Sedge Garden Nursery, Inc.
4550 Kernersville Rd.
Kernersville, NC
336.788.6862
Convenient to Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point, and the entire North Carolina Piedmont Triad area.
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Frequently Asked Questions
(Or "what are we doing wrong?")
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My flowering cherry tree lost all of its leaves back in September. Is the tree dead? |
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Quite a few cherries, lilacs, etc. lost their leaves early during the late summer season the last two years. A large number of these trees are not dead. They shut themselves down because of environmental conditions, ie. heat and drought. Try peeling the bark back on a few branches. If it is dark green and moist, the tree is probably okay. Water the trees at least once a week during the summer to help them get through with less stress.
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When is it too late to plant in the fall? |
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When the ground freezes solid which does not happen often in the Piedmont. Seriously we love to plant through November and the first part of December. Winter is less prone to kill a plant than Summer is. The earlier the plant can start rooting out the better. We over-winter plants in pots at our store sucessfully but.....being in the ground is much better for them. Fall 2010 was very dry. Folks lost plants last winter not so much because of cold weather but because they did not water weekly. You should water even in the fall and winter to keep the plants healthy, especially the first year.
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Should we still fertilize plants in the fall or should we wait until spring to start fertilizing again? |
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When we plant trees and shrubs in the fall and winter we still feed them with Hollytone 4-3-4 in the hole. The plants are not going to have a detrimental growth surge from this and it will be available in early spring. We have been doing it this way for 34 years...it works. On most existing trees and shrubs it is okay to topdress lightly with fertilizer. We generally stop feeding azaleas, rhododendron, and pieris in September. There are exceptions to the rule. Call us on specific plants.
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When do you prune Japanese maples? |
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Most maples get pruned in the early fall. We actually like to prune Japanese maples in the late winter. They do not bleed at that time like red and sugar maples would. Deb and I have six massive Japanese maples in our yard that get pruned in February. We have pictures of these healthy beauties at the store. Do not remove more than 10 to 15 percent of the wood in any given year.
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When do we prune our birch trees? |
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Early fall is best for most pruning. If you prune a birch in the late winter it will literally shower you with fluid from the cuts.
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