Maple Tree Diseases
Maples are among the most popular trees for the garden, especially as shade trees. No wonder! With their iconic leaves and spectacular fall colors, these hardy trees will grow in many climate zones…
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Bamboo Plant Care
Bamboo plants have a special and unique appearance that adds a special touch to the garden. They are also fast-growing plants that can be used for screening, especially in narrow spaces, since some…
What is Nitrogen Fixation
Of all the mineral nutrients needed by plants, nitrogen is unique. The others all come from the mineral fragments that make up soil, formed over millennia from the rock of the Earth’s crust….
Maple Tree Identification
The world is full of trees and many people are happy to leave it at that – loving them all or seeing them as a green background to life. But natural human curiosity…
Types of Magnolia Trees
Magnolia trees are the most ancient of flowering plants, so ancient that they appeared even before bees did, so their flowers developed to attract beetles to pollinate them instead, and they developed a…
How to Kill a Tree Stump
One of the biggest problems in a garden happens after a tree is removed. A large tree may be taken down to let in light, because it is crowding the house, or because…
Types of Maple Trees
Right in the center of the Canadian flag is a big red leaf – a maple leaf. Canadians have taken the maple tree to their hearts, but they certainly don’t have the monopoly…
What Is a Perennial?
Gardeners throw around a lot of words, from Latin names to specialized botanical terms. Special language has always been used to create private groups of aficionados, making a club for ‘members only’. So…
Types of Oak Trees
Symbols of strength, endurance and longevity, oak trees appear in literature and art as well as in our gardens. The oak is the national tree of numerous countries, including the United States, England,…
Growing Bamboo
Bamboo plants have a special and unique appearance that adds a special touch to the garden. They are also fast-growing plants that can be used for screening, especially in narrow spaces, since some…
How To Kill Bamboo
Bamboo plants are popular for screening and as beautiful specimens in gardens, especially if you are creating an ‘oriental’ theme. However they also have a reputation for turning into problem plants, growing too…
Trees and Shrubs for Florida
Florida sits across two hardiness zones. The north, and indeed most of the state, is in gentle zone 9, where winter temperatures might reach 20 degrees, meaning 12 degrees Fahrenheit below freezing, but…
Growing Citrus Trees in Containers
Gardeners who live in colder areas and travel to the south are always impressed with the various citrus trees they see growing. Maybe it’s the heady perfume when they are in bloom, or…
Growing Apple Trees
Despite all the more exotic fruits around today, apples remain the top favorite with almost everyone. Their balance of sweet and sharp flavor, combined with great portability is the reason why. There is…
A Garden of Native Trees and Shrubs
There was a time when the more exotic and rarer the plants in your garden were, the better your garden was. But with a growing awareness of the natural environment, that isn’t true…
How to Kill a Tree
Only some very strange people actually want to kill a tree, but sometimes a situation occurs where a particular tree just has to go. Maybe it wasn’t your fault – some previous owner…
How To Lay Sod?
How to Lay Sod It is not difficult to grow a lawn from seed, but it takes time and a little work, so most gardeners opt for sod when they want to put…
How To Kill Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy was here when the first settlers arrived, but it with suburban development it has become much more wide-spread, since it lives naturally at the edges of woodlands, just where we…
Creative Hedges
Hedges have a lot to offer in the garden. They give privacy and protection from the eyes of neighbors or passers-by. They create shelter from wind and even sun. They are wonderful sound-barriers…
The Ins and Outs of Tree Roots
Trees of course have roots to collect water and nutrients for the tree to grow. In the garden, tree roots can become a problem if proper consideration is not given to them when…
All About Bamboo Plants
Bamboo is well-known for its beauty in the garden, making an exotic and interesting screening plant, a garden specimen or a potted plant that adds lots of height to limited spaces. What exactly…
Gardenia Care
The scent of Gardenias in the still air of a summer evening is a wonderful thing. Not only is it a beautiful experience in its own right, but it evokes the Old South,…
The Amazing Monkey Puzzle Tree
“It would puzzle a monkey to climb that”, said the Englishman who saw this tree for the first time in a friend’s garden in Cornwall around the middle of the 19th century. The…
What is Chlorophyll?
It is pretty common these days to come across everything from toothpaste to dietary supplements that contain chlorophyll. So what is these weird stuff, and should we care? Chlorophyll is a large molecule…