Have you noticed some of your plants are not doing thriving?

This past winter has taken a heavy toll on landscape plant materials due to the extreme cold weather and above average snowfall amounts. Per NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin) indicated that the months of January through March ranked 4^th coldest in 120 years of recorded data. Therefore, you may notice that some of your plants are in distress, have died back in portions or in whole. For the nurseries, the largest hit species include the following:

1. Fir trees (Concolor, Japanese and Turkish)
2. Red Maple
3. Barberry
4. Boxwood
5. Redbud
6. Dogwood (Kousa)
7. St. John’s Wort
8. Holly
9. Inkberry
10. Tamarack Larch
11. Yellow Delicious Apple
12. Russian Cypress
13. Pitch Pine
14. Japanese Black Pine
15. Virginia Pine
16. Emerald Arborvitae
17. Itea Little Henry
18. Western Cedar Arborvitae
19. Eastern Hemlock
20. Doublefile Viburnum