… EMPEROR™ ginkgo is a seedless selection with a strong central leader and an attractive branching pattern. This will be a large tree suitable for a shade tree or a garden centerpiece. It is also one of the most pollution-tolerant trees and works well in the city. It has the typical ginkgo outstanding golden yellow fall color and is drought tolerant. Due to its beautiful fan shaped leaves that resemble a maidenhair fern …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… CRESCENDO™ is a sugar maple cultivar selected for its excellent drought tolerance, durable dark green … tree that can reach a height of 45 feet and a width of 35 feet when mature. The sugar maple is an excellent shade tree for lawns and parks. Tiny yellowish-green flowers appear in spring … the leaves emerge. The tree's winged fruit, or samaras, mature in the fall. Autumn color is highly variable, ranging from yellow or orange to red, but it is always outstanding. One of …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Red Delicious apple is one of the most beloved American apples. Its sweet flavor makes it an enjoyable eating apple and its 12 month keeping capacity means that it is available almost year round. This variety originated in Iowa in the 19th century. The difference between apples and crabapples is the size of the fruit. If the fruit is 2” or greater, it is considered an apple; if less than …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Comspur Arkblack apple tree is a compact tree that produces abundant fruiting spurs, so a relatively small tree an bear a … Arkansas black apples, a tart variety that originated in Arkansas in the 19th century and is used for eating, cooking, and cider. The difference between apples and crabapples is the size of the fruit. If the fruit is 2 inches or greater, it is considered an apple; if less …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Jonadel apple is a cross between the Jonathan and Delicious apples developed by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station in the 1920s. It is reported to have the eating and cooking qualities of the Jonathan combined with the longer storage capability of the Delicious. p> The difference between apples and crabapples is the size of the fruit. If the fruit is 2 inches or greater, it is considered an apple; if less …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. I read that good lawn maintenance involves aeration. Exactly what is this and when should it be done? A. Aeration is a process that creates openings in turf to reduce thatch and help with water infiltration, nutrient absorption, and air movement to roots. It is often done to improve heavily compacted soil. There are three different types of turf …
Type: Plant Info
… Dwarf English yew 'Amersfoort' is a strikingly different looking yew. It prefers full or part sun, with moderate moisture and is hardy to USDA zone 5. Its un-yew like foliage has unusually short dense flat dark green needles 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length. Mature size is 8 feet high by 5 feet wide, with open branching. It is a unique specimen plant that adds …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This tree is a dense, conical to narrow-pyramidal evergreen tree that is native to much of the northern and eastern parts of North American. Scale-like, aromatic … mature branches and trunks. It prefers moist, well-drained loams in full sun to part shade. It is not fussy about soil pH but is intolerant of dry conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Red Dwarf Tree fern is a non-flowering evergreen fern which is native to Brazil and is hardy to USDA Zone 9. It grows to a height of 6 feet in partial to full shade and consistently …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Hedge Maple is native to most of Europe (in Scotland, it is the only native maple) and has been naturalized in North America and New Zealand. It is a slow grower and has deeply fissured, cork-like bark. The leaves have five, blunt, rounded …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
