Trees like Japanese maple, star magnolia, crabapple, flowering dogwood, sugar maple, arborvitae, blue spruce, and desert willow add beauty and color to the landscape. Shrubs like rose, holly, lilac, azalea, flowering quince, and spirea have a smaller footprint with beautiful flowers perfect for ...
Honeyberries are generally grown from transplants that were propagated from cuttings and then rooted in a pot for 1 to 2 years before planting. While we’ve successfullypropagated blueberriesandgrown elderberries from cuttings, I haven’t been able to get honeyberries to root. All our plants we...
Young trees, newly planted trees, and thin-barked trees such as cherry, crabapple, honey locust, linden, maple, mountain ash, and plum are prone to sunscald. How to Protect: You can prevent sunscald by wrapping the trunk with white guards to reflect the sun and keep the bark at a cons...
Young saplings that are only 1 or 2 years old work best. Their limbs are still quite pliable compared to an older tree. If you are planting a fruit tree, opt for self-pollinating types of fruit trees if you are only planting one. If planting an apple, choose apple trees that are spu...