Thursday, November 21, 2024

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Pruning Your Trees

If you have just entered the tree growing world, you have no doubt heard the term “pruning” tossed around […]

Growing Trees

When I was a kid, I always used to like to watch growing trees. My uncle had a growing […]

Growing Trees for Shade

If you are currently trying to plant trees in order to shade your garden, you will probably want something […]

Green ECO

Flowering Cherry Trees

In the neighborhood I grew up in, cherry blossoms meant spring. There was a woman who had been living […]

General Info About Trees

Removing Old Trees

General Info About Trees

Sometimes a tree gets to the point where it is necessary to say goodbye to it. It can be a painful choice to make, but sometimes the tree gets too close to the house, gets too diseased, gets an incurable infestation of some pest, or grows too tall and gets close to a power line. If any of these things occur, its best to do the right thing and get rid of the tree. Although you might have spent hours and hours getting the tree to where […]

Plants And Trees Wallpapers – Get Greenery On Your Desktop

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Let us go to a deep forest and watch the thick tress growing there. The small plants dancing with joy near the small waterfalls. In a forest we find the earth smelling fresh and the birds chirping happily. Wild animals begin hunting as taught by nature and the ecology always remains in balance. Now visit a busy city. What does a big city have? It has tall concrete buildings with no soul. It has automobiles running on the roads polluting the air with abandon with all types […]

Planting Large Fruit Trees, Berry Bushes, Grape Vines, And Oak Trees

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Much national attention has been focused on the health and future welfare of wildlife animals and birds by wildlife management conservationists and hunters who want to preserve a valuable American resource: the population of wild animals and wild game. Increased planting of inedible crops like cotton and tobacco has reduced wildlife food supplies. Urban expansion has rapidly reduced forests where wildlife food once grew, and very efficient grain harvesting has left only a little corn or wheat in fields for wildlife food browsing. Until recent years, the […]

Miniature Fruit Trees

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It seems that each spring home owners are looking for new ways to spruce up their landscaping. Everyone likes to have a nice looking yard. There are many trends now to help people extend their living space into the outdoors. This is done through outdoor furniture, planters, rock gardens and creating separate areas in the yard. Even small yards can be arranged to create useful welcoming spaces. Many people with small yards feel that they are limited in what they can plant, however with the development of […]

Landscaping Lessons-Proper Placement Of Trees In Landscape Design

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Landscaping and landscape design goes beyond just creating beautiful designs. As a professional designer, it’s not only my job to create designs but also to envision every possibility of the mature landscape in years to come. And while most elements will remain what they are for years to come, the one thing that most do it yourselfers and some professionals overlook is the space that tiny little sprouts will occupy when they become mature plants and trees. Trees serve a number of obvious purposes in the landscape. […]

Kids And Trees Grow With The Environmental Three R’s

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Every day in America, each man, woman and child generates nearly four pounds of trash. That’s over one trillion pounds of solid waste or 365 trillion pounds each year. It’s a staggering statistic when you consider the environmental effect that much garbage has on our fragile ecosystem. As adults, it’s easy to forget the importance of the 3 R’s our world depends on-reducing, reusing and recycling-for the health and safety of future generations. It’s those future generations–our children–that will bear the consequences of today’s environmental mismanagement, unless […]

Fertilizing to Create More Blossoms on Your Flowers, Flowering Shrubs and Trees

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You are welcome to use this article on your website or in your newsletter as long as you reprint it as is, including the contact information at the end. Website URLs must be active links. The secret to making your flowering trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials bloom more is in the numbers. All fertilizers have analysis numbers on the package. These numbers represent the percentage of each chemical the fertilizer contains.  For example, 12-12-12 is a typical garden fertilizer that would contain 12% nitrogen, 12% phosphorous, and […]