Hi Folks,
Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather we have been having. Still plenty of time to get many things in the ground. It's really the best time for many trees and shrubs, so you get root growth, which never stops here, throughout the fall and winter. Your plants will then be well established by spring and summer. Come see us.
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A Wild and Wet Summer
I don't think anyone I have talked to remembers a summer quite as wet as this past one. It certainly was great to help everything grow; grass, shrubs, trees: everything. I think we all kind of set on ready for a dry day to cut the lawn, and it sure did stay lush and green. The downside to all the rain? For the gardener a lot of root rot on veggies and flower beds, and a lack of blooming on some of our favorites, such as the crepe myrtles. You would see the buds, but when the flowers came out the rain knocked them all off. Frustrating!
Just goes to show you that you just never know what to expect with our wacky weather. Winter predictions? Big John and I both feel like a colder winter than last one and the Farmers Almanac says about the same thing. The only thing you can be sure about is the weather is an inexact science, especially in our area!
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 Layla, Mollie and Me You know, they had a spot for a picture and I had to show you Layla (black lab), Mollie (Heinz 57) and me (bald guy) hanging out during the summer. Layla spends most of the summer on Lisa and my bed soaking in the air and Mollie spends her time looking for food.
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Trimming Your Shrubs and Trees
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All of us darn Yankees that have invaded down here just can't get out of our mind that we must trim in the fall, because up there everything would basically stop growing. With very few exceptions, it's just not true down here. If you trim right before a freeze you will get new growth and that will be damaged by the freeze. Best rules of thumb are: with anything that blooms trim it when it is done blooming. You will end up doing alot of trimming on those things in summer after they bloom in the spring. With things that don't bloom, springtime after the frosts is ideal. If you have to cut in the fall, make it well before we get freezes.
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We're working hard here in the winter. Just got in a nice truck load of plants, if you want first pick of some nice dwarf youpons, blue pacific juniper, amethyst falls wisteria, rabbit eye blueberries and some other nice plants, come get them - it's the best time to plant them. Have to wait on the yesterday, today and tomorrow and pineapple guava till the spring, but I'm keeping them nice and warm for you in the greenhouse. :) We're covering the houses in pastic, and will get in our liners at the end of January to be ready to buy in the spring. I'll definitely write you again when it's time to trim the crepe myrtles in January, if not before then. Enjoy the beautiful weather! We all deserve it.
Sincerely,
John
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