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Hydrangea Plant....

I received a beautiful "blue blooms" hydrangea. It had four large perfect blooms. Because it was too cold outside I kept it in the house for about 3 weeks before moving it outdoors. During that time the blooms turned brown on the edges. What is causing that? What do I do now? I thought I cared for them appropriately as far as watering and keeping them in a good environment. Disregard the "Image upload" below. I was not able to download a photo.

Hennepin County MN 2 months ago

Black Hills Spruce sick/dying

I bought this house 7 years ago and had 5 black hills spruce in the backyard. I removed a spindly dead one yesterday but on all of them have been removing dead lower branches the last several years. There is a lot of shade--big ash to the east and south and river birch to the west. I did add several inches of mulch about 3 years ago. Anything I can do to improve likelihood of saving remainder? On the left of 7733 you can see the best of the spruce and on the right part of the 3 river birch. There is a large slope behind me from which I get a lot of rain water and behind that is where there's a large ash that shades formic of the year. 7730 shows a close up of damaged branch. Thank you for any assistance.

Hennepin County MN 3 months ago

Grotrax grass seed blanket product

Is this product, available on line and at big box stores, useful for growing grass in areas where it has been hard to grow grass? Is it too late in the year to try it? If we purchase some now would it be good to use next spring if we didn’t put it down yet this year?