" I know soil pH affects the color of Hydrangeas..."

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Sedum 'Brilliant' looking great!

Here's a list of great looking perennials - in stock and in good supply - ready for your next job!

Achillea millefolium 'Paprika' (Yarrow) filling their pots 

Chasmanthium latifolium (Northern Sea Oats) great grass that can take some shade with an interesting seedhead

Monarda x 'Jacob Klein' (Bee Balm) full in their pots 

Phlox divaracata 'Chattahoochee' (Woodland Phlox) in bud and blooming! 

Sedum spectabile  'Brilliant'  (Stonecrop) lush foliage  with a bright pink flower in summer 

Question: " I know that soil pH affects the color of Hydrangeas but how much acidifier should I use to make them blue?"

Answer: 

The blue color for hydrangeas relies on the availability of aluminum in the soil.  Aluminum becomes more available to the plant at lower pH ranges (more acidic).  How much sulfur or how much aluminum sulfate is needed to change the pH is of course dependent on the composition of the soil. Two different, soils with the same pH, could have totally different requirement for the amount of sulfur or aluminum sulfate, to get the pH to change the same amount. Please note that it is the availability of the aluminum at lower pH ranges that creates the blue flowers.

Espoma soil acidifier comes in a 6 pound bag and is 30% sulfur. It is suggested to use 2.5 cups (1.25 pounds of product which contains .375 pounds of sulfur) around the drip line of the plant and water in well. Then it states to repeat the application in 60 days until the desired pH is reached or blue bloom color is achieved. From the latter part of these instructions it is easy to see that applications vary according to soil types. I would suggest getting at least a pH test done on the soil in question to eliminate most of the guess work.

If you would like more details on moving soil pH set aside an hour or two and ask for Mark or Darryl and we will be happy to explain!

Submit your landscaping question via email to sbarbier@planterschoice.com and you'll be entered in a monthly drawing to receive 10% OFF your next purchase (pick up only, does not apply to deliveries). Please use "Question of the Week" in the subject line and let me know if you want your name and business mentioned. 

Bifenthrin .1 HDG

You may be aware of the warm weather we have been having but not aware of the chinch bug populations that this weather is encouraging.

Chinch bugs love the heat and they pierce the grass blade down near the soil line and suck the nutrients out of the plant thereby weakening it. Excessive thatch layers also help harbor chinch bugs and other damaging insects.

In anticipation of  this damaging insect we now have Bifenthrin .1 HDG in stock to help you combat this and other damaging insects !

If you have questions, please stop in and ask!

Remember: Read the label carefully and follow the directions.

Incoming this week- Gorgeous Norway Spruce, Large Azaleas, Wooden Trellises and more Annuals!   

Heritage River Birch

Deciduous Trees 

Betula nigra 'Heritage' (River Birch) Down from our fields!

Quercus pal. 'Green Pillar' (Columnar Pin Oak) 

Taxodium distichum (Bald Cypress) 'Peve Minaret', 'Shawnee Brave'  

Deciduous Shrubs
Ligustrum ovalifolium (California Privet)

Vitex agnus-castus 'Abbeville Blue' (Chaste Tree) 

Larger size azaleas fresh off the truck

Broadleaf and Specimen Evergreens

Abies koreana 'Horstmann's Silberlocke' (Korean Fir)

A. pinsapp (Spanish Fir) 'Aurea', 'Glauca'  

Azalea 'Delaware Valley White',' Girard's Crimson, 'Tradition'  

Buxus semp. (Boxwood) 'Graham Blandy', 'Green Gem', 'Green Mountain' and Common Boxwood 

Cedrus atlantica (Blue Atlas Cedar) 'Glauca', 'Glauca Pendula'

Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Cypress)  'Cripsii', 'Gracilis', 'Wells Special'   

Euonymus pat. (Euonymus) 'Manhattan'

Ilex crenata (Japanese Holly) 'Chesapeake', 'Compacta', 'Excelsa Schwoebel', 'Helleri', 'Nigra',  'Schwoebel Compacta', 'Steeds'

I. glabra (Inkberry) 'Shamrock'

I. x meservae (Hybrid Blue Holly) 'Blue Maid', 'China Boy', 'China Girl', 'Honey Maid' 

Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain Juniper) 'Sky Rocket'

Pinus st. 'Pendula' (Weeping White Pine)  

P. thunbergii 'Thunderhead (Japanese Black Pine)

Rhododendron 'Cunningham White', 'Percy Wiseman'

Sciadopitys vert. (Japanese Umbrella Pine) 

Douglas Fir

Cryptomeria j. 'Yoshino' (Japanese Cedar)  

Picea abies (Norway Spruce)

P. glauca  (White Spruce) 

P. pungens (Colorado Spruce)

Pseudotsuga m. (Douglas Fir) 

Thuja occidentalis (Emerald Green)

T. plicata (Western Arborvitae) 'Green Giant'  

Creeping Phlox

Perennials

Aquilegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns' 

Gallium odoratum (Sweet Woodruff) in bloom

Heuchera x 'Caramel' (Coral Bells) 

Lavandula (Lavender)  

Phlox stolonifera (Creeping Phlox) 

P. subulata (Mountain Pinks)

Think containers!

Hardgoods
Wooden Trellis - 9' Fan and 2' x 6' square (great for climbing Roses and Clematis)

Annuals
Fresh supply in this week! 

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