Dan`s Travels Rocky Pastures Damminix Tick Tubes® Grubs Happy
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Dan`s Travels Rocky Pastures Damminix Tick Tubes® Grubs Happy
Dan’s Travels Rocky Pastures Dan and Melissa returned from the U.S. and British Virgin Islands in early April just in time to start up the 2012 summer season! Dan is bringing his expertise and very green thumb to the Kenneth Roberts Estate, Rocky Pastures, for the Kennebunkport Historical Society’s Designer Show House! He has teamed up with interior designer Paula Robinson Rossouw on designing the living room and terrace as a tribute to Kenneth Roberts’s life, interests and keen sense of humor. While in St. John, Dan and Melissa spent time with friends enjoying lots of water activities, exploring different islands, hiking and relaxing before the start of their busy season. Many projects soon came with the customary opening of houses and cottages. Putting docks and ramps in, getting tree, shrub and perennial beds in shape and planting lots of window boxes and planters were all accomplished before June 1. Dan will not be traveling too much this summer as it is a great time to be working with his crew and enjoying time here in the great state of Maine with family and friends. Grubs This has been quite the season for white grubs. White grubs are the larvae of scarab beetles and eat grass roots. Dan received a call from a client that had a major area of her lawn destroyed in the course of one evening. It turned out that raccoons came out at night and dug out the grass to retrieve the grubs. Grubs live and feed in the soil, eventually killing the lawn leaving it as brown patches. Beetles lay thousands of eggs in the lawn and newly hatched worms will work their way through the thatch and into the soil. If the grass isn’t killed by the grubs eating the turf roots, skunks or raccoons will do lots of damage looking for dinner and you will have to reseed. Most beetles lay their eggs in late summer and the young grubs do their greatest damage in the fall. As the weather gets cooler, the grubs burrow deeper into the soil for the winter months. In the springtime, they return to the surface to feed in the warm soil. After the spring feeding, grubs turn into adult beetles and the vicious cycle starts again. Call Dan for an organic approach to eliminate white grubs today! Rocky Pastures is a sprawling stone house that was built for the famous author in 1938 by the architect Frazier Forman Peters of Westport, Conn. Rocky Pastures is a 6,000-square-foot house with 12 rooms that was recently updated, combining old world charm with modern conveniences. It was here that Kenneth Roberts penned his popular novels of historical fiction that earned him a 1957 Pulitzer Prize in the Special Awards and Citations category. To represent the famous author’s love of nature and dowsing, the living room has been transformed into a garden room! Plants, trees and lichen-covered stone from the estate form the backdrop to period furnishings that echo the layout of the living room during Kenneth Roberts’s lifetime. Come see the specially designed indoor rockery, the eye-catching pergola on the terrace and all the beautiful plants and trees handpicked by Dan! The estate is located off Ocean Avenue across from Sandpiper Lane. The Designer Show House is open daily beginning June 23 and running until July 14. For tickets, call (207) 967-2751 or visit www.designershowhouse.org. Pictured below left is Leon setting one of the first huge posts for the pergola on the terrace. Pictured below right is John and Leon with Dan’s fountain. Damminix Tick Tubes® Take back the outdoors and enjoy your yard this summer - tick-free! Ticks are a horrible insect, which can carry Lyme disease. The key to protecting yourself against Lyme disease is to eliminate ticks. If you would like an intelligent tick control solution that lets you, your children and pets safely enjoy the outdoors, start with Damminix Tick Tubes®. Tick Tubes are biodegradable, cardboard tubes filled with permethrin treated cotton. Mice collect the cotton to build their nests, and the deer ticks that feed on mice in the springtime are exposed to permethrin and die. Did you know ticks get Lyme disease from mice, not deer? The deer only acts as a carrier to the ticks and that’s how they get on you and your pets. Dan has Tick Tubes in stock and can strategically place them on your property! Don’t wait; ward off those ticks today. Happy Birthday! On April 23, 2012, Dan celebrated his father Tony’s and aunt Rinda’s 76th birthday! A wonderful evening was spent at Pier 77 with family - and they are looking forward to many more years ahead! Annual Plantings Let Dan and his crew plant you a beautiful floral display in your garden, window boxes or planters! Let’s face it perennials are great, but only last a few weeks. Dan strongly recommends interplanting a collection of annuals in your garden. Annuals, although only live for one growing season, are versatile, colorful and produce quick results all season long. Dan has a huge amount of annuals to choose from depending on your preference, and he can certainly accommodate with the right planning. Dan can design an incredible show of color that can be enjoyed all summer long. Don’t forget to plant bulbs! Commonly planted in the fall, bulbs are always a welcoming sight after a long, cold, gray winter. Dan’s favorites include crocuses, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and scillas. The Atlantic Hall To Sum It Up It has been a tremendous spring! Again, a special thank you to my incredible crew and amazing wife, Melissa. We all work through the hot and dry days, and the days filled with fog, rain and drizzle. My crews worked diligently through the unsettled weather leading up to Memorial Day. I received many phone calls, emails and personal “thank yous” for all our hard work for getting projects completed on time or ahead of schedule. My sister Amy and my niece, baby Kiera, visited at the end of May, and Kiera enjoyed her first pancake breakfast at Atlantic Hall followed by the Memorial Day Parade in Kennebunkport. LANDSCAPING & Property Management 2012 Summer Company Newsletter Spruce and Kaysea - our two Golden Retrievers are doing well. Kaysea is a real love bug and often enjoys napping with Spruce. Dan was asked to set up a display at the People’s United Bank for the month of May promoting their business partners, Business Customer Spotlight. Thank you, People’s! Designing, Building & Caring for Kennebunkport's Finest Landscapes & Gardens After having volunteered on the Board, Dan was recently elected as president of the Atlantic Hall. Atlantic Hall, the heart of Cape Porpoise, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is a community-owned building intended to be a center for both community and private gatherings. For more information, check out the website: www.atlantichall.org. If you’d like a personal tour of the Atlantic Hall, let Dan know. Dan Viehmann 207-967-3619 www.dvlandscaping.com Newsletter concept & design by Dan Viehmann Newsletter construction, input & production by Magen Petit Newsletter cover photo by Robert Grant