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Memorial Day Rhodedendrons

Memorial Day Rhodedendrons

The ideal time to plant Rhododendrons is when they’re in bloom and this Memorial Day Weekend looks perfect Rhodies start their new growth right after they flower, and the roots grow at the same time as the tops. These are just beginning to show color so come up to the...

Sand based Lawns in Southeast Alaska

Sand based Lawns in Southeast Alaska

Over the years we have worked in this environment several lessons have made themselves clear, and one very important one is that planting lawns on soil has some serious drawbacks. One is that good well drained soil is often difficult to come by, most soil offered for...

The Art and Strategy of Groundcovers

The Art and Strategy of Groundcovers

The role of the ground cover category of ornamental plants and its’ place in the built landscape is a murky subject at best and is downright confusing for most gardeners. What are they, how to use them, and why would one ever want them is a question that many...

Low Maintenance Basics

Low Maintenance Basics

We always look to the wild world for instruction, and as we think of a low maintenance garden or landscape model we naturally turn once again to our source. In the natural landscape there are no weeds, there are no mowers or edgers, nobody prunes or spreads bark, and...

Property Value and Your Landscape

Property Value and Your Landscape

Landscape for our Climate, and for Your Lifestyle The experience of your house begins when you turn the corner onto your street; your house sits in a neighborhood and has a relationship with the adjoining properties. It will inevitably be compared to surrounding...

Using Native Plants in the Domestic Landscape

Using Native Plants in the Domestic Landscape

Using Native Plants in the Domestic Landscape There are many reasons for including native plants in our domestic spaces, they’re adapted to the climate and soils, they’re food and fuel for the native fauna, they’re in keeping with many of the codes of right plant for...

Moving to new location!

Moving to new location!

This is an exciting time for Landscape Alaska! We moved our Garden Center! We have purchased a home at 11029 Mendenhall Loop Rd. on the back loop. It’s just past Goat Hill and up a driveway to a meadow on top of the hill overlooking the whole valley. We’re still...

Caring for big trees is like caring for elephants

Caring for big trees is like caring for elephants

Taking care of big trees is a lot like caring for elephants. They are so much larger than we are, they live so much longer than we do and they move to another rhythm. Big trees have a history that spans many human lives. Our sense is that they watch us and our...

Blooms show signs of satisfaction

Blooms show signs of satisfaction

Every street in every neighborhood has flowers blooming this week. The annual garden party is in full swing, and all our neighbors are there in their finest. The huge rhododendrons that anchor our summer landscapes are in full color right now, giant faces of lavender,...

Perennial concert beginning to rock and roll

Perennial concert beginning to rock and roll

The audience is a little restless as the lights go up. Days get longer, temperature of the soil rises, the first dancers appear and the orchestra begins to play. Anemones and primroses peek up, small drifts of color swirl across the stage and the perennial concert...

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