Also, we suffered a lot of free damage this winter in the southeast. After pulling back the mulch on our plants we have applied a top dressing of black kow manure/compost. It seems to be helping get things back on track.
https://www.youtube.com/user/pauljamesgardenerguy Interesting landscape videos from Paul James/Gardening by the Yard. It is an old show from HGTV but still better than all those "Fix it up in a day" yard shows they have now. Those don't teach you much, just aesthetics - no real hardcore info like old Paul use to. Wish he would come back on tv.
Another garden ping!
No experience with the Akebono, but if it sets fruit, don’t plant it anywhere along the path to your door. We have an ornamental pin cherry that drops thousands of small black fruit on the driveway, walk, and porch.
Then people track in the cherries and stain the carpet, no matter how much I remind them, or sweep the walk, porch and drive.
We used to watch Paul James all the time but since he left TV awhile back I totally forgot about him. He looks like he has lost some weight.