My name is Patrick Colliton and my home is in Fairfax at 6528 Heather Brook Ct., McLean, VA 22101. I am back to talk to you about spring preparation for our yard and my wife’s glorious gardens. After a monstrous winter that gave us more snow than any in the last 100 years, spring preparation took on an added dimension.
Our twelve boxwoods that surround our front door and walkway took an unusually harsh beating. Besides the three feet of snow that Mother Nature provided, they were also covered with an additional two feet from the walkway as we dug ourselves out of the February Blizzard. The short version is our boxwoods were covered in snow and ice for well over a month. Besides completely losing their “box” shape, they also got infected with “talking” little critters. They sounded like the fizz in a carbonated drink as they come out of their eggs and started to eat the leaves. Fortunately neither issue was fatal, and with a good spraying and some flexible bush wire, they all seem to be bouncing back nicely.
The same could not be said for our pine tree at the corner of our sunroom. The weight of the snow virtually split the tree in half and the lower branches ended up covering one complete side of the sunroom windows. The tree itself had grown so much over the last eight years that it was now resting on our roof, which is never a good thing. After taking down the tree I was able to move three cherry laurels to the corner of the house and we ended up very pleased with the outcome.
My wife does a lot of spring planting and prefers to have our gardens mulched in mid-June. In order to appease our Real Estate agents we agreed to have a very thin (less than 1 inch) layer of mulch spread in our gardens. Still, we ended up using 18 cubic yards of mulch to cover all of the gardens on our 1.25 acre lot.
My next blog will show some spring pictures as the flowers and plants start to bloom. This is Pat Colliton signing off from his glorious home at 6528 Heather Brook, McLean, which is in Fairfax, Virginia.
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