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Gardening Escape I do w**ding, mulching, edging, planting, some pruning of shurbs. I will take on any neglected flower beds and make them new again.

Also will mow and edge sidewalks and driveways.

06/12/2026

Due to allergies attack on my eyes, I will not be working today. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.

The flat rosette with parallel ribs in the lawn is broadleaf plantain. You've stepped on it a thousand times. It grows w...
06/02/2026

The flat rosette with parallel ribs in the lawn is broadleaf plantain. You've stepped on it a thousand times. It grows where soil is compacted — paths, lawn edges, driveway cracks — and thrives where grass fails.

The parallel veins running from base to tip are the diagnostic. No other common lawn plant has that pattern.

🌿 What it does in the yard:

- The thin flower spikes produce seeds that finches and sparrows forage on through summer and winter
- The flowers produce pollen used by native bees
- The leaves are a food source for butterfly larvae
- The roots break up compacted soil — she improves every site she colonizes

Plantain has followed humans across continents for thousands of years, appearing wherever foot traffic compacts the ground. Foragers have traditionally used the crushed leaves on minor skin irritations — though the plant earns its place in the yard through the wildlife value alone.

The w**d you've been pulling is feeding the finches, the bees, and the soil underneath it 🌿

06/01/2026

I am looking for new clients for Gardening Escape in the Saint John surrounding area. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks Trish

Those dark, shiny bands wrapped around your cherry tree twigs that look like dried sap aren't sap. They're eastern tent ...
05/31/2026

Those dark, shiny bands wrapped around your cherry tree twigs that look like dried sap aren't sap. They're eastern tent caterpillar egg masses — and they hatch when the first leaves open.

The caterpillars build communal silk tents in branch crotches and feed outward from there. On young trees, a single colony can thin the canopy noticeably. On mature trees, the damage is usually cosmetic — the tree releafs — but the webs are hard to miss.

The egg bands are laid almost exclusively on thin twigs of trees in the rose family: wild cherry, crabapple, apple, and plum. Removing them now, before budbreak, is the easiest intervention in the whole cycle.

🌿 Where to look:

- Thin, pencil-sized twigs on cherry, apple, crabapple, and plum trees — especially near the tips where new spring growth will emerge
- Look for a dark brown or black band wrapped completely around the twig — smooth, shiny, and roughly the width of a fingertip
- Check wild cherry trees at the edge of your property — these are the most common host, and colonies spread from there to ornamentals

🌱 How to remove them:

- Use pruning shears to snip the twig a few inches below the band — the egg mass is cemented on and won't scrape off easily
- Drop the clippings into a bucket of soapy water or seal them in a bag for a few days before discarding
- Check the same trees again in a week — you'll often spot bands you missed on the first pass once your eye is trained

- If tents have already formed in branch crotches by the time you find them, remove the webbing early in the morning when the caterpillars are clustered inside. A stick or gloved hand works — no chemicals needed

One snip per twig. A few minutes per tree. The easiest pest removal of the spring 🌿

Most gardeners destroy this powerful wild spring plant without realizing how surprisingly useful it truly is The plant s...
05/30/2026

Most gardeners destroy this powerful wild spring plant without realizing how surprisingly useful it truly is The plant shown in the image is Purple Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum), also known as Red Deadnettle or Purple Archangel. Despite its name, it is a member of the mint family (Lamiaceae) and does not sting like true stinging nettles.

After pictures of my client house. Edging, w**ding, trimmed and couple of shurbs along the side of the house then mulchi...
05/30/2026

After pictures of my client house. Edging, w**ding, trimmed and couple of shurbs along the side of the house then mulching the gardens and clean up afterwards

Some of these I didn't know about. So that's cool. How many did you know of?
05/06/2026

Some of these I didn't know about. So that's cool. How many did you know of?

Here are some mulch options. If you are thinking about sprucing up your gardens which are more beneficial than others.
05/01/2026

Here are some mulch options. If you are thinking about sprucing up your gardens which are more beneficial than others.

03/18/2026

3 years old pink princess Philodendron. When I got this plant it was a healthy 4 inch plant that looked like a brush than a vine not that I was complaining. Then it started to die off and quickly. I took some clippings just incase I lost the plant change the soil gave it vitamins then it was vining but no leaves wrapped the vine into the pot and hoped for the best. Keep with my regular routine vine was getting longer still no leaves but the wrapped vine that I pushed into the soil was rooted. So I trimmed the longer vine to make more clippings and out of 15 I might have 6 of those Make new plants. And now I have this very showy pink vine. I am not sure if you can see how pink it is but it stunning

03/18/2026

This Jade pothos started as a clipping of one leaf 8 years of set backs and top overs. Is now looking better than ever. Yes that is a old watering pitcher that I thought it would look great with a vine growing out of it. Some of the older leaves are showing signs that they need to be removed but not yet. I just took clippings from this plant and now rooting to make new plants.
Here is a video of my 8 year old plant

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