For some home gardeners, when it comes to specimen trees and shrubs, it’s all about the fragrance. For others, it’s multi-seasonal interest. Here are a just a few interesting trees and shrubs that fulfill either or both of those landscaping preferences. Halesia Carolina, Carolina Silverbell, native to the southern Appalachian Mountains, is typically an understory […]
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Archive for Trees, Shrubs, And Other Yardly Concerns – Page 2
Have you ever noticed how some patches of tulips, some of which look like a cat planted the bulbs, thrive year after year, while others are just one hit wonders? And how many times have you paid more than common sense would dictate for a lily corm, only to have it sputter out before its […]
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The three most significant principles of judicious pruning appear to be: 1) knowing what to prune, 2) when to prune it, and 3) how to prune it. Mess up on one of these, and your victims of inappropriate pruning display those bad haircuts publicly for at least a season. Imagine doing that to your teenage […]
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So I walked into my favorite plant nursery (you know the one) in early spring, and saw this strapping, young Stewartia pseudocamellia, just popping with flower buds. Stewartia trees are generally not easy to find, and worth their weight in gold to those of us who love its form, bark, and blossoms. Of course I […]
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Keeping Cool We are reminded during mandatory flight safety videos to take care of ourselves, first, then help others. The same principle applies to gardening in hot summer weather – we can’t water and tend to our gardens without first making sure that we are cool, protected, and hydrated. Avoiding the heat altogether is the […]
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According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a ground cover is “a low plant or group of plants used in a garden to cover the ground”. If we loosely interpret the meaning of “low”, that pretty much grants us liberty to plant whatever works in our situation, and call it a ground cover. We’re no longer obligated […]
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