Articles for tag: Grow Flowers, Pruning Trees, Tree Health, Tree Pruning

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Pruning Trees for a Healthy and Beautiful Garden

We prune trees for their health and for our aesthetic pleasure. While major tree pruning is a dangerous job best left to professionals, pruning small trees is a job that can be handled by any gardener. Any job that can be managed with large secateurs or a pruning saw and does not require the use ...

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Fukien Tea Bonsai

Fukien Tea or Carmona (genus) Macrophylla *sometimes mispelled microphylla, is a popular bonsai tree named after the province of Fuijan in southeast China. It is difficult to care for as well as being quite expensive and hard to find. Thus, it is a tree advised for someone already competent with caring for bonsai or who ...

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How to Train Tree Branches to Grow the Way You Want

A lot of people think pruning a tree with changing how the structure of the tree will make a different style or shape. While this isn’t necessarily the case, the altering of the tree in this manner is known as tree training. Tree training is a much better way to alter the way your tree ...

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How to Grow Your Own Mistletoe

Most of us know mistletoe as that mischievous holiday berry-cluster that encourages us to kiss if found beneath one. This current tradition is only a part of mistletoe myths throughout the ages. Druids of Celtic myths used mistletoe to cure disease and poison, believed it had spiritually protective qualities and also thought it to grant ...

How to Grow an Umbrella Tree – Schefflera

When looking for an nice, easy-care tree to grow indoors, consider the schefflera, better known as the umbrella tree. The umbrella tree is thusly called due to the deep green leaf groups that radiate out from the trunk on long slender stalks that resemble the ribs of an umbrella. Place The Umbrella Tree In Indirect ...

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Diseases of Dogwood Trees

Dogwood Trees are known for their delicate early spring blooms in pink or white. Found as an understory tree in forests, it does equally well in the home landscape in full sun. The problem is the dogwood is susceptible to a number of diseases. Here are the more major ones and their symptoms to watch ...