How to Sell your trees or shrubs
So you've bought a new house! It's fully landscaped! You don't really like any of those plants. You've heard that Japanese maple is 20 years old and could be worth millions! You hate that collection of Rhododendrons and you want them gone. ... [... more]
eHow |
Allergy Free Gardening
Tips on how to create your own allergy-free garden and landscape by planting female trees and avoiding excess pollen. Avoid any "seedless," or "male" varieties of trees or shrubs. Pollen dispersal tests on typical landscape trees such [... more]
Do It Yourself |
Hornets & Yellowjackets - ENT/rsc-10
By: Stephen B. Bambara and Michael Waldvogel, Extension Entomology Baldfaced hornets may be best described as large, black and white, heavy-bodied wasps about 3/4" long. They typically build exposed, mottled grey nests in trees or shrubs. ... [... more]
NC State University Coop Extension |
How to Plant a Balled-and-Burlapped Tree or Shrub
A balled-and-burlapped (also known as 'B-and-B') tree or shrub comes with a burlap-wrapped clump of soil around its roots. Many evergreens are traditionally sold this way. Buy balled-and-burlapped trees or shrubs for planting in autumn or spring. ... [... more]
eHow |
Heartwood
Heartwood is a collection of dead xylem vessels making up most of what is classified as a trees or shrub's wood. While the xylem are classified as dead, they still may store some carbohydrates. Because the center of the plant is composed of ... [... more]
Old House Web |
Cold injury
Cold injury should not be confused with browning of evergreen foliage. The winter injury described here is the death of entire stems of either evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs. Plants affected by this type of injury often try to leaf out or ... [... more]
Old House Web |
Contemporary Black Finish Low Voltage Landscape Bullet Light
 Create a soft glow for your trees or shrubs with this landscape bullet light. This directional spotlight in a bullet style,features a black texture polyester powder coat finish and easily adjustable swivel. For mounting it comes with a black 9" ABS [... more]
$82.90
Shop Table Lamps |
Poisonous Plants and Plant Parts
Vegetation helps sustain life. We eat many plants, herbs and so forth in our daily diet. But, we must remember to be choosy. Some plants, trees or shrubs are potential killers of man. Some part of the ornamental plants or flowers in your yard may ... [... more]
Texas Horitculture |
The Florida Gardener's Book of Lists (Book of Lists Series)
Get the information that your after!: I have been trying to get an idea of what long-lived, pest-free tree options I have in Central Florida and this is the only book I've found yet that tells me. I have nearly seven "Florida" gardening books [... more]
$17.95
Amazon.com |
Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, ...
The Book: Harris wrote the first edition of this book when trees were "trimmed" by the same people who patched asphalt and repaired park benches. It was a breath of rationality in a field that relied mostly on anecdotal information. The new [... more]
$115.00
Amazon.com |
Tree & Shrub Gardening for Illinois
Big Help: We live in the Chicago area and this book was a huge help when, after losing three thirty year old pine trees, we needed to purchase new trees for our yard. In the past I have not always found the nursery people very helpful. Mistakes can be [... more]
$18.95
Amazon.com |
Deserts (Audubon Society Nature Guides)
Amazon.com Review: This essential guidebook to the North American deserts, one in a distinguished Audubon Society series devoted to continental biomes, contains in outline just about all the natural-history information a desert rat will need in the field. [... more]
$19.95
Amazon.com |
