It’s late September and Fall is here! What a great time of year; football, cool mornings and warm afternoons, and planting season. It is a great time to plan for your Fall/Winter landscape additions or enhancements. In my professional opinion, the best time for the installation of new plant material is late Fall and Winter for the larger materials and then early Spring for the small plants such as the perennials and small shrubs or ground covers. This separate planting schedule helps to prevent losing plants to the cold blasts Atlanta and North Georgia can get during the Winter. The larger plants are self-insulating and generally make it through these cold snaps. However, the smaller plants’ rootballs freeze solid, bursting the root hairs and destroying the capability of the roots to function properly upon thawing. The plant dies! This is not due to poor quality plants or contractor error: just plain and simply they “froze to death”.
So, phase your installation times if possible and I’m sure you will have more success with the survivability of your new landscape. Now is a great time for planning your new landscapes.
Pollock & Associates, Inc. can provide you or your friends with a comprehensive master plan that will allow you to phase the implementation over this Fall, coming Spring, as well as future years as necessary. We offer a free initial consultation, so call today to set up an appointment. We look forward to meeting with you!
This is my favorite time of year — crispness in the air (eventually!) — and the onset of Autumn. I’m looking forward to some beautiful landscaping “around the corner” designed by Pollock and Associates!
Good stuff! It seems I almost always wait until the wrong time to plant, or I do too much, or whatever. This is a good reminder!
Beautiful work of a beautiful design accomplished in our side yard! A formerly stark area has been softened by the planting of a variety of suitable flowering and non-flowering shrubs and perennials. I cannot thank Jim enough for his lovely, tailored design, and for the careful implementation of it! Many, many thanks!
I have provided landscaping for a number of jobs for Pollock and Associates and I could not be more pleased to work with these very Professional Architects. If you want a designed plan drawn suited to your particular needs, this is the company to use. I look forward to working with them for many years to come. Impressed with consistent quality on every plan.