Town & Country Landscaping

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day!

05/01/2026

Selling flowers - self serve
Hanging baskets- $15.00 (ferns, ivy geranium, New Guinea impatien, mixed annual)
Plum tomatoes- $1.00
Various annuals $1-$2 per pot or pack
Money lock box to right of glass door

04/30/2026

Update: sold out of tomatoes

We have plum tomato plants for sale. Individual pots. More to come. $1.00 pc send me a message or email

04/07/2026

Freeze Warning tonight for Berks County and surrounding areas. Please bring inside or cover tender annuals, perennials, vegetables, etc.

04/04/2026

I always get questions about pruning Hydrangeas

This is the kind of hydrangea tip that can save you from cutting off all your blooms by accident. ✂️
🌿 Not every hydrangea gets pruned the same way
🌸 These are the types that bloom on new wood, so spring pruning makes sense
🪴 I still like to wait until I can clearly see where new growth is starting
A light trim usually goes a lot better than getting too happy with the pruners.

03/20/2026

Happy Spring!

🌷We did a planter refresh today at a clients home. We used cool weather annuals such as Pansies and Ranunculus along with P***y Willow stems🌷

03/09/2026

Asian lady beetle vs native ladybug

THAT'S NOT A LADYBUG.

The swarm covering your window frame right now is the Asian Lady Beetle — Harmonia axyridis. It was imported in the 1960s and 70s for agricultural pest control. It worked. Then it spread. Now it's the dominant species in most of North America, and it's actively displacing native ladybugs.

Here's how to tell them apart.

The Asian Lady Beetle has a black M-shaped marking on the white area behind its head. Native ladybugs don't. That's the fastest identification — flip it over in your mind next time you see one. White area behind the head. M or W shape. Asian.

The swarming itself is the giveaway. Native ladybugs don't cluster on buildings in spring. They overwinter under bark, in leaf litter, in natural cavities. The Asian Lady Beetle seeks heated structures — your house, specifically the south and west walls.

When disturbed, it secretes a yellow-orange fluid from its leg joints. The fluid stains fabric, stains paint, and smells acrid. It can also bite — not dangerously, but enough to startle you. Native ladybugs do none of this.

Meanwhile, your actual native ladybug — the Convergent Lady Beetle, the Seven-spotted, the Nine-spotted — is outside in your garden right now. Each one will eat 5,000 aphids this season. The Nine-spotted Ladybug hasn't been reliably documented in the northeast since the 1990s. The Asian import helped push it there.

The one on your wall is the invasive. The one you want is already in the garden.

They're not the same animal. Look for the M.

01/25/2026

❄️Unfortunately, we are not accepting any new snow customers for this storm or the season. We are at capacity for what our crews can handle.
Thank you for understanding ❄️

01/01/2026

Happy New Year!

12/25/2025