Sanitizing Tomato Cages and Pruners
If you've had diseases or any kind of fungus in the past in your tomatoes, it's a good idea to sanitize your cages, garden tools, and any stakes or anything like that, because that [...]
Splitting Hostas Up in Early Spring
Sandy in Canton, asks, ‘I have a question about the hosta plant. Do the hosta plants spread on their own? Are you talking about just getting bigger as a clump or by seed? When [...]
How Long Should My New Crabapple Tree Stay Staked?
An email from Sue who says, ‘I bought a lovely seven-gallon coral burst crabapple from Rohrs last May. How long does it need 10 gallons of water a week under normal conditions and when [...]
Popular Plants, New Redbuds, & Shrubs at Rohr’s!
I wanted to talk a little bit about lava lamp flare hydrangea, and maybe the Hearts of Fire redbud and some of the newer varieties of hydrangeas, redbuds and shrubs. Talking about popular plants, [...]
How to Move or Graft a 32 Year Old Rosebush
Linda from Canton asks, ‘how do you safely split off a section of a 32 year old rosebush when moving it?’ Don't move your 32 year old rosebush. They don't divide like a perennial, [...]
What’s Popular & How Do Growers Use That Feedback?
What is everybody looking for this year? Everybody wants something small and low-maintenance, something that they don't need to maintain but that blooms all year. Hydrangeas, summer blooming paniculata hydrangeas, are just so low-maintenance [...]
We’re Getting More & More Trees! Featuring the Witch Hazel Tree
We're bringing in those hundreds of trees in the spring and then we pot them up. Instead of sticking a plant like that in the ground and then the burlap rots off the ball [...]
First Trees of the Season Have Arrived at Rohr’s Nursery!
For the last four or five years, we've been very lucky that we were able to bring the first load in the last week of February. And we've got multiple loads lined up for [...]
Pruning Macrophylla Hydrangeas With Stem Dieback
Carol in Canton says, ‘Good morning, I have two questions. One, I've called before about my hydrangeas, but I'm really frustrated with them towards fall. Well, they didn't do well at all last year [...]
Pruning Your Deciduous Trees and Shrubs
Now is a good time to schedule tree trimmings before things leaf out. You can see what you're doing better, for starters. Late winter time is a great time to prune almost all trees, [...]