People travel thousands of miles for the opportunity to experience the jaw-dropping blooms of ornamental cherry trees in ...
Yoshino cherry trees make for beautiful blooms in spring, but there are lots of factors that may affect their health. Here's ...
Autumn may mean the end of the gardening year but some plants go out not with a whimper but with an explosion of colour.
Last week I touched a nerve with my discussion of ornamental pears and the process of topping to preserve these trees. I rather expected this reaction as I penned the article. I knew I was pushing ...
With its shimmering harbour and tiara of snowcapped peaks, it’s little wonder Vancouver consistently rates in lists of the ...
But whoever dreamed up the worst pruning practice for any tree — topping ornamental pears to “save them” from their fate — is out of their mind. Let me back up and explain. Ornamental pear ...
The exceptions to the 'deciduous tree' rule are maple, horse chestnut, birch, walnut and cherry trees which all bleed extensively, even towards the end of their dormant season, so prune these in ...
Which type of cherry tree do I have? There are three groups of cherries, based on different species, and it is important to know which you have, as established trees are pruned differently. Sweet ...
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has revealed a list of largely unknown edible flowers flourishing in UK gardens — with ...
My weeping cherry tree is losing leaves fast ... Over the past month many ornamental weeping cherries and the widely popular Yoshino cherries have done what they seem to do every summer when ...