Trees & Shrubs Archives

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Cherry Blossoms

1. Hanami . It’s cherry blossom time in Japan! Hanami means “flower-viewing” and generally refers to taking in the beauty

Of all the trees in your garden, the one that causes the most grief over winter is the cedar. The

What in the garden should you wrap for winter? Nothing. Wrapping can do more harm than good as wrapping materials

All you have to do to start a new willow is tuck a cutting (or even a stick) in some

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

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

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