Proud to be Celebrating Our 50th Year!

‘Landscapes for Living’
since 1957

Fall GARDENING TIPS

Around September 30th:  Shut down irrigation clock and run manually only when needed
September 20th through October 10th:  Time to plant fall Mums
September 20th through Thanksgiving:  Time to plant Ornamental Kale and Cabbage
October 1st through Christmas: Time to plant spring bulbs.
November 15th through December 1st: Time to apply your last lawn fertilization.
November 15th through December 1st:  Time to replace spent mums with Holiday color.
November 15th through December 15th: Time to remulch perennial beds.
Thanksgiving through March 15th:  Time for winter pruning of all trees and shrubs

Our 50th Year!

Crape Myrtles — not just for the South

Looking for a small tree or shrub that blooms for over two months in late summer, has leaves which turn a beautiful fall color, and in winter displays a most handsome, peeling bark?  Then perhaps Crape Myrtle, long a mainstay of Southern gardens, is the answer.  In the last 15 years many new varieties have been bred to withstand our Long Island winters.

Tree-form varieties will mature to a height of 15 to 20 feet, while shrub-form varieties can be as small as 1 to 2 feet tall.  Flower colors range from white to lavender, soft pink to a vibrant hot pink and red.

The winter appeal of Crape Myrtle with its rich cinnamon-colored  peeling bark and graceful branch architecture

Fall Color Ideas

Fall is not just for mums anymore.  Your choices for Autumn and Winter color are far more varied than just a few years ago.  Try combining mums with new varieties of Ornamental Kale and Cabbage, Millet (a red-leafed, wheat-like flowering grass), the more compact varieties of Maiden Grass, and Algerian Ivy to really brighten up your pot and bed arrangements.

And once Thanksgiving comes, pop out the spent mums and add a mix of white Birch stems and Red-Stem Dogwood branches for height.  Use layers of evergreen boughs like Spruce and Pine as a cover for the soil.  If this winter is anything like the last three years, you’ll have color right up through New Year’s Day.

Schlick Design Group Wins Top Award

At their 2007 Landscape Awards Program, the  Long Island Nursery and Landscape Association awarded Schlick Design Group a Gold Medal for Best Landscape Project for a Public Place for our creative integration of pathways, gardens and entryways at the St. Paravskevi Churchproject in Greenlawn. The entire Schlick Design Team contributed to this success.

2007 Award Winner

Schlick Design Group
620 Pulaski Road
Greenlawn, New York 11740

Phone: 631-261-6660
Fax: 631-754-3434

Email: schlickdesign@optonline.net

2007 Our 50th Year