… and in quantity as a crop, they can also be grown in the home garden. Special attention to pollination, disease/pest vigilance, and pruning may be required for the trees to thrive and fruit in the home environment. Although apple fruit trees produce … tree for the home garden that is smaller than its commercial counterpart. Apple trees produce best fruiting when they are between 10 and 30 years of age. …
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… and in quantity as a crop, they can also be grown in the home garden. Special attention to pollination, disease/pest vigilance, and pruning may be required for the trees to thrive and fruit in the home environment. Although apple fruit trees produce … tree for the home garden that is smaller than its commercial counterpart. Apple trees produce best fruiting when they are between 10 and 30 years of age. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and in quantity as a crop, they can also be grown in the home garden. Special attention to pollination, disease/pest vigilance, and pruning may be required for the trees to thrive and fruit in the home environment. Although apple fruit trees produce … tree for the home garden that is smaller than its commercial counterpart. Apple trees produce best fruiting when they are between 10 and 30 years of age. …
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… Will my plants recover? A: Many plants are showing signs of distress this year due to the drought and extreme temperatures. Scorch, browning of leaves, leaf drop, and premature … will be a wait-and-see situation. It’s not too late to improve your trees’ and shrubs’ chances for survival. When rainfall is less than 1 inch per week, provide supplemental water weekly into … their chance of optimum growth. Pruning at the right time of the year also goes a long way to maintaining good health of your trees and shrubs. …
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… decorative-shaped blooms appear on a smallish plant (2.5 feet in height) from midsummer up to the first hard frost. This nonhardy bulb flowers best in moderately moist, fertile, well-drained soils in full sun. …
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… This tall (70’) tree is found only in central and west China. Its needles are blue-green. Due to its rarity, it is seldom seen in private gardens. It will do best in a sunny location with well-drained soil. …
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… Trail is a clump-forming shrub that produces white flowers in the spring that are attractive to butterflies. It reaches a maximum height of 4 feet under full sun to partial shade with moderate moisture conditions. It is best used as a specimen or in a hedge. …
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… early? We have an old apple tree on our property that produces pocked, rotten apples. Is there way we can help the tree produce edible fruit? A. Some fruit trees will naturally thin themselves … Often, a period of stress (a long, hot summer with very little rain) will cause a tree to abort its fruit in order to conserve energy. Apple trees require deep watering during drought. … active growth, but only if the temperature is 40 degrees with no danger of freezing or rain for the next 24 hours. Dormant oils are often used on other deciduous trees since they are quite …
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… light shade. It has a mature size of 5 feet high and 4 feet wide and is hardy in USDA Zones 5 to 9. The red-bronze flowers emerge rather late in the fall. The dry fall foliage and flowers are … species has done so well that some cultivars are invasive, particularly Purpurascens. It's best to look for late-flowering clones that will not have time to set seed. It is resistant to deer. …
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… the foliage that steals the show. In the shade garden, Rodgersias give you a bold counterpoint to the delicate airy foliage common to so many shade plants in our area. The leaves of certain varieties can be 2 feet long, giving … and not reliably, at least in our climate. The drama's in the foliage. Give them time to get established, dappled sun, and consistent moisture, and they'll thrive. …
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