The year went by so fast as we get ready to enter the cold and dark of December. The first week of December seems quite dark as the sun does set earlier than during the winter solstice about 3 weeks later. Many deliveries of grave decorations have been already… 
As the holiday season fast approaches, the closing up for winter on the tree and shrub side is nearly done as the last of the stock has been put away and the overwintering houses have received their batten strips which are strong plastic lengths of poly ethylene… 
While the last of the leaves are almost off the trees, flowering pears, dawn redwoods and bald cypress are stubborn about giving up their foliage. The burnt orange of the Dawn Redwood and Bald Cypress have a beautiful amber hue about them when the sun illuminates the… 
With the now removed annual flowers from the landscape beds, the next binge at the nursery is weed control. Glypsophate (Roundup) is employed to kill weeds that will overwinter and then bolt upward with the warmer days and longer days of spring. Two troublesome weeds…
