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Greetings!
Summer is in full swing. After such a late start, the flowers are blooming and the gardens are starting to produce. It has been and continues to be a great year for planting trees, shrubs, and perennials.
We are seeing lots of damage from those pesky black vine beetles. They are one insect I recommend you treat, before they totally destroy your plants. Also, lawn issues caused by grubs, billbugs, and sod webworms.
Remember, August is the last month to fertilize your roses and not a good month to prune trees and shrubs. Wait to prune later in the fall. Get out and get some gardening therapy. It's great for your body, mind, and soul. Add color to your life.
Happy gardening,
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A Beautiful Addition to your Landscape
There is nothing as aromatic in the spring as a Carol Mackie Daphne.
Carol Mackie Daphne
 This evergreen shrub has green leaves with gold-yellow edges that fade to cream. It's deep-pink buds open to pale, pink-white blossoms in early spring and give off a very sweet fragrance. This plant is very adaptable and grows 2 to 3 ft. tall and 4 to 5 ft. wide in sun to part shade. It's hardy to Zone 4 (-30 to -20 F).
I have a daphne planted in my yard next to a lilac. This is a picture from this spring, when it was in full bloom.
Yucca
 Golden Sword
A rosette of yellow-centered sword-like green leaves are topped by tall spikes of fragrant, ivory white blooms. This plant forms a dramatic clump with age. Use it to create contrasting textures as a garden accent. Because it is an evergreen, it adds color all year. The plant grows 3 to 4 ft. tall and the flower spikes reach 4 to 6 ft tall. It is hardy to Zone 4 (-30 to -20F) and grows in full sun. It is very drought tolorant, once established.
 A rosette of sword-like mounded green leaves are topped by tall spikes of fragrant, ivory white blooms. This plant forms a dramatic clump with age. Use it to create contrasting textures as a garden accent. Because it is an evergreen it adds interest all year. The plant grows 3 to 4 ft. tall and the flower spikes reach 4 to 6 ft tall. It is hardy to Zone 4 (-30 to -20F) and grows in full sun. It is very drought tolorant, once established.
Tall Garden Phlox
Tall garden phlox are a beauty to behold - a must in every garden. The large flower clusters, produced in abundance during summer, are perched on tall stems that rise just above the dark green foliage. Some are sweetly fragrant, most make good cutflowers, and all are attractive to butterflies. These hardy perennials grow in sun to part sun.
They are beautiful planted in front of white sun hydrangeas.
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Don't Lose Your Tomatoes to Blossom End Rot
 Blossom-end rot is a disorder of tomatoes and peppers. Losses can vary from a small area to more than half the fruit.
Symptoms
The first symptom is a slight water-soaked area on or near the blossom end of the fruit. The affected area soon darkens and enlarges in a constantly widening circle until the fruit begins to ripen. The tissues are dark and shrunken and have a dry, leathery appearance. With peppers, the rot is tan in color and should not be confused with sunscald, which is white.
Cause
Blossom end rot is caused by a lack of calcium in the developing fruit. This may be due to a lack of calcium uptake from the soil or to extreme fluctuations in water supply.
Control
After tomatoes are planted and fruit has started to grow, good results have been obtained by spraying the foliage and fruit with Ferti- lome Yield Booster Blossom-End Rot Spray. Make applications every 7 to 10 days. Application should be done while temperatures are cool in the morning.
Moisture supply plays a critical part in calcium uptake and distribution within the plant. Calcium dissolves in water and moves from the soil into the roots and up the stems into the leaves and fruits. This water and calcium solution replaces moisture as it transpires (evaporates) from the leaves and fruits. The fruits have a high demand for calcium, but the leaves receive more because they have a higher transpiration rate. Supplying water to plants after they come under drought stress only partially relieves the situation since most of the calcium moves into the leaves rather than the fruit. In order to avoid this condition, adequate levels of soil moisture must be maintained consistently during the growing season.
Since blossom-end rot is so closely related to extremes in the water supply, an important aid in control is to regulate moisture supply in the soil. If cultivation is necessary to control weeds, it should be shallow to avoid root pruning. Mulching, which serves to maintain an even supply of soil moisture, should be practiced. To reemphasize, either an inadequate or excess moisture stress favors blossom-end rot development. In general, plants need at least one inch of water per week.
Removing affected fruits when symptoms are first observed may be worthwhile for subsequent development of other fruit on the plant. This is particularly recommended for tomatoes.
The use of Ferti-lome Yield Booster Blossom-End Rot Spray will help stop damage caused by calcium induced Blossom-End Rot and can help your tomato plants produce larger, firmer fruit for bigger, more productive yields.
Visit the garden solutions center at Pinehurst for all your gardening needs.
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Sod Webworm
This little guy can cause a lot of damage.
Sod webworm damage may first appear in early spring as small dead patches of grass. The summer generation of the caterpillar stage of sod webworm may cause turf thinning or irregular dead patches in late June into early August in sunny areas, often on south facing, steep slopes and banks, where it is hot and dry. The damage is often mistaken of grub damage. They emerge from their tunnels in turf thatch at night and chew the blades off.
The adults are buff-colored or grayish-brown moths with a  wingspan of about an inch. They fly in the early morning or late evening in a jerky zigzag pattern, just a few feet above the lawn, which explains another common name for these pests, "lawn moths." They fly up from their hiding places when tall grass is mowed or shrubbery is disturbed.
Sod webworm moths don't feed on lawn grasses, but they drop their eggs into the grass as they fly. After 6 to 10 days, the eggs develop into very hungry caterpillars. These immediately begin feeding on grass blades, and are active only at night. As they feed, they build silk-lined tunnels in the thatch near the soil surface. During the 35 days or so that the webworm lives as a caterpillar, it can eat about 4 square feet of grass.
Lawn damage mistaken for white grub infestation may be treated with grub control, such as Hi-Yield Grub Free Zone, which will not control the sod web worm. The best control is with Hi-Yield Kill-A-Grub granuals, Ferti-lome Garden Pet & Livestock spray, or spinocad spray.
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