Lindstrom Lawn Care and Landscaping – Antioch IL

Looking to add a few plants to your landscape this year? Why not something low maintenance.  Here are a few popular plants that will take very little effort to maintain.

Echinacea- Cone Flower

Blooms: Summer

Flowers : Purple, White, Orange, Yellow, Pink

A drought tolerant perennial, native to the midwestern and southeastern United States. Flowers are arranged individually on sturdy, elongated stems with  purple petals surrounding an iridescent red-orange, coned center. Prefers full sun to partial shade in fertile, well-drained soils.

Hosta

Blooms: Mid Summer

Flowers: Purple or white

Hostas come in hundreds of varieties many different sizes, colors, and textures.  These plants are grown for their foliage, and are a great shade plant.  Hosta bulbs should be divided about every three years.

Peony

Blooms: Around Memorial Day

Flowers: Pink, White, Red, Yellow

Peony plants bear an attractive, glossy green foliage that reaches 2′-3′ in height with a similar spread. But their popularity is due mainly to their flowers, usually pink, red or white. Other colors and flower types do exist, however. . Peony plants bloom around memorial day.

Iris Siberica Siberian Iris

Blooms: Late Spring

Flowers: Blues, Purples, Whites

This beardless Iris is very easy to grow and looks great throughout the gardening season.   These plants are very hardy, easy to grow, and increase readily.  Average flower size is 3-4″ in diameter and they appear in early summer.  The sword-like leaves are bright green and remain standing for a long time.

Heuchera Corell Bells

Blooms: Late Spring/Early Summer

Flowers: White, Pink, Red

Coral Bells begin blooming in early June and don’t stop until the end of August.   Will grow in any well-drained alkaline soil.  Even though they tolerate a couple hours of shade, best results are achieved when grown in full sun.   

Winter is a great time for pruning your trees and shrubs, because insects are not out to transmit disease.  You will not have guests outside so this time of year you can prune your plants severely.  If you are a do it yourself landscaper get outside on a nice winter day and go for it!

Health

You want to take out any abnormal growths such as crown gall.  Fertilizer is good for the health of the plant but this should be done during the growing season.  Watch out or winter plant damage from snow, ice, and salt, for more information read our blog on Winter Plant Damage.

Maintenance

Keep trees limbed in a nice canopy.  All of the “suckers” coming up from the ground should be cut off.  Shrubs should be kept below windows so if you have to take a foot off that hedge growing up against your house, don’t worry it will have plenty of time to recover.

To Protect People

You want to make sure that your plants do not block the view of traffic in this can be a problem in medians in newly built subdivisions A nice small tree is planted without thinking ten years later in grows and now is blocking your view when driving. Watch out for these thaese things and if it’s problem prune them.

How to make a clean cut

By making three cuts you will take the weight off the limb before making the third cut so it will be nice and clean.  When pruning in the winter you do not need dressing also known as the “black paint” they use to cover up the pruning cuts.

Located in Antioch, Illinois:

Lindstrom services the Northern Lake County, Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin regions.

Lindstrom is your go to place for all Landscaping Design, Build, and Maintenance needs. In the winter, Lindstrom also services your snow removal needs.