TLC for your Winter Garden (or how not to kill your plants during the Polar Vortex) With Old Man Winter bearing down upon us, now is a good time to take some important steps to protect your plants from the cold wind and snow. A...
Read MoreA Holiday Nursery Rhyme On a great big farm there was an evergreen and a red roof and a picture of a man standing on a rootball. And there were three green clad folks pruning some oaks And two little cats who chased all the...
Read MoreGood Night Nursery A Holiday Nursery Rhyme On a great big farm there was an evergreen and a red roof and a picture of a man standing on a rootball. And there were three green clad folks pruning some oaks And two little cats who...
Read MoreTree experts and utility companies suggest that people plant trees with a mature height of 25 feet or less near power lines, with taller trees kept farther away. Though taller trees are sometimes acceptable near power lines, they usually need drastic pruning to keep lines...
Read MoreShifting Gears Jack London once said, “Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?” Looking back at the year that was, it is easy to feel this way. Projects planned and yet somehow not completed, sales...
Read MoreOne of the most frequently asked questions at Ruppert Nurseries is, “How often do you root prune?” This is a tricky question and one for which I wish there were a more clear cut (No pun intended!) answer. First; let’s dispel a myth. Ready? Ok,...
Read MoreThere are few things Landscape Architects (LAs) can do for a project that make more of an impact than planting quality trees. With that said, many times the way the planting turns out is very different than what was envisioned. So here are a few...
Read MoreNearly everyone I know has wished at some point in the lives that they could be invisible. Children dream of this as their superhero power. Imagine what you could get away with if no one saw you take the cookie from the jar, write on...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Damascus, MD. August 20, 2014 – Ruppert Nurseries, a wholesale nursery that is dedicated to producing the highest quality plant material has promoted Ronda Roemmelt to the company’s Sales Manager. Ronda rejoined the Ruppert family in December of 2012 as the sales...
Read MoreWe have all heard that some trees cannot be dug in the fall right? So which trees and why not? Seems like everyone has a different opinion. Yet there seems to be very little actual research and or concrete data. Here at Ruppert Nurseries we...
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