If you live in the north-east, you might have a white pine tree. These lovely native trees are usually easy to grow, but there is one serious disease that can attack them.This fungus attacks side branches, which die – creating ‘flags’ – and then spreads along the branch until it ...
While Norway spruce is not native to the U.S. (it comes from Europe), but it grows very well throughout USDA hardiness zones 3 through 7. The trees like cold winters and warm summers, and grow well in a variety of soils. They are somewhat resistant to drought but grow best, especiall...
Remove any extra food sources from your tree. If you nailed a bird house to the tree, or if your kids hung a bird seeded pine cone to the tree, you will want to remove them. Squirrels love to feast on bird seed, and this could be what is attracting the squirrels in the first plac...
Cuba Center in Delaware, with 50 acres of native-plant display gardens and 500 acres of natural land, back to the radio show to help make the best choices and grow them to perfection. George knows from Heuchera, having trialed 83 varieties side by side (the exhaustive results are in this...
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Juniper bushes are stubby evergreens related to the cypress. They grow almost anywhere and can be found across North America, Europe, Northern Asia and Japan. The fruit of the juniper bush is the juniper berry or juniper "cone." When ripe, they look like small blueberries, purplish blue in...
How we TOP OFF the tree; A 19th century paper rooster, a sheltie likeness and a simple pine cone take Christmas trees to new heights. Read on for other star attractions.E.A. Harvey
Refusing to be held back, such unexpected visitors are an increasingly common occurrence on my property as well. Learning who they are and how they grow has been one of the great joys of gardening (or what I’m starting to think of as “un-gardening.”) Some are diminutive, like the ...
Decorate your home this season with one of our pine cone crafts! These DIY Christmas decorations and ornament ideas using pine cones will spruce up your home.
They love to eat the new growth and ripe fruit from my apple trees. As the semi-dwarf apple trees grow higher I prune off all lower branches. The deer get a few branches and we get the rest the deer cannot reach on their hind legs. A 70-30 split favoring the upper primates!