Place the root ball in the planting hole so the graft union — the visible spot where the rootstock was grafted to the fruit tree — is slightly above the soil surface line.A good way to ensure this is to lay a piece of lumber, a bamboo cane, or a fence post across the top of th...
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 ...
In extreme cases,heat lamps with a 100-watt bulb can keep trees warm, especially if placed under a cover to protect saplings. However, this risks burning the tree, so be careful that the lamp does not touch the plant. If a single bulb is unavailable, you also can use strings of Chris...
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 successfully propagated blueberries and grown elderberries from cuttings, I haven’t been able to get honeyberries to root. All our plant...
in southern China, ginger found its way into European kitchens in the first century A.D., thanks again to the lucrative trade of the spice route. Ginger readily spread to other regions of Asia, the Spice Islands, and West Africa, and eventually made its way on to the Caribbean islands. ...