Tag: trees
Palm Trees Within Home Gardens
UNITED STATES—Trees conform to an overly vague definition. Most simply, they are substantial and woody perennial plants with tall trunks and branches. Yet, several...
Flowering Trees For Spring Bloom
UNITED STATES—Fruit trees such as apricot, cherry, peach and plum, bloom about now. Some are already finished, while a few are just beginning. Apple...
Citrus Fruits Ripen Through Winter
UNITED STATES—Planting and pruning of deciduous fruit trees are priorities for winter. Evergreen fruit trees are not as much of a concern. For them,...
Live Christmas Trees Grow Up
UNITED STATES—Cut Christmas trees are the epitome of cut foliage. They grow on farms until harvest, like most other cut foliage. They then beautify...
Bark Up The Right Tree
UNITED STATES—Autumn foliar color does not seem to last long enough. As it dissipates, though, it reveals silhouettes of bare deciduous trees. Some are...
Trees May Benefit From Winterization
UNITED STATES—Arboriculture becomes more of a concern at this time of year. Although winter is a month away, the weather is becoming increasingly stormy....
Firewood Literally Grows On Trees
UNITED STATES—Autumn foliar color is a reminder that, regardless of pleasant weather, it really is autumn. The days are getting shorter. The weather is...
Binding For Straighter Tree Trunks
UNITED STATES—Staking is not quite the same as binding with stakes. It is more for the benefit of the roots than the trunks, which...
Spontaneous Limb Failure Among Trees
UNITES STATES—Soil saturation is detrimental to trees for a few reasons. Excessive irrigation is almost as problematic, even without saturation. Chronic excessive moisture compromises...
Street Trees Must Be Adaptable
UNITED STATES—Trees of substantial size are not as popular as they had been among old home gardens. Modern landscapes of bigger homes on smaller...
Arboriculture Is Very Specialized Horticulture
UNITED STATES—Horticulture is as diversified as horticultural professionals. Nurserymen grow horticultural commodities. Landscape designers plan installation of the commodities into landscapes. Landscapers construct the...
Citrus Are Summery For Winter
UNITED STATES—Citrus trees are not like deciduous fruit trees. They are not marketable as bare root stock. They do not need winter pruning. Actually,...
Potted Christmas Trees Grow Up
UNITED STATES—There should be no stigma associated with cut Christmas trees. They grow on farms, not within natural ecosystems, as some believe. Like cut...
Banana Trees Actually Produce Bananas
UNITED STATES—Banana trees, much like palms, arboriform yuccas and cordylines, are herbaceous trees. They develop no secondary xylem, or wood. What seems to be...
Palm Trees Deserve Special Accommodation
UNITED STATES—Palm trees qualify as trees merely because of their size and form. The most familiar sorts here develop trunks, and many grow quite...
Staking Helps Keep Trees Straight
UNITED STATES—Planting trees often involves staking. Until they disperse new roots, many new trees rely on stakes for stabilization. Their stability is limited by...
Electrical Cables Necessitate Arboricultural Atrocities
UNITED STATES—Electrical cables are hazardous! There is no need to elaborate. That is why high voltage electrical cables are either subterranean or aerial. Subterranean...
Clearance Pruning Directs Obtrusive Vegetation
UNITED STATES—Pruning techniques are very diverse to serve various purposes. Dormant pruning during winter concentrates resources for spring or summer growth. Hedging or shearing...
Arboriculture Is Horticulture Of Trees
UNITED STATES—Recently wintry weather is a reminder that large trees require maintenance. Otherwise, some are likely to eventually drop limbs or blow over. Even...
Wind Is Messy And Hazardous
UNITED STATES—Arborists become more popular after storms. That is when consequences of negligent tree maintenance become more apparent. Wind dislodges limbs and destabilizes whole...
