Trees are great to have on your property, bringing beauty and shade, cleaning the air and removing CO2 from the atmosphere – we should all be planting more of them. Older trees, though, can need some care, especially when they grow near your home, or could potentially become a hazard if branches started falling. Sometimes too, a tree has been planted a little too close,…

It’s the beginning of not just a new year, but a new decade too, and such moments can bring on episodes of deep reflection. Here at the Tree Center we focus on the practical – how to choose from among that vast array of trees and shrubs out there, how to plan, and how to plant. The emphasis is on ‘How’, and yet we rarely…

Of all the months of the year, January is the one which will be very different in your garden, depending on where you live. In colder zones  you can pretty much guarantee it will be a month of deep sleep, buried beneath a blanket of snow. At the other extreme, in Florida or southern California, it can be mild and warmer, with the first hints…

2019 saw a lot of big stories. But the biggest was the final realization by people (most politicians still have some catching up to do) that we are in danger of leaving our children a planet in a much worse state than the one we inherited. It’s a big fix, calling for action on a collective scale, but there is one thing that each of…

Everyone is using colored leaves in the garden these days – colored something other than green that is. Perhaps it is precisely because green is so ubiquitous that there is an eternal fascination with plants that don’t have green leaves, but whatever the reason, colored leaves are always popular. Colored leaves are usually either lighter – with areas of yellow, cream or white on them,…

There are many kinds of roses – Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Landscape Rose, and many more – but the same rose can come in different ways too. Typically, they are grown to produce stems from ground level, and become a bushy plant. But sometimes we see them on a trunk, which may be one to four feet tall, with a crown of branches where the flowers…