A lot of people think pruning a tree with changing how the structure of the tree will make a different style or shape. While this isn’t necessarily the case, the altering of the tree in this manner is known as tree training. Tree training is a much better way to alter the way your tree […]
Tag Archives: Tree Health
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When looking for an nice, easy-care tree to grow indoors, consider the schefflera, better known as the umbrella tree. The umbrella tree is thusly called due to the deep green leaf groups that radiate out from the trunk on long slender stalks that resemble the ribs of an umbrella. Place The Umbrella Tree In Indirect […]
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Fukien Tea or Carmona (genus) Macrophylla *sometimes mispelled microphylla, is a popular bonsai tree named after the province of Fuijan in southeast China. It is difficult to care for as well as being quite expensive and hard to find. Thus, it is a tree advised for someone already competent with caring for bonsai or who […]
We think of trees for their health and for our aesthetic pleasure. While larger tree pruning is dangerous and best left to the professionals, pruning small trees is a job that can be handled by any gardener. Any job that can be handled with large pruners or pruning saws and does not require the use […]
Most of us are familiar with that mischievous holiday berry that encourages us to kiss under one we find. Today’s tradition is only a part of the stories passed down through the centuries. The Druids of Celtic mythology used the gourd to cure disease and poison, believing it to have spiritually defensive qualities and to […]
Dogwood Trees are known for their delicate early spring blooms in pink or white. Found as an understory tree in forests, it does equally well in the home landscape in full sun. The problem is the dogwood is susceptible to a number of diseases. Here are the more major ones and their symptoms to watch […]