PRUNING TIPS AND RULES OF THUMB
– Dead, broken, or diseased plant material can be pruned at any time of the year.
– Dead, broken, or diseased plant material can be pruned at any time of the year.
STUDENT UNION BALLROOM (ROOM 330) 2100 Hillside Road, Storrs, CT 06269 October 3, 2019
Join us for the second biannual UConn Native Plants & Pollinators Conference! Come for an exciting day of presentations featuring current science-based research and information on supporting pollinators in managed landscapes. This program is designed for growers and other green industry professionals, landscape service providers, landscape architects and designers, town commissions, municipalities, schools, and homeowners. Learn how to utilize native plants to provide the greatest value for pollinators throughout the year!
Download the agenda: NPPC2 Agenda (1)
Register online at s.uconn.edu/pollinators2019.
• Register online or visit the UConn IPM website (www.ipm.uconn.edu)
Early registration $50.00, by Friday August 30, 2019 • $60.00 after August 30, 2019
• Students $25.00 with valid school ID
The registration fee includes: Admission to sessions Lunch & Parking
Parking is available in the North Parking Garage (103 North Eagleville Road) and South Parking Garage (2366 Jim Calhoun Way). Please bring your parking garage ticket with you to check-in for validation. See Link to UConn Storrs Campus map.
Questions about registration? Contact: Alyssa Siegel-Miles, alyssa.siegel-miles@uconn.edu or call at 860-885-2821.
Pesticide Recertification credits: PA, 1A, 3A, 3B, 3D, 6, 10/5
UConn is an equal opportunity employer and program provider.
In three short decades, volcano mulch has become one of the greatest threats to newly planted and young trees and shrubs. If unchecked, the significant monetary and human investment in greenscapes will result in more and more dead and dying trees.
Volcano mulch is the over-mulching of plant material, notably trees and shrubs. Mulch plays an important role in protecting plant material from irreversible lawnmower and weed whacker damage as well as providing for some control over weed competition and soil water retention. Seemingly, rings of mulch have also become landscape design features.
While deadly, the problem is simple; people are placing heaps and heaps of mulch around trees and shrubs and right next to the thin, vulnerable bark. The fact is you do not need more than 2-3 inches of mulch in depth for the desired purposes. Mulch should not come closer than 2-3 inches from the plant. Yet people are piling mulch 6 inches or more, and right on the trunks of the trees, causing damage to life sustaining cambium (the live tissue just below the bark). Beware of volcano mulch in your yard.
Article by Robert Ricard, Ph.D.