Horticulture Fact Sheets

Environment and Gardening

• Alternative Ice Melters
• Composting
• Conserve Water with Xeriscape Landscaping
• Energy-Saving Landscaping
• Grasscycling
• Green Roofs
• Landscaping - Low Maintenance
• Landscaping - Plants for Shady Areas
• Landscaping - Plants for Wet Areas
• Local Sources for Organic Materials
• Mulches
• Pest Management
• Rain Barrels
• Rain Garden, Installing a
• Vermicomposting
• Water-wise Gardening

Flowers and Grasses

• Butterfly Garden
• Ornamental Grasses
• Perennials for Rockland
• Rose Care

Houseplants

• House Plant - Environmental Problems
• House Plant - Pest Management
• Poisonous Household Plants

Indoor Pests

• Ants in Houses
• Bed Bugs (for more resources, check out our webpage on Bed Bugs)
• Carpenter Ants
• Carpenter Bees
• Carpet Beetles
• Choosing a Pest Management Service
• Indian Meal Moth
• Insects & Firewood
• Landscape Insects -Indoor
• Social Wasps, Hornets and Yellow Jackets
• Stink Bug
• Termites
• Termites, Inspecting for

Lawns and Ground Cover

• Ground Covers
• Growing Turf Under Shaded Conditions
• Lawn Care
• Lawn Care without Pesticides
• Soil pH, Correcting

Trees and Shrubs

• Emerald Ash Borer
• Hydrangeas
• Insects & Firewood
• Landscaping - Spacing Plants
• Maple Decline
• Pests of Broad-leaved Evergreens
• Surfacing Tree Roots
• Trees & Shrubs - Fertilizing
• Trees & Shrubs - Planting
• Trees & Shrubs - Pruning</li>
• Trees & Shrubs - Storm Damage
• Trees & Shrubs - Transplanting
• Trees & Shrubs - >Winter Protection

Vegetable Gardening

• Container Gardening-Outdoors
• Grow-Light Stand Plans
• Starting Garden Seeds Indoors
• Vegetable Garden,Beginning a
• Vegetable Gardening-Fall
• Vegetable Planting Guide
• Vegetables - Disease Management
• Vegetables - Insect Management

Wildlife

• Chipmunks
• Deer
• Is there a Mouse in Your House?
• Snakes in Rockland
• Woodchucks
• Woodpeckers

Last updated April 5, 2024