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Pollard (noun, verb) - An Ancient Technique for an Updated Tree
How and when to use pollarding as a tree pruning technique.

Neil Atzinger
Feb 25, 20233 min read
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Essential Iris Care for Better Blooms
September is the month for iris care. Atzinger Gardens crews will typically lift, clean, divide, and transplant irises for garden care...

Neil Atzinger
Aug 19, 20211 min read
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Ann Arbor's Official Unofficial Flower
Atzinger Gardens contributes gardening articles to Michigan Gardener. Read our 2020 article on year-long peony care.

Neil Atzinger
Jan 27, 20211 min read
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How to Build Winter Potting Containers
Assembling winter potting containers has been a festive way to end our gardening season. One of our head gardeners, Calla Butler,...

Neil Atzinger
Nov 28, 20203 min read
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Hot Off The Press - Boxwood Care in Early Spring
Tightly sheered boxwood hedges are excellent features in a stately garden (especially when juxtaposed against a bed of loose, flowing...

Neil Atzinger
Apr 6, 20191 min read
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Spring Arrangements in December
A step-by-step how-to on planting tulip and daffodil bulbs in containers in Michigan.

Neil Atzinger
Dec 15, 20185 min read
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Your Garden and the Cosmos
Can an artist be an entrepreneur? Our work at Fourth & Walnut needs to be both beautiful and efficient. Are these opposed? It would seem

Neil Atzinger
Jun 23, 20182 min read
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Design Principles from Augusta National
For folks in the green industry, masters golf weekend is an important benchmark. Its occurrence on the first week of April (usually) coincid

Neil Atzinger
Apr 7, 20185 min read
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Winter Damage Report
In our introduction, find out what you can do in your garden during the warm weather this week. Also learn about a new offering from Fourth

Neil Atzinger
Feb 27, 20173 min read
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