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The Vigorous Life of Pruning
In the winter, I do a lot of pruning. There are no yellow jackets to avoid. The plants are dormant which is ideal and it is much easier to maneuver and identify shrubs and trees that seed in under my … Continue reading
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Tagged American persimmon, beneficial plants, ecology, garden, nothern pecan, pawpaw colony, pawpaw pruning, pruning, trees
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Yew and I Will Grow It
I have always been fond of yew. It was one of those species that inspired me to grow trees in my mind. Where in creation is yew? For me it was only in photographs. Like the one above, I saw … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, ecology, fruit, lumber, nature, range expansion, seed germination, seeds, timber, trees
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Structure and Function of Future Plants and Forests
One of the the great events of my family farm was the sand mining operations that left two large distinctively different ponds. In the process, it also created a completely different landscape. It was one we fully enjoyed as now … Continue reading
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Tagged environmental health, forestry, life, plants, trees
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Diversity Explored: Serviceberry
At the time of my early nursery life in the 1980’s I was well aware of this beautiful flowering ornamental plant with delicious fruit. Sometimes in the nursery profession, you would not want to use the word serviceberry. It made … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Amelanchier, ecology, food, garden, gardening, Juneberry, nature, plants, seeds, serviceberry', trees
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Diversity Discovered: The Atlantic White Cedar
It is always a surprise to me that a wetland tree found only in swamps, back waters of streams and lake fronts will grow outside of it’s specific low oxygen and high moisture location into the front of the average … Continue reading
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Tagged agroforestry, Atlantic cedar, Chamaecyparis, Chamaecyparis thyoides, ecology, Evergreen, lumber, nature, plants, seeds, trees, wood
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Alders Grow the Extra Mile
The Genus Alnus contains some amazing unsung heroes of tree crops.There are no commercial stands of alders or horticultural varieties to be found in cultivation. As far as I could tell there were no indications that any nursery produced alders … Continue reading
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Tagged agroforestry, alders, Alnus, Alnus orientalis, environment, fast growing, lumber, nature, nitrogen fixing, Oriental alder, tree crops, trees, woody crops
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When Trees Move
I created a small garden that was once a parking lot for a motor home. The previous owner pushed out the soil to the side and filled in gravel as a base. When I moved into the home, I decided … Continue reading
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Tagged ansu, apricot, trees
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Random is Not That Random
We tend to think of forests as a random set of circumstances creating infinite random configurations of plants each situated spatially that is highly variable. Things are not in rows. We would tend to think, “oh this is much more … Continue reading
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Tagged forest, gardening, plants, trees
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