You Study, Learn, Walk Forward and Discover (Stumble Upon) Simple Solutions

Many of you and my customers have heard me speak of creating delineation of plants, their beds and their surroundings, particularly in regard to the separation of plant canopies and their underlying surroundings, typically the ground or your lawn.

Much of this has to do with aesthetics, but also has a plant health concern attached - better airflow and less chance of disease from ground-lying branches.

We, things in life, stand out, when there is some separation from our surroundings. We and those things don't need to be so unique (a lesson on narcissism, later). We simply need some space to be independent while the rest of the world is trying to identify with most anything. 

Wow! How can a plant among so many others get one's attention? Because they do their own thing among the common genera and specie, and their environ - living life, their life. They become so different, in many ways. And, they are worth getting to know.

Lessons are often learned as one walks through whatever is at hand, educated or otherwise vacating the sole virtues of study. Something beyond its obvious benefit slaps one square in the face...an epiphany, so-to-speak - something so simple.

I do maintain, on routine basis, many of the properties I help restore and repair other-than- obvious mistakes made by other routine providers. I am inclined to look somewhat closer at the health of plants.

Back to raising the canopy of most any plant for aesthetic or health reasons for the plant itself or the overall look of a bed. I soon realized raising the canopy (the distance between the lowest branches and ground) also aids me and my customers in recognizing new unwanted ground-growth and weeds which can become a much larger problem in months or perhaps only a few weeks. This is situational, for many reasons; yet, easy to address.

Doing so affords them the opportunity to do so for themselves or to have someone else possibly eradicate or retard the efforts of those vines and other unwanted's which will wreak havoc much later, probably sooner. An invasive bamboo or wisteria may give up if you catch it early with a weed eater.

Of course, there are other resolutions, but you won't be aware if that hidden greenbrier vine, you couldn't view or recognize, has already twined twelve feet up your camellia and has latched on to the nearby dogwood, distorting the branches of both.

In summary, unrecognized vines and unwanted growth, which could be addressed (recognized early), can be very detrimental or even annihilate plants on your property, quicker than most any disease.

I wander on.