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dawn redwood

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Dawn Redwood

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 6660 Views conifer trees, Dawn Redwood, deciduous conifers, fast-growing trees, gardening with redwoods, Gold Rush dawn redwood, hardy Zone 5, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, ornamental trees, tree varieties

Dawn redwood or Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Is it an acquired taste, the conifer that loses its needles in the fall? Or

red sugar maple tree for Manitoba

Red Maples for Manitoba

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 5089 Views happy anniversary manitoba, Local content, mantioba 150 years, sugar maple tree

Let’s celebrate Canada’s heart beat with bred in Manitoba red maple trees. Plus 150 more wishes for Manitoba’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

dutch elm disease

Dutch Elm Disease

January 29, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2907 Views tree diseases, trees and shrubs

By Dorothy Dobbie American elms and Dutch elm disease The native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopina rupifes, and the smaller European

black knot on cherry trees

Black Knot on Cherry Trees

January 27, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4391 Views ornamental trees, tree disease, trees and shrubs

In the wintertime, black knot infections become increasingly apparent. Black knot is a fungus, Apiosporina morbosa, that colonizes members of

How to deal with your damaged trees after the storm

Manitoba Gardener Trees & Shrubs

Damaged Trees After the Storm

October 20, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 2659 Views CN Rail donation, fall storm, pruning damaged trees, Storm damage, Tree Canada, tree care, tree maintenance, tree planting, tree recovery, tree replanting, Winnipeg trees

How to deal with your damaged trees after the storm Trees were the major casualty of the sudden snowstorm October

10 Neat Things about Trees

10 Neat Things Foliage Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Trees

September 23, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 2268 Views 10 Neat Things, facts about trees, tree trivia, Trees

1. The lungs of the world. Trees produce oxygen in exchange for carbon dioxide. A large tree puts out enough

10 Neat Things about peaches

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Peaches

September 12, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 4263 Views 10 Neat Things, cool and interesting facts, peaches

1. Clingstone or freestone. When you eat a peach and the flesh comes neatly away from the pit, that is

10 Neat Things about planting trees

10 Neat Things Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Planting Trees

September 9, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 2968 Views 10 Neat Things, planting trees

1. The roots don’t reach to China. Many tree planting failures can be traced to digging the planting hole too

10 Neat Things about Apples

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Apples

August 29, 2019 Dorothy Dobbie 3118 Views 10 Neat Things, apples

1. They are so pomaceous! Pome is from the Latin word for fruit, pomun, but in our world, we apply

highbush cranberry

Highbush cranberry grows wild just about everywhere in Canada.

Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

Cranberries

August 27, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 4701 Views bush, Canada, cranberry, plant

Lowbush cranberry The lowbush cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is a North American plant, related to the blueberry, that grows naturally in