Landscape Tips for October
There’s no denying it… Fall is here! Here at Creative Visions Landscapes, we are doing a lot of fall clean up and getting ready for winter. There are leaves to be raked, water features to winterize, drainage to improve. We’ve got projects to wrap up before winter hits!
Here are just a few landscape tips for October
- Cut back perennials
- Plant bulbs
- If needed, improve soil drainage needs of lawns before rain begins.
- To suppress future pest problems, clean up annual flower beds by removing diseased plant materials, overwintering areas for insect pests; mulch with manure or garden compost to feed the soil and suppress weeds.
- Store garden supplies and fertilizers in a safe, dry place out of reach of children.
Landscape Tips for September
September has arrived! Many kids are back in school and fall sports are being played. This is a great time of the year in Oregon. We tend to get some beautiful days in September, cool mornings warm afternoons and beautiful sunsets! You’ve got to love the fall in the Northwest!
If you’re running kids to football, volleyball and soccer practices while trying to maintain a full-time job we know it’s difficult to remember what you’re supposed to do with your landscape. So, here are some tips to help you out.
- Check soil moisture levels through December
- Divide hosta and daylilies
- Plant fall flowers like pansies
- Complete fall lawn seeding projects
- Aerate lawns
October Landscape Tips
October… all ready? Wow! Where has this year gone?
We are getting ready for our pumpkins to be delivered and can’t wait for all the great food, fun and get-togethers that happen between now & the end of the year. Oh, and don’t forget about our costume and pumpkin carving contest on October 15th!
Don’t get too busy to take care of a few October landscaping issues.
- Cut back perennials
- Plant bulbs
September Landscape Tips
Well, it’s September and we’re all wondering where summer went. Did we have more than a couple weeks of it this year? We’re hoping the sun will stick around for a while and we can extend summer into September and October! However, since we know what is coming shortly… we’d better prepare. So, here are a few landscape tips for you for September.
- Check soil moisture levels through December
- Divide hosta and daylilies
- Plant fall flowers like pansies
- Complete fall lawn seeding projects
July Landscape Tips
Happy July! We hope you are having a great summer so far. While it has been a bit on the cool side it sounds like the great holiday weekend may get a little toasty. So, drink lots of water and wear plenty of sunscreen! Here are a few of landscaping tips for July.
- Deadhead perennial blossoms to promote new growth
- Cut back fall-blooming perennials by 1/3 to delay bloom
- Check to make sure plantings have enough water, especially on the hottest days
June Landscape Tips
We are ready for some of that beautiful Oregon SUNSHINE!! It’s been a long wet spring and many lawns are really taking off as are the weeds. Here are a few landscape tips to help you get outside and enjoy that sunshine while getting your yard looking great!
• Spray weeds
• Allow bulb foliage to completely yellow and then cut back to the ground
• Prune spring-flowering shrubs and trees
Make and Take: Hanging Basket Seminar 2011
Join us on Satuday, May 14th, 2011 to learn how to plant a hanging basket or pot. We have the supplies and knowledge, you come to learn. This is a pay seminar, but you will learn a new skill and have a beautiful product to take home and enjoy. Please call us for details. We only have 9 hanging baskets, so call now to reserve yours. This would be a great seminar for your kids too. 503.663.5483.
2011 Spring Pond Jumpstart Seminar
Please join us for our first seminar of the season. Saturday, April 2nd at 10am or 2pm. At 9965 SE Orient Dr. in Boring. Space is limited, so please RSVP. This seminar will go over pond cleaning, fish care, and algae. Ben will be presenting. He is new to our staff and we are so happy to have him. He is very knowledgeable and has extensive experience with pond building, maintenance and fish handling and care. We know you will enjoy hearing him and come away knowing how to tackle your pond this spring. There will be a seminar special for (3) products including the Microbe-Lift Bacteria for Spring/Summer and AlgaeFix.
2010 Winterizing Your Pond Seminar Notes
Did you miss our Free Seminar? Don’t worry, here’s a recap.
-Winterizing Your Pond Seminar-
-Introduction and brief history of Creative Visions
Creative Visions Landscape, Inc has been in business in the Portland Metro & Vancouver Area for 24 years. We started out providing maintenance services and in 1999 became licensed by the Landscape Contractors Board to do landscaping and water features. Our location where we are at now, we purchased 7 years ago. We operate our landscape company there and in March
2010 we opened our Water Garden Center. We hope it to be a destination for the water garden connoisseur for years to come.
-Water gardening philosophy
Our philosophy at Creative Visions Landscape & Water Garden Center is to provide good quality products and services that work well and the information on how to use them. If we don’t have the answer to your questions we will research it and get the answer for you. We also don’t think it is beneficial to our customers to be the cheapest in town or the most elite, so our goal is to have affordable equipment, products and services so you our most valued customer can maintain a healthy pond/water feature at an affordable price.
-Brief outline of the course
Topics covered today will include water health, fall and winter feeding, fall maintenance check list, cleaning your pond in the fall, cozy winter water, re-cap the most important keys and go over a winter maintenance check list.
-Water Health
• Water testing is extremely important especially for new ponds and during the early spring months. Test kits are available or you can bring in a water sample and we’d be happy to test it. Track your results so that you can detect any early warning signs of a crash. Usually what happens is that everything seems normal to the eye but the chemistry of the water is slowly walking towards the edge of a cliff. Once it falls of the cliff you are experiencing a crash, fish will start dying and it is extremely hard to bring the water back to equilibrium. Continue reading