CANTON, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES, November 9, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Tumble is a time of transition for quite a few property owners. The leaves are switching shades, the days are having shorter, and some plants have currently began to die off. It’s critical that homeowners really don’t just permit their lawn flip into an unattractive mess in the course of the drop period. There are however some matters that can be completed to get the garden wanting great again.
Abide by these 6 uncomplicated landscaping tips to prepare the residence for wintertime!
1. Start By Removing Leaves From the Property
This is a excellent put to start out if owners want an simple and swift way of obtaining rid of some fallen foliage when also raking up all the dry, useless grass still left powering in your garden. They can use leaf blowers to make this course of action even less complicated. Taking away leaves from your yard will help strengthen its all round seem and retain it nutritious.
2. Get Out Any Vegetation That Are Commencing to Die
It’s critical to consider out any crops that are beginning to die in advance of they unfold disease, rot the soil all over them, or fall about on to neighboring plants. This will help home owners keep away from taking away overall patches of shrubbery in their garden just simply because a person plant has absent negative.
3. Add Mulch About Trees for Insulation and H2o Retention
Including a layer of mulch all around trees and shrubs will assist them keep their dampness through the winter months. Mulching also provides insulation, which can be specifically helpful for more mature vegetation that are much more susceptible to dropping leaves early in the drop time or losing their flowers immediately right after first frost hits.
4. Get Rid of Weeds with a Weedwhacker or Hoe
Weed whackers and hoes are beneficial resources for owners who want to get rid of weeds with out employing a professional landscaping organization. These modest, manual products can be pretty value-efficient solutions for these seeking to continue to keep their property clean throughout the fall year.
5. Minimize Back again Perennials, Like Roses, That Have Started off to Die Off
Property owners who have a great deal of perennials, like roses or ferns, need to lower them back again if they are dead. It is critical to do this just before the first frost hits in buy to steer clear of spreading sickness by way of their roots process and killing off other crops that are continue to alive.
6. Prune Fruit Trees
Pruning fruit trees all through the fall is an significant move in trying to keep them healthier all through the winter season. It is also good to prune these trees just after they’ve been strike by their to start with frost, which will aid reduce sickness from spreading by their roots system and killing off other plants that are nonetheless alive.
Just after owners are done cleansing up their yard, they can help it continue to be healthier through the wintertime months by watering their vegetation frequently. It is also handy to hold an eye on them in case any pests, like mice or squirrels, consider to steal meals from beneath them prior to winter season hits. The winter months can be a difficult time for landscaping, but pursuing these tips will support owners get their lawn prepared in advance of the snow starts piling up!
Curved mattress and properly sized shrubs make a good landscape.
Neil Sperry
Special to the Star-Telegram
Sitting in the host’s seat of a few Q&A gardening converse displays for nearly 45 years, I’ve taken a lot of issues relating to shrubs.
They kind into groups, and proper alternative of the very best shrubs for a variety of needs is just one of the most significant. I see several errors that continue to keep popping up, and I considered this may be a very good time to share them so that you could aspect them in as you plan your wintertime and spring landscaping advancements.
Fallacies in shrub variety
Below are issues I see gardeners generating as they opt for shrubs for their landscapes.
Failure to check experienced peak, width. Your aim need to be to obtain plants that mature to the dimension you want and then keep there with minimal normal pruning. If you have to have a shrub to fill a area that’s 3 feet high, it would make no feeling to set an 8-foot plant in that spot, then prune it repeatedly to keep it in bounds. That is how we close up with topped crape myrtles that are banging into the eaves or redtip photinias that are blocking all the windows on their sides of the home.
Above-anxiety the importance of flowering. The explanation I’m pointing this out is mainly because most flowering shrubs are in bloom two or 3 months out of the yr. Most styles are considerably less than beautiful the rest of the yr. For that issue, most of our showiest flowering shrubs are deciduous, which usually means they have no leaves for four or 5 months every single winter. They show up better when viewed from afar, preferably against a darkish and simple background.
Fall short to take into account each type’s texture and advancement sort and their impact on the overall landscape. This is refined, like the textures of materials, but it is just as important. Leaf measurement, condition and surface all enter the image. Lesser leaves with easy surfaces typically existing finer textures for a more comforting glimpse to their components of the back garden. Rounded and arching progress types do the very same. Vase-shaped and upright shrubs are much far more spectacular, so their use have to be substantially more diligently prepared.
In excess of-use of very variegated shrubs. We utilised to see this with Goldspot euonymus. Now we’re observing it with Sunshine ligustrum. These crops draw awareness absent from the dwelling just like a luminescent yellow photo body would call awareness to by itself in its place of to the image it’s bordering. We have to demonstrate restraint.
Obtain for lengthy rows, formerly recognized as “foundation plantings.” Friends, which is a expression that arrived about 100 many years back when houses had been developed atop blocks with crawl spaces to permit accessibility to utilities beneath the floors. We utilised these linear, ordinarily trimmed plantings to conceal the undercarriages of our dwellings.
Considering that World War II, even so, our houses have been constructed on concrete slabs that deliver items down closer to the floor. We do not have ugly foundations that have to be hidden. It is significantly better to plant shrubs in clusters and groupings – in curved sweeps that glance extra normal.
Fall short to inquire if the shrub has any severe, even fatal flaws. Redtip photinias have Entomosporium fungal leaf location. Now Indian hawthorns are dying from it, much too. Wax myrtles never like our alkaline soils and minimal humidity. Loropetalums run out of steam following five or 10 many years. The unconventional new arborvitae and cypresses are persuasive, but they give it up just after a handful of a long time. And so, the list grows– built up of crops that just won’t maintain up for quite long listed here. Allow your nursery expert personal in your determination. As if each individual plant that you’re acquiring is correctly suited to our soils and our climate.
Really do not consider how well the shrub will search when blended with other shrubs together with it. Interior decorators and coaches in crew sports activities have taught us this. It’s not so considerably about how significantly we like specific parts or gamers. It is about how properly they incorporate in their surroundings to full the entire photograph.
Check out to use too several distinctive sorts of shrubs in our landscapes. Profitable landscapers inform us that the most interesting residence gardens on normal-sized lots generally really do not have far more than 7 or eight species.
Really don’t do ample mattress preparing and planning prior to planting. Beds finish up remaining inadequately sized or inappropriately formed. Soil has not been improved by the addition of organic make a difference. That’s especially critical with little shrubs and groundcovers, also with specialty shrubs that involve acidic soils. That list contains azaleas, loropetalums and gardenias, amid a lot of some others.
Shrub beds have to have to be sized in proportion with their environment. Two-tale houses have to have beds that increase out 6 to 10 or 12 toes from the home. A single-tale properties can have beds 5 to 8 or 10 ft huge. Lay them out in long, light curves for a much more normal search.
I use a supple garden hose on a sunny, heat day to configure my beds. I spray with a glyphosate-only herbicide though the weeds and grasses are environmentally friendly and escalating to remove all current vegetation. Glyphosates are not energetic in the soil, so they do not leave residue to problems the shrubs when you plant them. But the spraying ought to be carried out in advance of the initial frost turns grasses brown.
You can hear Neil Sperry on KLIF 570AM on Saturday afternoons 1-3 pm and on WBAP 820AM Sunday mornings 8-10 am. Be a part of him at www.neilsperry.com and stick to him on Fb.
This story was initially published November 5, 2021 5:30 AM.
Associated tales from Fort Truly worth Star-Telegram
The McNay Art Museum will be celebrating something big on Sunday: the very first major renovation of the museum’s grounds in its 67-year history.
The $6.25 million makeover, which took nearly two years to complete, transformed the grounds from an enclosed campus hidden behind wrought-iron fences and dense hedges into a park-like expanse designed to be more welcoming.
The project has been in the works for a long time.
In 2005, board chairman Tom Frost hosted a series of focus groups, asking people from all over San Antonio what they thought of the museum. It was eye-opening for Frost, who served on the board from 1971 until his death in 2018.
“The feedback that resonated with him was that the museum was hidden behind the hedges, and that gave it a feel of exclusivity,” said Don Frost, Tom Frost’s son, who is the current board president. “And that wasn’t what Dad wanted.”
Tom Frost worked with museum staff, his fellow board members and the museum’s directors — first with Bill Chiego, who retired in 2016, and then with his successor, Rich Aste — to come up with a landscape master plan that would convey a sense of welcome.
It was designed to open up the grounds, making it clear that the McNay is open to one and all.
What: A family day to celebrate the renovation of the McNay grounds, including a ribbon cutting for the grounds, lawn games and a community mural project.
When: 1-4 p.m. Sunday
Where: McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels.
Admission: Free, but registration is encouraged at mcnayart.org.
Spots long popular with shutterbugs seeking picturesque settings — such as the fountain designed by O’Neil Ford and the Asian-inspired garden nearby — were left untouched. There also are several new selfie-friendly outdoor artworks in place across the grounds.
Work on the renovation started in September 2019 and wrapped up in August. A ribbon-cutting Sunday will celebrate its completion, followed by the first in-person family day since the start of the pandemic.
“We want the McNay to be everybody’s backyard, so then there’s this sense of belonging, and I do believe that the landscape master plan does that,” said Don Frost, who led the fundraising campaign for the project. “It definitely enhances the McNay’s outdoor experience.”
It also aligns with the drive to make the museum’s exhibitions and collections more inclusive, he said.
“What the McNay is doing is being San Antonio’s place of belonging,” he said. “I’m so happy about Rich Aste’s ability to move fast on that, and he’s doing it beyond the landscape. He’s done it in our exhibits, he’s done it in our art acquisitions.”
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Back to the beginning
Artist Tony Tasset’s sculpture “Deer” looms large on the grounds of the McNay Art Museum. It is one of four outdoor artworks installed while the grounds were being renovated.
Kin Man Hui /Staff photographer
The McNay has a long history. It once was the home of Marion Koogler McNay, an artist and collector. She and her husband built the Spanish-Mediterranean-style villa in 1927 on what was then a goat farm. McNay, who died in 1950, left the house and the grounds to the city of San Antonio to establish a museum. Her desire was realized in 1954, when the McNay opened as the first modern art museum in the state.
“In a way, we’re going back to Mrs. McNay’s origins,” Aste said. “When she moved here, it was very open at the time. The hedges and the stone gates came in later as the city grew around us. But when she invested in this property with her third husband, we were in the country.
“In subsequent decades, they created the hedges and stone gates to foster a sense of oasis and peace, and that was very successful. In later years, from the outside, it wasn’t clear that we were an all-embracing, all-inclusive arts organization waiting for you on the inside.”
The wrought iron fencing is no more. It has been replaced by “invisible” fencing, vertical stainless steel posts embedded in a concrete beam all around the campus. Passers-by can see through the posts, getting a look at an inviting, 25-acre expanse laced with ADA-accessible pathways, native plants and works of art.
They also can see the museum from the street. It had been hidden behind hedges before, visible only gradually as visitors made their way through the grounds. That was intentional, said John Gutzler, principal with Ford Powell Carson, the architecture firm that worked on the project.
New walkways have been added to the grounds of the McNay Art Museum as part of a makeover designed to make the campus more park-like and welcoming.
Kin Man Hui /Staff photographer
“Architecturally, back in the day, they wanted to create a sense of mystery,” he said. “So as you started out, you got a glimpse of the building. We’re a little more impatient today.”
The hedges are gone now, and the remaining greenery has gotten a 21st century upgrade. A total of 142 new trees and 7,892 shrubs were planted. The sustainable, drought-resistant plants include bald cypress trees, yucca, Mexican feather grass and sage, courtesy of Austin urban landscape architect dwg.
A beautification fund was established to make sure the plants are well-tended.
The winter storm in February did some damage. The grounds crew took every preventive measure they could in advance, including covering some plants. When everything thawed out, the death toll was about 10 percent, said Luis Barthel, head of operations for the museum.
It could have been much worse, he noted.
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“We did really well in surviving that and not having to start from scratch,” Barthel said. “That’s the thoughtfulness behind using native plants and making sure that everything we’re doing is sustainable.”
Art out in the open
Students on a tour walk past artist Tom Wesselmann’s “Standing Tulip” near the entrance to the McNay Art Museum.
Kin Man Hui /Staff photographer
The grounds are dotted with sculptures, some of which now are visible from the sidewalk and the street. That includes “Ascent,” a monumental abstract sculpture by Alexander Liberman. It has a prominent spot in the Mays Family Park, the newest section of the grounds.
The Liberman stands on a spot that once was a small tract of land located across a turning lane off of Austin Highway.
“By taking the big Liberman, a major, big sculpture, out on the corner, it becomes a fulcrum for that intersection,” Gutzler said. “So it does exactly what we want people to do at a museum — when you embrace a sculpture, you look at it from multiple angles. Instead of getting out of your car, you can actually stay in your car, different times of the day, at night, and see it from different angles.”
The museum purchased the parcel that became the Mays Family Park in 2004, and after that, the board began discussions about whether it should be left alone or incorporated into the campus. That led Tom Frost to start meeting with focus groups, laying the foundation for the makeover of the grounds.
“It took our campus from 23 acres to 25 acres,” Aste said. “And we could have stopped there, but at that point, the leadership said, ‘This is an opportunity to open up the McNay to everyone.’”
Both entrances to the museum have been widened and beautified, and the lighting and signage have been improved as well.
Safety concerns have been addressed, too.
The late Marion Koogler McNay’s home remains a focal point for the grounds of the McNay Art Museum.
Kin Man Hui /Staff photographer
“We wanted to separate the traffic, the vehicular traffic, from the pedestrians, because we never had that before,” Gutzler said. “We always had people walking on the little road, and it was always kind of dangerous. (With the renovations) it becomes crystal clear where the defining areas are for the cars, where they need to stop, where they need to continue.”
Thank-yous are embedded in both entries. The road leading from North New Braunfels has been named Tom Frost Way in honor of the former board chair. And the entrance off Austin Highway has been named the Russell Hill Rogers Sculpture Gateway, a nod to the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts. The longtime supporter has funded the purchase of 22 of the 29 outdoor sculptures in the McNay’s collection, Aste said.
“They single-handedly got us to become an outdoor art museum experience in 1997 when they began that relationship with us,” Aste said. “So we wanted to recognize their commitment to the McNay.”
Visitors who haven’t been to the museum in a while may notice some additions to the outdoor art collection. Four new acquisitions were installed while the grounds were being worked on: “The Sole Sitter” by Willie Cole, “Standing Tulip” by Tom Wesselmann, “Hashtag-Orange” by Alejandro Martín and “Deer” by Tony Tasset.
Two more sculptures will be added to the Mays Family Park in the next year or so, Aste said.
And the work on the grounds continues, too. The physical makeover is Phase I.
“The next chapter is activating those 17 acres on our campus that don’t have buildings on them, whether it’s more outdoor sculpture galleries or event spaces and rental opportunities, opportunities for the visual and performing arts, because we do both here at the McNay,” Aste said. “There is so much potential and opportunity. So stay tuned.”
Early November often features temperature that entices me to commit some time outdoors. It is real the outside chores are much more manageable when the humidity is lower and temperatures moderate, but never invest all your time performing.
Weeds are just one of the number of things in everyday living that give you a 2nd chance. If you really don’t get all of the weeds now, it will arrive again for one more prospect to get rid of it.
Whilst spending some time in your landscape or back garden, just take a couple of pictures, sketch an location that needs advancement, and consider regions that may well advantage from a couple new plant installations.
Creating an outdoor house for family members gatherings, personal discussions or a peaceful put to settle for some studying or contemplation is 1 of the joys a garden can provide.
When selecting plants for your garden or landscape, take into account the plant’s advancement characteristic and the final use of the spot. A place exterior for accumulating will advantage from visual screening and audio dampening, and various bamboo species will fill these desires.
Tropical bamboos are superior decisions for Treasure Coast landscapes. Most increase and enhance from rhizomes — underground lateral stems — very slowly but surely into a size-limited clump. They are not aggressive spreaders, as opposed to the more familiar temperate bamboos. The most significant limitation to making use of tropical bamboo is temperature most will not tolerate freezing weather conditions.
Bamboo, even tropical species, are not the ideal vegetation. Most species favor frequent purposes of water even immediately after establishment. They also like effectively-drained soil, whole sun however some will tolerate partial shade, standard purposes of a balanced sluggish-release fertilizer are useful.
Most folks obtain the primary fault with bamboo is a tendency to be messy as they drop leaves. I like the gentle carpet of pure mulch that forms in and about a clump of bamboo some do not.
Malay dwarf bamboo, Bambusa glaucophylla, is an desirable plant option for screening and hedges. It is an evergreen, perennial bamboo, a monocot and a grass.
The leaves are easy, linear, 5- to 7-inches-lengthy, and variegated eco-friendly and white. The leaves are connected about the culms — a term applied to explain a grass stem — in teams, whorled. This is a leafy bamboo.
This species types neat teams of upright stems included with white-striped leaves. It is sensitive to challenging freezes but will choose a few levels of frost. Canes that prime out concerning 6- and 15-ft-tall have a non-intense expansion habit that make this bamboo an exceptional choice for urban and place-confined landscapes.
Acquire a number of minutes before the craziness of the conclusion of the yr activities start out to acquire stock of the backyard and even plant a little bit of bamboo. Love the silent of the backyard and the beautiful place you’ve got established for spouse and children and mates.
Carol Cloud Bailey is a landscape counselor and horticulturist. Send out questions to carol@garden-doc.com or visit www.yard-doc.com for more information.
Debra Isham of President Lane has been identified as November 2021 Choice of the Thirty day period by The Back garden Club at Palm Coast.
Debra Isham of President Lane has been regarded as November 2021 Variety of the Month by The Backyard Club at Palm Coastline.
Debra and her husband, formerly from Wisconsin, moved to Palm Coast 3 years in the past. Debra’s adore for gardening arrived from shelling out time in the backyard garden with her mother on their four acres. When she moved to Palm Coastline she promptly figured out that plants from her Wisconsin Zone 4 would not function in Florida in Zone 9B. Thus, she joined The Garden Club 2 1/2 yrs back. With a very little bit of persistence and some enable from her garden pals, she eventually figured out what operates here.
When Debra acquired her residence there was pretty minimal landscaping and she has turned it about into a wonderful sanctuary of numerous crops, whimsical decorations and wonderful planters. A lot of of her special planters appear from numerous property profits and thrift stores.
You are greeted at the doorway with a hanging Welcome flag, a wide range of succulents in decorative pots as very well as in a piece of driftwood. There are beautiful orange and pink ground orchids, a purple geranium in a pottery basket, a lily fountain, a snake plant and white mandevilla vines.
The entrance and aspect yards have spiral and shampoo ginger, crinum lilies, mini bottle brush, bleeding heart vine, caladium, very little gem magnolia, variegated liriope, Mexican heather, bromeliads, crape myrtle, plumbago, bird’s nest and moonshine sansevieria.
The back again lawn is comprehensive of so lots of many vegetation: fireplace bush, agapanthus, star spider lily, mom of thousand, crown of thorns, Kings mantel, blue iris, gerbera daisy, dwarf princess flower, rain lily, coral plant, cape honey suckle, roses, purple salvias, rosemary, elephant ear and kalanchoe.
Debra Isham’s ‘She Shed’ presents a spot to go through and relax.
In the yard we ended up entirely shocked to see her “She Shed.” It has French doorways with a wreath on every single and a attractive dragonfly on the exterior wall. The inside has an armoire with fancy glass sketched doors loaded with various extravagant pots and gardening books. She statements this is her get the job done area but it is so pleasant you could stay in it or at least have afternoon tea or a glass of wine!
Her spouse built her a pretty nice workbench outside the house the She Shed. She also has a compost bin which points out why she has this sort of a green thumb and it is evident in her stunning landscape all close to her property.
Makita is announcing over 15 new cordless tool and power equipment releases, as well as new high‐capacity batteries.
The 15+ new releases include a new battery‐powered 14‐inch power cutter, the latest addition to the 40V | 80V XGTSystem. New releases also include additions to the 18V LXTSystem which now offers 275+ products and is the world’s largest cordless tool system powered by 18V batteries. Makita is also showing a new ConnectX backpack power supply with most powerful battery ever offered by Makita, as well as compatible products including a new 21” lawn mower.
“Cordless innovation has taken so many jobsite applications to battery‐powered, but for years there have been those select applications at the top of the demand scale that still require cords, gasoline or compressed air,” said Mario Lopez, director of product development, Makita U.S.A., Inc. “Makita continues to break down cordless boundaries with advances in battery and motor technology that provide more power, longer run time and unmatched convenience and compatibility, like our new XGT14‐inch power cutter.”
XGT equipment and tools are engineered for high‐demand applications that traditionally use cords, gas or compressed air. XGT offers over 50 products powered by 40V max batteries, with select 80V products powered by two 40V max batteries. New XGT releases include the following:
NEW XGT 14” Power Cutter, GEC01
The new 14‐inch power cutter is a battery‐powered solution and an alternative to gas‐powered 14‐inch models so there’s lower noise, less maintenance, zero emissions and no pull cord hassles.
COMING SOON IN 2022.
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This highest‐capacity XGT battery supports the XGT commitment to create cordless options to equipment traditionally powered by cords, gas or compressed air. It is ideal for equipment‐grade battery‐powered product like the new XGT 14” Power Cutter.
COMING SOON IN 2022
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When used with an optional rail system, a plunge saw is a more portable option to table saws for precision cuts and breaking down sheet. The XGT Plunge Circular Saw is equipped with variable speed control (2,500
‐ 4,900 RPM), with a large cutting capacity (2‐3/16″ at 90°; and 1‐9/16″ at 45°) and bevel capability (‐1° to 48°, with positive stops at 22.5° and 45°).
NEW 40V max XGT Brushless Earth Auger, GGD01
The 40V max XGT® Earth Auger is powered by an efficient brushless motor for performance equivalent to a 36cc gas‐powered earth auger – but without pull starts and none of the noise and emissions associated with gas equipment. The auger will drill holes up to 8” wide and 41” deep. AVAILABLE IN WINTER 2021.
NEW 40V max XGT ½” Angle Drill, GAD01
This powerful and compact drilling solution has a brushless motor with two speed settings and variable speed (0‐4000 RPM, 0‐1,500 RPM) for maximum efficiency. It drills up to 6‐1/4″ holes with hole saws and 4‐ 5/8″ holes with self‐feed bits. AVAILABLE IN WINTER 2021.
NEW 40V max XGT® 7/16” Angle Drill, GAD02
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NEW 40V max XGT Cordless High‐Pressure Inflator MP001GZ
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NEW 40V max XGT Cordless L.E.D. Work Light ML003G
XGT and LXT users can light‐up their work space with this 1,100 Lumen Work Light. It’s compatible with Makita 40V max XGT and 18V LXT® batteries. This efficient light will deliver up to 22 hours of continuous illumination on low with a 4.0Ah 40V max XGT, and up to 10 hours on the high setting. AVAILABLE IN WINTER 2021.
NEW 40V max XGT High PSI Dust Blower, GSA01
This compact cleaning solution blows air at high pressure for efficient clean‐ups. The compact and ergonomic size makes it ideal for a full range of applications. COMING SOON IN 2022.
Makita LXT is the largest cordless tool system powered by 18V lithium‐ion slide‐ style batteries – and the system includes a growing range of 36V LXT tools and power equipment powered by TWO 18V lithium‐ion batteries. With over 275 products and ONE battery system, it is the world’s largest professional cordless tool system powered by 18V lithium‐ion batteries. New LXT releases include the following:
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NEW 18V LXT ¼” Sheet Sander, XOB02
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NEW 18V LXT Brushless 1/3” Sheet Sander, XOB03
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NEW 18V LXT 4‐Speed Impact Driver, XDT19
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ConnectX is a run‐time and power solution for professionals seeking a gas replacement. Makita is showing a new backpack power supply with its most powerful battery available ever offered, as well as a compatible 21” lawn mower. The backpack power supply is the heart of the ConnectX system.
NEW ConnectX 1,200Wh Backpack Power Supply (PDC1200A01)
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