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How to Trim Tall Trees – 6 Helpful Instructions & Bonus Tips & Tricks

Trees are an essential part of the ecosystem contributing to a healthier quality of air and improving the overall aesthetic of your landscape. However, they can sometimes be a nuisance when they grow tall and become difficult to manage. The branches extend everywhere and become gnarly and often block the windows and doorways. To get …

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Why Is My Outdoor Bamboo Dying? (Top 6 Reasons with Solutions)

You have a bamboo tree outside your backyard, and you love how it looks. It brightens up the look of your garden, always making it seem lusher and greener, always giving you a place to sit in, and shading you from the sun. But, recently, your bamboo plant has been drying up, its leaves turning …

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How to Cloud Prune Boxwoods – 6 Incredible Tips

Cloud pruning is a method of pruning trees and shrubs in circular forms that give an illusion of a cloud. Cloud pruning comes from a Japanese pruning technique called ‘Niwaki’, which translates to ‘garden tree’. Boxwood is an evergreen shrub with dense and vibrant foliage mostly planted for graceful landscaping. Keep following our guide to …

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Why Is My Nandina Losing Its Leaves? 3 Reasons Why

Nandina is an evergreen shrub that features white flowers, red berries, and pinnate leaves. This bushy shrub can be a dramatic addition to be your garden. You can also grow it in containers. Whatever option you choose, a Nandina plant will always add an exotic touch to your home. When something happens to the plant, …

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How To Tell If Crepe Myrtle Is Dead: Plus Possible Solutions

Have you ever had the chance to sit back and enjoy your Crape Myrtle’s handsomeness for your first time, only for the plant to have a gnarly bark that seems lifeless the next season? If yes, you’re not alone. Each year, I get panic emails of allegedly “dead” Crape Myrtles from my readers. With that …

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The Green Vase Zelkova – 5 Caring tips & Propagation Method

The Green Vase Zelkova (AKA The Japanese Zelkova, or Zelkova Serrata) is a relatively medium-sized tree that may reach heights approaching 20 metres in height. With erect trunks, it develops a wide-spreading habit with a curved crown, making it the ideal showpiece tree for the landscape.

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Autumn Jazz Viburnum – 6 Caring tips & 2 Propagation Methods

Autumn Jazz Viburnum plant is among the most beautiful ornamental plants you will ever set your eyes on. Native to south America, southeast Asia, Russia, and Ukraine, they are surely not among your regular crowd of house plants because of their stunning, scalloped leaves with wonderful clusters of flowers that give off really pleasant fragrances …

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Why Does My Crepe Myrtle Look Dead – 4 Things That Can Happen

Crepe myrtles come in various colors and heights, so you need to choose one that suits your needs. Few flowering plants can match the crepe myrtles’ brilliant summer hue. Take a look around your immediate area. From mid-June until mid-August, nearly every street in the South is lined with beautiful blossoming trees. But if you …

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Leucadendron Safari Sunset – 6 Caring tips & Propagation Guide

Safari Conebush (Leucadendron ‘Safari Sunset’) resulted from the cross-breeding between a Leucadendron laureolum with Leucadendron salignum in New Zealand in the 1960s. This is a robust, tall, and upright growing shrub with green leaves and deep, red-coloured bracts appearing on long stems in late summer. This shrub is a hardy cultivar that can withstand winter, alkalinity, …

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Parthenocissus Inserta (8 Caring Tips and 3 Propagating Methods)

Parthenocissus Inserta is a woody vine that originated from North America in the west of southern Manitoba and the U.S., from Montana to Maine west and east of Missouri, and south of New Jersey. It supports itself by twining the tendrils around anything available or just by inserting into crevices.

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How To Thicken Bonsai Trunk – A 6 Methods Guide

One of the goals of cultivating the bonsai tree is to have a robust tree trunk. The trunk of a bonsai has two functions. To begin with, the trunk protects the whole tree from the weather. Second, the stem distributes carbohydrates to the roots from the leaves and transports water and nutrients to the foliage. …

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Chollipo Euonymus – 8 Things To Keep In Mind For Better Caring!

Chollipo Euonymus is a thick multi-stemmed evergreen shrub that grows and spreads upright. It has a fine texture and less refined foliage. Chollipo Euonymus can grow to about 12 feet tall in its maturity and spread to about 6 feet. This plant tends to fill the ground, so it does not necessarily need facer plants …

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