Neil Sperry: Plant Oakland hollies year-round, but keep the water flowing
, and they sound like just what I need for privacy. How well do they tolerate rocky soils, and when should they be planted?I’ll take the easy question first. Since they’re always sold in containers with all their roots intact, Oakland hollies can be planted 12 months a year.
As for rocky soils, the more organic matter they have and the fewer rocks their roots have to encounter, the better they will do. That’s doubly critical in alkaline soils. If you scalp bermuda too early, late frost may damage its new growth in spring. It’s best to do it a couple of weeks before the average date of the last killing freeze for our locale.Probably. The gray and grayish-green growths are lichens, a symbiotic population of algae and funguses, but the black growths in your small photo are something else. Unless your trees are showing some type of distress, you probably don’t need to worry.
Back to the annual bluegrass: Research and field experience have shown in recent years that the weed is showing resistance to common consumer herbicides. As a result, control may not be as complete as we’d like. That’s probably what you’re seeing, and for that we currently don’t have a good solution.
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