ...

Five Things You Should Do On the 1st REALLY GREAT Spring Weekend

This weekend promises to be the first really great weekend this spring in Ohio, weather speaking that is! What should you do if you’re itching to get out and work in the yard? Here are five things we recommend ... Enjoy! Aerate. This helps manage dead grass, leaves and winter debris, while also loosening all of that hardened and compacted soil. The Great Clean Up. If you’ve got trees, they’ve likely shed branches this winter. Picking up lingering leaves, dead grass and other “unmentionables” will make you feel accomplished, and your lawn look GREAT. Start Fertilizing. Hit your lawn with a nice dose ...

Your Landscape Needs to be Corrected!

The calendar indicates that spring is here in spite of recent weather events. Now is the time to help our landscapes with some judicial corrective pruning. Be a good landscape disciplinarian by correctly pruning and ultimately guiding your plants growth misdeeds. Dormant Pruning - The Best Selective and Corrective Timing With the foliage off of deciduous trees and shrubs, pruning becomes a much quicker and easier process. At no other time of the year is it as easy to see problem branches that are dead, rubbing, crossing or growing inward. Branches that are infringing upon a structure or neighboring tree or shrub should ...