Over the weekend Linda accepted an award from the Garden Writers Association for her book The Informed Gardener. It’s good to see that people are starting to pay attention to science based gardening, and no-one has worked more tirelessly than Linda to get the word out there!
OK, I know there are skeptics out there including many of my dear colleagues. Though it seems that at least some of my photos are making an impression. So here is another little photo tour through bare-rooting – this time with a bigger tree.
This demonstration was given at the 2006 ISA conference in Washington. This is a good sized tree…
…that we plopped into a Rubbermaid watering trough after removing the burlap…
…and washed off all the clay. … Continue reading this article “Take it all off (cue bow-chicka-bow-bow music)”
Nothing is more frustrating to a gardener than watching a newly installed tree or shrub slowly die. In performing “post mortem” analyses on failed landscape plantings, I’ve identified four common errors that can be easily avoided:
This blog entry will be dedicated to the first point – but before I do so, we need to understand how nursery plant production has changed over the last several decades.… Continue reading this article “Health care reform (of trees)”