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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.

Preparing your landscape for spring

Rich Finke gives timely information on spring pruning of two different kinds of Hydrangea.

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…

Cutting back ornamental grasses

Rich shared ideas with Taryn Vanderford on how to start cleaning up landscape beds…

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.

Plants Not Favored By Deer

There are few things more frustrating for gardeners than having deer feed on cherished plants. Learn which plants are generally not favored by deer.

Kentucky Bluegrass Management Calendar

The NebGuide Kentucky Bluegrass Management Calendar is a basic guide to Kentucky bluegrass management in Nebraska and much of the Great Plains.

Pruning Trees and Shrubs

One of the tasks that all gardeners must face is pruning trees and shrubs. This guide will help you keep your landscape looking great all year long.

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Landscape Design

  • Better Together
  • Landscaping For Wildlife
  • Designing a Rain Garden

Landscape Care

  • Preparing your landscape for spring
  • Spring Garden Clean Up
  • Pruning Roses
  • Cutting back ornamental grasses

Landscape Plants

  • Sunken Gardens – Beginnings
  • Early Bloomers
  • Nebraska Natives and Their Cultivars
  • Native Grasses
  • Native Wildflowers
  • Ash Alternatives

Office Hours

  • Monday - Friday
  • 9am - 3pm

Finke Gardens & Nursery

500 N. 66th Street

Lincoln, NE 68505-2406

(402) 466-1995