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 …
Tree and Bush Work
If you’re wondering how to tell if a tree is dead, it implies you must’ve already spotted familiar problems and first signs of tree decay, such as lack of new buds or leaves and, at times, no leaves at all on the wrong season.
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.
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 …
St. John’s wort, also known as Hypericum perforatum, is a beautiful perennial bush blooming during summer and early fall. However, it is crucial for a bush to be pruned to stay healthy and spick and span. Keep reading this article to learn how to prune St. John’s wort bush.
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 …
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, …
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.
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. …
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 …
North Star Dwarf White Spruce is a thick multi-stemmed evergreen plant with a refined and distinctive pyramidal form. It has a fine texture and less refined foliage, different from other landscape plants. North Star Dwarf White Spruce has green foliage that emerges light green during spring. The leaves continue being green through the winter and …
Fothergilla Blue Shadow is a compact and deciduous shrub with creamy-white and fragrant bottlebrush flower heads. It has blue-green rounded leaves that form a vivid shade of orange, yellow, or red in autumn. Fothergilla Blue Shadow is excellent in adding rich color to the homestead. The plant produces fragrant, bottle-brush-like, and fluffy blooms in spring …
Lemon Thread False Cypress is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. It provides a delicate and fine texture to the land composition, making it the best accent feature. Likewise, lemon Thread False cypress has beautiful lemon yellow foliage that turns gold in the spring. It has highly ornamental thread-like leaves, which turn yellow …
The Franklin’s Gem Boxwood is a very dense and small shrub plant that can be maintained easily. These plants originated from parts of Korea and China. Due to the plant’s compact size, they are perfect for growing in small gardens. The green foliage of this shrub turns into a beautiful olive green color which is …
Parthenocissus quinquefolia or Virginia creeper is a species of flowering vine that belongs in the grape family. This vine is most commonly found in eastern to central North America, southeast Canada, east to southern Mexico, and Guatemala. Virginia creeper is used as an ornamental plant, and it is great to cover surfaces like masonry walls. …
The Pencil Point Juniper is a small shrub that is beautiful and easy to care for at the same time. Natively found towards the northern hemisphere, these plants boast evergreen leaves that beautify any setting they’re planted in.
Many homeowners love boxwoods because of how easily they grow. They are famous for their luxurious hedges that can form an entrance to your garden. However, boxwoods are not entirely foolproof. They are some issues that could cause your boxwoods to turn yellow. Although you can easily cure some of these issues, others are pretty …
Mikawa Yatsubusa Japanese Maple is a tree that has become quite popular in recent years because of its growth size. These trees grow at a very slow pace that allows you to keep them in your average-sized garden. The foliage of the tree produces sensational colors in the spring season that further intensify its overall …
Late summer is a time that every gardener dreads. Around this time, loads of spiders start webbing the leaves. These are sometimes surprisingly large, which you don’t really expect from a spider. The branch tips are usually where you start seeing these giant webs.
If you’re a new gardener and are planting one of your first crepe myrtles, you would be facing a number of unique challenges that you would never have expected to meet. The tree might just be growing fine, and then the bark would start peeling. So what do you do in such a situation? If …