Trees & Shrubs Archives

Monday, March 31, 2025

Red Maples for Manitoba

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

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

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 Trees were the major casualty of the sudden snowstorm October

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

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

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

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

Highbush cranberry grows wild just about everywhere in Canada.

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

Chokecherry fruit 1. Not the same. Chokecherries and chokeberries look quite similar to the untrained eye and they both taste