Tag: trees
Palms Need Proper Planning Too
California has no more native palms than Oklahoma has with the diminutive dwarf palmetto. The stately California fan palm, which is also known as...
Utility Cables Need Space
Since I did not make the drive up or down the coast very often, the rare silvery-gray Bismarck palm that I could see slowly...
Vegetable Gardening Is Still Cool
UNITED STATES—Last autumn, it was unpleasant to remove warm season vegetable plants to relinquish space for cool season vegetables, particularly since some still seemed...
Only arborists specialize in trees.
Just as most problems in landscapes are caused by maintenance gardeners hired to maintain the landscapes, many of the problems with trees are caused...
Christmas Leftovers
Just three weeks after Christmas, many of us are already wondering what to do with poinsettias, cyclamens, Christmas cacti, hollies and living Christmas trees....
Early pruning may have advantages
As long as it gets done well before buds begin to swell late in winter, the meticulous and specialized pruning that deciduous fruit trees...