The Green Scene Blog

With the 2012 edition of the Oklahoma City Home and Garden Show coming up this weekend it is a reminder that spring is not too far off!  While the winter has been very mild and absent of any winter precipitation thus far it doesn't mean we still can't experience some significant winter weather over the next few weeks.  We often see our heaviest snowfalls in March.  Who can forget the record breaking snowfall and cold that occured in early February last year?  While ...

By and large in our industry we are tasked with managing a monoculture of non-native turf species (bermudagrass or fescue) against the forces of mother nature.  This is an immensly challenging task!  Nature, left to itself moves toward sucessive species.  In other words any weeds that appear are simply nature doing what nature does!  While I am proud of the work we do to maximize the many benifits provided by a healthy, lush lawn, I have read a couple of articles the pas...

Where has the spring gone?  At the time of this writing we have experienced daytime high temperatures approaching the upper 90's the past several days in central Oklahoma.  Needless to say it feels more like late June than early May.  To make matters worse we are sorely in need of generous amounts of rainfall before the really dry summer season is upon us.  We haven't benefitted from rains we expect and normally receive during March and April.  When you combine the ...