Lawn, Tree, & Shrub Health
Lawn, Tree, & Shrub Health
White clover is the most common type of clover we have in the northeast. This perennial usually flowers in late May, taking the “annoying weed” baton from dandelions, which are going to seed when we first see clover.
Crabgrass is a heat-loving weed. It grows where it’s the hottest. Curbs, walkway edges, driveway edges, and every other area where heat accumulates are where crabgrass thrives.
Dandelions flower in the spring, when conditions are just warming up (around the end of April up here). Once it goes to seed, it tends to go dormant in the summer, unless the summer is cool and rainy, in which case, it may flower again.
Spotted Spurge germinates in late spring and can grow out in mats much the same as crabgrass does. It’s most common where the lawn is the hottest: along curbs, driveways, walkways and any other place that collects heat.
Violets are the most difficult weed to control. Period. They are perennial and grow in patches. Each plant is grafted to another and takes an aggressive control strategy to minimize them.
Yellow Nutsedge emerges from a very deep root, which can send up a number of individual plants. That’s why we often see it in clusters in certain sections of lawn.