Caring for Your Landscape

Caring for Your Landscape: You’ve made good choices for your landscape with the assistance of Finke Gardens, so now it is time to provide the best care for their growing success. Sustainable landscapes start with healthy soils, careful watering, correct pruning and recognizing pests and problems.

Spring Garden Clean Up

In anticipation of spring, here is a list of helpful tips for getting your garden ready for the upcoming growing season…

Pruning Roses

Pruning roses helps make them more productive and less prone to diseases and insects. Spring is the time to prune most roses…

Growing Perennial & Annual Flowers

Get tips on soil amendment, planting, mulching, fertilizing, watering and maintaining your perennials and annuals in this information guide.

Watering Guide

When mother nature turns the heat on and the rainfall off, our attention turns to watering. Learn how to keep plants alive & thriving during a summer heat wave.

Planting Trees and Shrubs

Learn the basics of planting, mulching, fertilizing, staking, watering and pruning both containerized and balled and burlap trees and shrubs.

Container Flower Gardening

Great pictures to inspire your annual containers this season along with an information guide to help you grow healthy and happy flowers in containers.

Urban Soils

Eastern Nebraska is known for its nutrient-rich soils that once supported acres prairie grasses. The picture with soils in urban areas is quite different.