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What to Plant This Spring!
What to Plant This Season CHOOSE ONLY WHAT WILL THRIVE IN NEBRASKA'S CLIMATE Choosing plants that grow well in our area is key to creating a beautiful landscape year-round that will also be around for the long-haul. Jensen Gardens can help you choose plans that have...

Here’s Your Spring Checklist!
Maintenance Tips for a Healthy Landscape The best part about spring is being outdoors and enjoying your landscape! After harsh winter conditions, however, our landscapes need some TLC. Here's your spring maintenance checklist to make sure your landscape is ready for...

How to Know if your Trees are Healthy?
When Spring arrives, trees will start growing their leaves again and that is one indicator of your tree's health. Here are some things to look out for in your trees to be sure they are healthy or possibly need to be replaced. Iron Deficiency in Trees If you notice...

When is the Perfect Time to Prune Your Shrubs?
Winter is the perfect time to prune, when the sap is not flowing through the plant. This avoids energy loss. In winter, disease and insects don't pose a risk of infection because they are dormant as well. Often the ground is frozen and the leaves are gone so there...

Your Winter Checklist for your Landscape
Your winter checklist for your landscape: Water your evergreens once every 3 weeks - deep soak them Apply Anti Desiccant Prune deciduous Trees and Shrubs Last winter was very dry with little snow, resulting in significant winter desiccation injury to evergreen trees...

Planting Deciduous Trees and Shrubs in the Fall
The hottest plant types of 2022 (and hopefully every year to follow!) are NATIVE PLANTS. Native plants have a multitude of benefits for you, wildlife, and our local ecosystem. And because they’re naturally found in our seasonal climate, they often transform with the...

September Landscaping Tips
Summer is over and Fall is just around the corner! Here are our recommendations to start in September. 1. 🌳 September means it’s time to install tree guards to protect from deer and rabbits. Fall is the deer rut and bucks will rub on any tree they can from September...

Summer Watering Tips
There is no precise formula for watering landscape plants. A wide range of variables can influence when, how much and how to water: plant type, plant age (newly planted or not), soil type, microclimate, type of watering method used, etc. The suggestions for effective...

Small Water Features
Our current environments and lifestyles can be filled with stress and negativity. In this past year the fear of the pandemic, overwhelming news cycles, and for some working longer hours have weighed heavy on our shoulders. Finding a relaxing state of mind can be...

My Favorite Plants by Kolby Jurgens
Kolby Jergens, a landscape designer at Jensen Gardens, shares his favorite plants for the season. Ninebark Physocarpus opulifolius Large Size 6-8’ tall and wide Small Size 3-4’ tall and wide Ninebark is a plant that is used frequently currently and for good reason....