Mulkern Landscaping & Nursery

Summer is almost here and so is the time to enjoy your outdoor spaces. One thing that we often recommend to our clients is lighting! From uplighting to highlight your prominent plants to real fire, give us a call to talk about options for your backyard!

What trees are you planting near your home?

Important information for us in Hawaii also.

Don't get "bamboozled" when you hunt for the perfect landscape addition. Make sure to check whether you're looking at varieties that are clumping vs. running. The latter does not need tennis shoes, but may make landscape maintenance more difficult. #protips

A story... There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year? the reporter asked. Why sir, said the farmer..., Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn. So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all... https://blogs.oregonstate.edu//18/there-once-was-a-farmer/.