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🌱 Improving Your Soil Healthy soil = healthy plants. It’s the foundation of gardening success. ✅ Better watering & fertilizing ✅ Stronger plants & bigger blooms ✅ Ongoing investment in your garden 🔍 Why Test Soil? Soil testing is the first step to improving your garden. A soil test will: 🧱 Identify soil type (clay, sandy, etc.) 🌿 Reveal nutrient or micronutrient deficiencies ⚖️ Pinpoint soil pH (acidic or alkaline) 📍 Soil testing available at: Oklahoma County Extension

Plant Selection Choose your tree or shrub based on your landscape needs, like flowering, evergreen, screening, hedge, shade or border. Be sure to consider the ultimate size of each plant – which tends to be different in Oklahoma than what you’ll read on a generic label. Speak with a TLC Expert for guidance in selecting the proper tree for your location. Call OKIE Call OKIE at 811 to have your utility lines marked before planting. This service is free of charge, but takes 48 h

The Facts Height: 40′ – 50’ Spread: 20′ – 30′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Slow The Wildfire Blackgum bursts to life each spring with bright red foliage followed by clusters of white blooms that provide an excellent source of nectar for pollinators and birds. These blooms give way to dark blue fruits that, while edible, are very sour and usually left to the birds. The dark green summer foliage turns to shades of scarlet

The Facts Height: 30′ – 40’’ Spread: 30′ – 35′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Wet to Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Often called ‘The Graceful Giant’, the Weeping Willow is an old favorite beloved by many. Its open crown of wispy, ground-sweeping branches and long, slender leaves are a sight to behold. The tree’s yellow twigs and green foliage appear early in the season, often used as an indicator to the beginning of spring. Yellow flowers appear on short catkins i

The Facts Height: 8′ – 10′ Spread: 5′ – 8′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Vitex is a grand beauty throughout the Oklahoma landscape. One of the more attractive qualities is its versatile use. It can be kept in a more compact form as a shrub, trained as a single trunk tree or a stately multi-trunk tree. It makes a rather stunning addition to any yard or garden bed as it features aromatic, compound, palmate, grayish-green leaves with 5-7 lanc

The Facts Height: 50′ – 60′ Spread: 50′ – 60′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Average Growth Rate: Moderate The Swamp White Oak is a regal variety. Its vast, grand and stately presence give and aire of elegance to the landscape. An old-fashioned appearance gently acknowledges memories of childhood summers sitting beneath a shade tree. This oak sports a broad, rounded crown and a short trunk. Leaves are dark, shiny green above and silvery white ben

The Facts Height: 35′ – 40′ Spread: 20′ – 25′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast A vigorous grower, the Summer Red shines with regal stature in the landscape. Outstanding burgundy red foliage emerges in spring and gives way to a dark purplish green in the summer. Its fall display is truly impressive as the older leaves turn yellow, while the younger ones become orange or purple. Its furrowed silver bark and brick red branches add an dimension to

The Facts Height: 35′ – 50′ Spread: 4′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Sweetgums have long been an American favorite. These Liquidambar styraciflua, or ‘Slender Silhouettes’, even more so for their columnar growth habit and brilliant fall color. They are deciduous and require occasional waterings once a solid root system has been established. The start-shaped foliage and columnar habit make it the perfect choice for

The Facts Height: 40′ – 60′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Dry to Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast This oak is long lived and respected in the horticulture community. Luscious green foliage lines strees and graces homes through spring and summer, giving way to the gorgeous fall color is is also loved for. Shumard oak is a medium sized, deciduous tree of the red oak group. Pyramidal in youth but spreads to a braod open crown with age. Shiny, dark