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Deciduous trees can be used to create privacy. They can be used along a boundary to protect and enclose a garden or property. Deciduous trees can be used as a wall of green through the warm months of the year; they can still serve as a boundary in the cold time of the year even…
Trees with colorful autumn foliage are at their best from mid-to-late autumn. Make the most of trees with colorful autumn foliage by planting them where they can be seen from windows in your house or along well-traveled paths or drives. Autumn leaves will be especially brilliant after a hot summer, but after a mild summer,…
Some trees are adapted to clay soil. Planting clay-tolerant trees is a start to growing a garden where the soil dense and dry or waterlogged. You can improve less-than-ideal soil by adding organic matter—aged compost, manure, and commercial organic planting mix. Organic matter lightens heavy clay soil by separating dense clay particles. Organic matter improves…
American Planetree, Platanus, is a handsome deciduous tree characterized by its dense maple-like foliage and bark that peels off in large patches. Planetrees are frequently used for street planting and other ornamental purposes—the tree has a massive shapeliness. They are excellent shade trees and mottled white and gray trunks form which the bark falls in…
Pine is the common name of the large genus Pinus. There are many species; all are evergreen species. Pines are distinguished from conifers by their needle-like leaves in clusters of definite numbers and by their hard, woody cones that mature the second or third season. Pines are very adaptable to varied climatic conditions. They grow…
Spruce is the common name for Picea, a genus of evergreen trees of the Pine Family. Spruce have whorled branches, narrow needle-like leaves, and fruit which is usually a pendant cone. Drooping cones distinguish spruces from firs that bear upright cones. Spruces are exceedingly ornamental. Large spruces are especially valuable for park or estate planting…
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