Lockwood Landscape Designs

07/19/2025

If you even needed an excuse to buy some more plants! 😁🌱

06/13/2025

03/31/2025

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03/28/2025

03/12/2025

For all my pollinator loving peeps! 🐝🪰🐛

So you left your leaves on garden beds and in nooks and crannies of your yard last Fall in order to create shelter for native pollinators and other wildlife? Good job! You made a difference to our many ground-nesting and leaf-burrowing bees, like bumblebee queens! And now you can feel Spring coming – days are lengthening, you are planning your garden and thinking about impending 60-degree days.

Do you know what your most important Spring Garden job is from now until Mid-April? It’s to DO NOTHING! And boy, is that hard!

Xerces Society offers these “tips” to gauge when it’s time to reach for those rakes this Spring:
1) Have you put away your winter coats and boots and snow shovels? Then the bees still need shelter!
2) Have you filed your taxes? No? Then many bees are still sleeping!
3) Are you mowing your lawn? Nope, then the ground temp is still under 50-degrees and the bees are hiding!
4) Have the fruit trees finished blossoming? Yes, some bees are out pollinating, but others stay nestled in your ground for a few more weeks!

This is not an exact science but gives you some ideas of when to start Spring clean-up. So, sharpen your tools, clean out your potting shed, prune your shrubs, and order your seeds…and wait a bit longer on the raking! Both the bees and your perennials will thank you!

And also to note, it’s ok to gently move leaves away from early perennials that are greening up and remove mats of leaves over bulbs, etc. But resist the temptation to toss these leaves!

CMG Kelli, March 2022

10/11/2019

This is hilarious!!!

MEANWHILE in OREGON

02/11/2019

We need to do more of this!!!

05/18/2017

Tender annuals and vegetables like petunias, begonia, tomatoes, peppers, and more should be well protected. If possible, bring them indoors. If this is not practical, make sure they are well protected. Make sure to use strong supports to keep your frost protection from being weighted down by snow an...