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Productive fruit trees with an abundance of high-quality fruit don't just happen. They result from good cultural practices, including pruning. However, fruit tree pruning is often neglected by the home gardener either due to a lack of pruning skills and knowledge, or due to fear plants will be damaged or killed by incorrect pruning. There... Continue Reading →
We've had our first touch of cold weather, with night temps falling to the upper 30s on October 6th and 7th , but no hard freezes yet. Of course, we're at the end of the gardening season. But if you have tender plants, and you want to keep them growing a while longer, it's important to pay... Continue Reading →
Did you realize some evergreen needles change color in the fall too, just like deciduous trees do? It's true and it often causes alarm in homeowners when their evergreen trees start to drop needles. Although most conifer trees are considered to be "evergreen", their needles don't live forever. What makes them evergreen is that their... Continue Reading →
Popular plants can be overplanted in the landscape. Two examples of overplanted tree species in most communities includes ornamental pear varieties, such as Bradford pear, and red maple. Planting lots of one specific plant not only gets monotonous, but can lead to problems. Low diversity plantings, consisting of only a few species, should be avoided for several reasons. All susceptible trees of... Continue Reading →
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