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The Un-Planned Pollinator Garden

Nov
11

After visiting the gardens at our shop, a new client decided that was the look they wanted- a wild prairie garden. Even the more orderly section of our garden has a natural feeling with its mountain mint filling in with abandon, a diminutive white flowering mint popping up in random spots (AKA open areas that need coverage), and echinacea reseeding well and promising to create very lush stands in short order. The appearance of our garden begs the question: can you plan a natural prairie-pollinator garden? The answer is yes, and no.

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Wimberg Landscaping
November 6, 2018
5401 Hetzell Ave
Cincinnati, Ohio 45227

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1

Garden Delegation
I’ve been gardening for around 20 years doing it all myself. I’ve dug ponds, mowed, edged, built raised beds; you name it, I&...
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Jun
25

Being Smart About Water-Wise Plants
I love it when I hear gardeners say they are introducing new plants in their gardens. There are simply too many fantastic plants no...
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Jun
25

Three Hardscape Elements to Add Now
The addition of a stone element to your landscape is one of the best ways to add value, a permanent design feature and update your yard....
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Jun
18

Wait? I still have to water?
It must be summer because I’m writing about watering, yet again. We’ve had some nice rain showers the past week or so and the...
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Jun
9

The Same, But Yet Very Different
When we renovated the focal garden at Ault Park the four segments that make up the outer circle were designed using the same plants and i...
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May
30

Surefire Ways to Kill Your Tree It’s amazing how many ways people have found to kill their trees or, in the least, put them under a great deal of undue stress. Trees don’t...
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Apr
24

YOUR SPRING COLOR GUIDE

In no time at all, gardeners will be flocking to nurseries to buy annuals for their gardens. It’s exciting to be able to dig i...
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Apr
24

THREE THINGS YOUR DESIGNER CAN'T WAIT TO LEARN

“There are dozens of ways to design a property, but typically I start with just listening to how the client wants to use their...
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Apr
2

PLANNING BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING, NOW! Your garden designer would love to talk to you about bulbs for fall planting, now. Yes, we know it’s early spring and we are still waiting f...
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Mar
26

WHY PLANTS FAIL… It’s a common practice to tour the neighborhood and look at others’ gardens to gleam ideas for your own landscape. You’re all in the same US...
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Mar
21

WHAT WE CAN DO NOW, IN THE APRIL GARDEN Confession, I have been visiting my gardens several times a week. The signs of spring are here, some are subtle, but they are here. Spring i...
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Mar
19

IT’S NOT CHEATING, IT’S SMART I had an interesting conversation with an avid, life-long gardener the other day. She wants a new garden, one inspired by Piet Oudolf. I tho...
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Mar
12

IT'S NOT INVASIVE, IT'S A BULLY There are plants we know never to use in the garden again. Some were introduced by well-meaning plant explorers and nurserymen and others w...
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Mar
5

LET'S START PLANTING! Yes!

The rule of thumb about waiting for Mother's Day is excellent advice for annuals, especially those more susceptible t...
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Mar
3

SPRING IS IN THE AIR! We made it! We survived another winter in Cincinnati, and that can only mean one thing, it’s time for spring clean-ups.

Even...
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Feb
26

LIGHTING THE WAY Perhaps one of the most underutilized design elements and one of the most impactful is lighting. “What I love about lighting is its flexibil...
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Feb
19

THREE TREES FOR THE WINTER LANDSCAPE In the winter garden annuals have left the stage and perennials have taken a few steps back. What remains is the patterns of our garden beds...
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Feb
17

SATURATED AND THEN SOME Oh my, it’s warm out! I think I saw the sun! Are those flowers coming up?

Spring is making an appearance, and with spring comes...
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Feb
15

WHY YOUR DESIGNER WANTS TO MEET WITH YOU NOW The ground is soaked with late winter rains and the wind is howling outside our windows. This can only mean one thing: it’s the perfect time...
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Feb
12

MIXED, MASSED OR INTERMINGLED? One of the main objectives of landscape and garden designers is to decipher what a client envisions when they say they want a mixed, massed...
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Feb
8

GRASSES IN THE WINTER GARDEN The grasses in the Wimberg Landscaping Focal Garden at Ault Park look fabulous with a thin coating of ice. They beautifully illustrate why w...
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Feb
5

DESIGNING WITH STONES IN THE SMALL GARDEN “My garden is too small to do all of this.” I have heard this said time and time again, usually when I am at Bettman or touring another publ...
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Jan
29

5 REASONS TO GARDEN PUBLIC LAND If you read my Q&A in the recent newsletter, (link here) you learned that after returning to Cincinnati I became what I call a landless...
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Jan
29

UNDER THE RADAR: THREE PLANTS THAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR MUST-HAVE LIST Three must-have plants sounded like a good idea for a column, but how can I possibly pick just three? That’s like saying you can only have t...
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Jan
29

ONE-ON-ONE WITH JENNIFER SMITH A little garden chat with Jennifer Smith, Horticulturist, client services and garden writer and photographer for Wimberg Landscaping.

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Jan
25

LESSER CELANDINE Take a walk around a park, nature preserve, or your neighborhood and you are apt to see a plant that was introduced with good intentions tha...
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Jan
24

WHY DESIGNERS SEE THE FUTURE “When we look at a landscape, we see how it could be this year as well as what it will become three, five even 10 years out,” shares Peter W...
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Jan
22

WHEN STONES PREVAIL We mentioned before how design plans are mere snapshots in the landscape’s evolution. We show clients what the gardens will look like in a y...
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Jan
17

NO NEED TO PANIC I don't want to set off alarm bells, but Sunday, before this most recent snowfall, I saw bulbs emerging in the gardens. No worries, all...
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Jan
15

FIVE GRASSES WE ADORE Grasses are a staple design element for any garden theme from prairie to conifer garden. Grasses add movement, they are soft and structural...
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Jan
9

THE LANDLESS GARDENER RETURNS! Wimberg Landscaping is pleased to share that our very own Jennifer Smith is once again penning her popular blog, Adventures of a Landless Ga...
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Jan
8

NATURAL STONE IN THE GARDEN A popular and quite versatile design element for the garden is natural stone. When you think of stonework you’re apt to envision stone walls...
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Jan
5

WHY ANNUALS Savvy gardeners and professional garden designers are already in the throes of designing their spring gardens. They know that without a plan...
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Jan
2

BEFORE YOU KNOCK THAT SNOW OFF, READ THIS! Snow accumulation on your trees and shrubs may not be an issue. It all depends on the type of snow that’s blanketing the branches. It’s diff...
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Dec
28

NOTES FROM THE GARDEN - BETTMAN This may be the first day I am not tempted to work at Bettman. It’s well below freezing and even I don't find that appealing. But up unt...
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Dec
26

THREE WHITE PLANTS FOR THE SHADE Think back on your shade garden. Better, yet, if you have photos pull them up. Is your eye drawn to the back of the garden, to the far corne...
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Dec
20

ONE-ON-ONE WITH TIM GRUBBS Tim Grubbs - Operations Manager

Tim Grubbs
Tim is a member of our team that walks the line between behind the scenes and...
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Dec
20

WHEN TREES STAND ALONE We often talk about incorporating trees in the home’s landscape and we are, for the most part, looking at the tree as part of a cohesive gar...
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Dec
14

NOTES FROM THE GARDENS - BETTMAN There is still a lot of activity at Bettman. New trees and shrubs are being planted, leaf removal is underway and tree and shrub pruning is...
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Dec
7

FALLING INTO WINTER AT THE GARDENS When the Muhly grass was in full color earlier this summer, the gardens were glowing pink and I thought to myself, It won't get much bet...
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Dec
6

4 REASONS WHY WE LOVE WINTER TREE PLANTING Planting trees now, in the late fall and into winter, is a wonderful idea. The timing is perfect and a new tree adds value and visual intere...
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Dec
4

ONE-ON-ONE - CONNIE BRASINGTON Connie Brasington - Office Manager
Connie has been part of our team since 1996. She started as a part time employee answering phones a...
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Nov
29

IN THE WINTER GARDEN Most of us, when we are looking for plants to add to our gardens, consider a plant's leaves, flowers and texture. Then we determine if i...
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Nov
24

ONE-ON-ONE WITH JOHN WIMBERG Tell us about how you came to work with Wimberg Landscaping and your ongoing career with the company.

I started working...
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Nov
16

CHORES IN THE WINTER GARDEN - COVER-UP Cover-Up

Get a jump on spring with a pinefine amendments and pine straw mulching. “There is a bit of a science to mulching,” ex...
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Nov
16

CHORES IN THE WINTER GARDEN - ORNAMENTAL TREE CARE Ornamental Tree Care

An ornamental tree in the landscape can be a great value or a liability, depending on how well it is cared...
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Nov
16

CHORES IN THE WINTER GARDEN - DEATH TO HONEYSUCKLE!! Death to Honeysuckle!

If there was ever a poster plant for invasive, thuggish, regrettable plants introduced into the landscape...
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Nov
14

NOTES FROM THE GARDEN - BETTMAN With my wheelbarrow rehabilitated, I was moving pinefine amendments with ease Sunday morning. The colors in the gardens were gorgeous- golds...
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Nov
9

THREE THINGS PROFESSIONAL GARDENERS ALWAYS NOTICE Garden professionals such as the Wimberg Landscaping maintenance teams, see the landscape differently. They have the ability to assess the c...
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Nov
8

3 SHADE GARDEN DESIGN INSIGHTS Oftentimes, extra effort is taken in the design of a shade garden, especially one that is a bit removed from the house, to draw visitors in....
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Nov
7

THE VERY WET GARDEN Take caution before you dig. With all the rain we had last night and Sunday the gardens may be exceptionally wet and a bit dangerous should...
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Nov
6

NOTES FROM THE GARDENS - PETE'S GARDEN We are shifting gears quickly at the shop. We are still managing new landscape and hardscape installations, but we are also closing up garde...
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Oct
30

LEAF REMOVAL It’s that time of year again! Fall has arrived and so have the colorful leaves covering every inch of our yards. Save yourself the energy, b...
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Oct
30

WHY MAINTENANCE MATTERS Wimberg Landscaping has four maintenance teams, each led by a seasoned professional whose years of experience makes them ideally suited to c...
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Oct
25

2 UNEXPECTED AND INVALUABLE GARDEN TOOLS Every gardener has a garden tool, or two, she can’t live without. Mine is my CobraHead and Felco Pruners. But this time of the year, as the...
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Oct
23

3 KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL LANDSCAPE A successful landscape, meaning one that is healthy and attractive, comes down to three simple elements. No matter where you are gardening,...
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Oct
20

NOTES FROM THE GARDENS - 5 WINNING PLANTS FROM BETTMAN Bettman has been an interesting place to garden these past three years. I head to the garden as often as I can, admittedly far more often at...
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Oct
18

3 TIPS FOR DIVIDING PERENNIALS This time of year many gardeners are asking: Do I need to divide my perennials? How do I divide my perennials? And the most honest question...
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Oct
16

PLANTS OF NOTE - MUHLY GRASS The first time I planted Muhlenbergia capillaris, AKA Muhly Grass was in the Adopt-a-Plot Focal Garden in Ault Park. I was already smitten w...
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Oct
13

ARE YOU WATERING ENOUGH? Walks around the neighborhood and trips to my gardens have proven one thing, you are not watering enough. Is she talking about watering agai...
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Oct
11

NOTES FROM THE GARDENS- YUCCAS!! There are not many times you will hear gardeners say they love yuccas. Unless, perhaps it's a variety like Yucca filamentosa 'Color...
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Oct
9

CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE There are garden trends and then there are garden movements. Trends are hot for a moment then slip out of the spotlight when something new c...
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Oct
6

PLANTS OF NOTE: CALLICARPA AMERICANA Every year gardeners stand with hands on hips wondering to themselves, "Why did I add this shrub to the garden?"
It's a...
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Oct
6

TO DEADHEAD OR NOT, THAT IS THE QUESTION I was at the gardens the other day with someone who wanted to cut back all the spent coneflowers. Some stems were a bit ratty and spent, but...
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Oct
3

THREE THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU MEET YOUR LANDSCAPE DESIGNER Hiring a landscape designer is an exciting step. You are ready to bring your landscape to its full potential and you have an expert to guide...
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Sep
28

PLANTS OF NOTE- PYRACANTHA, FIRETHORN BUSH Put on your toughest gloves and long sleeves, today we are taking a closer look at Pyracantha, also known as Firethorn Bush. What do we all...
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Sep
27

NOTES FROM THE GARDENS From time-to-time we will share notes from our personal gardens such as plants we are finding to be invaluable, tips for helping the garden...
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Sep
25

THREE SIGNS IT'S TIME TO CALL THE PROFESSIONALS There comes a time in many dedicated gardeners' lives when we realize it's time to call in the professionals. We may have a wealth o...
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Sep
22

QUICK TIP- CLEANING DAYLILIES Here's a quick and easy way to keep your daylilies looking clean and healthy this fall.

Daylilies are a favorite amongst g...
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Sep
20

PLANTS OF NOTE - PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS, CHERRY LAUREL This plant of note is often called Cherry Laurel in Cincinnati, and is also referred to as English Laurel. Call it what you may, this shrub...
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Sep
18

FIVE RULES FOR MULCH Mulch is a valuable asset to the garden. When used correctly, it suppresses weeds, helps to keep the soil cool and promotes water retention....
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Sep
15

THREE THINGS TO DO NOW The ushering in of autumn does not translate to fewer landscape chores. If anything, there's more to do in the gardens. We see a sharp u...
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Sep
12

PLANTS OF NOTE: EPIMEDIUM
This ground cover has it all!

I admit I wasn't always a fan of this plant. When I saw it in the stores it was a bit more e...
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Sep
11

KEEP THAT WATER FLOWING We know it's temping to stop watering this time of year. It's been a long summer of hauling hoses, sprinklers and heavy watering can...
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Aug
23

PLANTS OF NOTE - LITTLE SPIRE RUSSIAN SAGE Russian Sage has been a garden staple for years, and for good reason. Give it sharp soil and full sun and it will perform without fail. It&#...
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Aug
23

PLANTS OF NOTE - RODGERSIA Several years back, Jennifer, our Horticulturalist, had this to say about Rodgersia in a post for Horticulture:

"My shade...
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Aug
22

DESIGNED FOR ENTERTAINING Clients come to us for design inspiration and expertise for a variety of reasons. Quite often the question at hand is- How can I make my out...
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Aug
21

THE WIMBERG FOCAL GARDEN AT AULT PARK
<p>Sometimes, a garden has served its purpose. I will admit, it's not always easy to look at a familiar old garden and say, tim...
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