A Bold Border of Trees and Shrubs
When I began working with one of my landscape clients, in 1988, he had been building his collection of trees and shrubs for many years. They had been assembled with little rhyme or reason, so he asked me to give the collection a sense of composition. [... more]
Fine Gardening |
Small Shrubs for Small Spaces
Whether you're landscaping your yard for the first time, or you simply need to replace aging plants that are past their prime, small shrubs might be just what you need. Shrubs provide the structural backbone of a garden. With their colorful ... [... more]
Colorado State University |
How to Prune Evergreen Shrubs
Unfortunately, most evergreen shrubs only get the once over with hedge shears, leaving problems to develop from inside the plant. It's important to remove dead, diseased or injured branches, and open the framework, enabling air to circulate ... [... more]
eHow |
How to Grow Flowering Shrubs
Flowering shrubs are a quick and sometimes inexpensive way to get color and interest into your landscape without a lot of maintenance and upkeep. Once you've decided upon the correct shrubs for your property, it's easy to maintain them. Once ... [... more]
eHow |
The Homeowner's Tree & Shrub Primer
 Adding trees and shrubs to a home landscape is always an expensive proposition. This is the book homeowners will refer to when making their purchases and protecting their investment. [... more]
$24.86 (Save 38%)
Buy.com |
Diseases of Trees and Shrubs (Comstock Book)
A comprehensive study of diseases and their (mis) diagnosis: This book compiles a GREAT deal of useful information about plant pathology. It covers, as any good work about plant disease should, fertilization, nutritional deficiencies, and environmental [... more]
$79.95
Amazon.com |
Trees and Shrubs for the Southwest: Woody Plants for ...
Invaluable resource: Mary's books are invaluable for the information they provide for plants adapted to the Low Desert, and this one is no exception. She's writing about trees this time, and what a compendium this is. She also includes information about [... more]
$34.95
Amazon.com |
Ericaceous Shrubs
Ericaceous shrubs require an acid soil. This includes iron deficiency are yellow leaves (Vis. 2) with green veins. When severe, the leaves are yellow (Vis. 1) with brown azalea, rhododendron, pieris and most of the flowering broad-leaved ... [... more]
Michigan State University Extension |
Why Don't Shrubs Flower (or fruit)?
Diagnostic questions usually inspire a question in response. My response to "Why don't my shrubs flower?" is usually something like: "Have they ever flowered?" "How long have they been planted?" "Did they start not [... more]
NC State University Coop Extension |
NCSU: ENT/ort-07 CATERPILLARS THAT FEED ON TREES AND SHRUBS
General Information There are over 1400 kinds of moths and butterflies in North Carolina. Some of these lay eggs from which hatch destructive caterpillars that feed on our trees and shrubs. The moths and butterflies (adults) cannot do any damage ... [... more]
NC State University Coop Extension |
Trees And Shrubs For Pacific Northwest Gardens
Book Description: Northwest gardeners have relied on the solid information found in various editions of this book for more than 50 years. This greatly enlarged 1990 edition reflects the vast increase in suitable plants for the region now available from [... more]
$30.95
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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
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