Tree Pruning - Volume 3, When to Prune Trees in...
"When is the best time to prune trees?'' This is one of the most common questions I get asked. The truth is there aren't many timing concerns for tree pruning in the Austin area. Let's start with the most common mistake I hear people make about when to prune trees in Austin, Texas. You cannot adapt rules from other climates to Austin. If you go to the north east part of the country there are important guidelines. There, dormant season is long and the trees are much taller. This means that bigger trees have less time to get all their growth cycles done. During the spring and fall months, trees in these northern areas have intense sap flows. Pruning during these times will lead to bleeding wounds...
Tree Pruning in Austin is complicated by many factors. There are several subjects that should be examined such as when to prune, what to prune and how to prune. In this article I'm going to focus on why to prune trees and what factors relate specifically to Austin. Health, cosmetics and safety make up the meat of the formula I use to understand why you should prune your trees. Let's start with pruning for tree health. Most everybody loves trees; we want them to live long and prosper. Just like your doctor can prescribe you exercises and eating habits that will help you live longer, tree pruning can add to the overall life expectancy of a tree; as long as the pruning is done right. In Austin, we have...
r gardening can be an extremely rewarding hobby. But it is a hobby that requires work and dedication. Following a few flower gardening tips will ensure that you enjoy yourself, product a healthy flower garden, and that you avoid any harm to natural ecosystems. The most important first step in starting your flower garden is to figure out where you want to do your planting. If you decide to plant in a container, then you can pretty much create the soil conditions you need for the majority of plants, though there will always be some plants that will not be able to grow in your area because of temperature or sun exposure conditions. If you choose to plant in your yard, you should first do a soil test...
Butterfly Garden Landscapes - Gardening...
Butterflies are some of the most beautiful and graceful insects to embellish our gardens. Luckily, it's easy to attract these gentle beauties to your garden, if you know how to create butterfly garden landscapes that encourage their growth and development. Color Different types of butterflies are attracted to different colors, so it makes sense to plant a variety of flowers in your garden to attract the most butterflies. For example, try planting purple cone flowers, yellow black-eyed Susans, red hibiscus, and blue lilacs and lavender to attract different types of butterflies to your butterfly garden. Butterflies love butterfly bush and daylilies, rosemary and marigolds, too, so you see how you can...
Beginner Flower Gardening Tips
Would you like to have a green thumb but are afraid yours may be black? Perhaps you tried to plant a flower garden and where less then thrilled with how it turned out? The following tips will help those that have little experience in flower gardening to grow a garden that they will be delighted with and enjoy showing off. Watering your flower garden is a very important part of raising healthy plants. Figuring out exactly how much water that your flower garden will need can be a difficult thing to determine. While you don't want to over water your flowers, you don't want to neglect them, either. Flowers should be watered lightly so that they don't sustain any damage. Light watering will also simulate...
Winter Gardening Tips That Will Save Your Garden
Gardening in winter throws up all sorts of new challenges no matter where you live in the world. From the tropics to the Arctic the changes that take place in plant physiology make it a sure bet that the home gardener will need to do something different to help the plans through this difficult time. The major problem in winter is that the liquid inside the plant cells will freeze in subzero conditions, damaging the cell beyond repair and eventually leading to its death. On a broad scale this can kill the plant or at least stunt its growth significantly all render it useless. There are plenty of things you can do to protect your garden from heavy frosts. Its plant requires a slightly different...
5 Tomato Plant Pruning Tips
Pruning can be an important part of your tomato growing experience and is something that you should certainly learn to do correctly. You won't always need to prune. Most determinate varieties can do without it. However if you grow tomatoes for any length of time you will almost certainly find yourself in a situation where pruning becomes important. So here are 5 tips that will get you started in pruning your tomatoes correctly. 1) Why we prune: This is the most important tip. We only prune to; increase the survival of the plant, focus the energy of the plant or top the plant at the end of the season. Let's look at these reasons more closely. 2) Increasing Survival: This comes down to two tasks...
Starting a Garden - Backyard Gardening Tips For...
Starting a garden for the first time can be an overwhelming experience. Here are some general tips for making your backyard gardening adventure a success: Decide what to grow. Before choosing your backyard gardening location, decide what you want to grow. Understanding the lighting and temperature needs of your individual plants can help you plant your crops in an optimum location. For example, if you are growing peppers and tomatoes, you will need a sunnier, warmer location than if you are growing lettuce and greens. Grow your crops in season. Before starting your garden, determine the crops' optimum season. Don't try to grow "cool crops" such as lettuce, chard, radishes, and peas during the heat...
You can influence the value of your property by eliminating risk, costs or improving the visual appeal of your property. For example, we have found that there are seven main reasons people call us in to help with their tree care. • Avoid damage to your property. This is a risk in dry weather as well as in windy, wintery weather. • Improve the view from your home by removing overhanging branches. If you have a potentially great view, what better way to increase the value of your home? • Gain extra light in your house or garden This is especially so with tree topping or thinning out the branches. • Extend the life of your tree Pruning trees allows more light and air...
Pruning Trees And Shrubs - One Mistake You Must...
For people used to gardening in regions where the winters are freezing cold, the question of when to prune trees and shrubs is thought of more or less in the following terms. Deciduous plants, that is those that drop their leaves in the fall, being hardy to cold, should be pruned during their seasonal dormancy, i.e. the winter, whereas evergreen trees and shrubs, excluding conifers, to the extent that it is possible to grow them at all in cold climates, are not touched until the spring, or at least until all possibility of frosts has passed. It is also known by many home gardeners and presumably by all professional ones, that pruning deciduous plants in the spring can be highly detrimental to the...
Tips For Achieving A Landscape Garden Effect...
Landscape gardening can help make your garden look better in many ways. While landscaping your garden may involve working to prevent topsoil erosion and weed prevention. Garden landscaping also presents many opportunities to improve the look and feel of your garden in many different ways. From basic garden design and layout, to a full landscape gardening project. One of the simplest ways to achieve a basic landscape gardening effect is to make use of border edging. There are many selections of border edging you can use in your landscape gardening projects, and they can include concrete, plastic, aluminium, tubing and brick borders. You can use just one type or mix and match to make your garden even...
Peach Tree Pruning
Hello there to all I'm writing a short article here on peach, cherry, prune, and nectarine pruning. There are many people that have fruit trees in their back yards and I would like to explain how to prune the trees the right way. If you just plant a peach tree you want to prune that tree right from the beginning. If you just plant a peach tree you want to prune that tree right from the beginning. Well if you have cut the tree down to 3ft tall and leave 4 main limbs and cut the limbs to 50% of the length then you have a good start there. With cherry trees when first time planting do the same and count tree too 3 ft tall. The cherry trees when planted push out new limbs in the year to come then the...
Organic Gardening Tips - How To Keep Your...
Organically grown plants have gotten quite popular in the last few years. Almost every gardening enthusiast is shifting onto the organic method due to the wide spreading awareness about the quality of flowers and vegetables that it results in. Go organic and your flowers will bloom with a new found hue and the vegetables will taste like never before! With its rising popularity, the organic gardening tips are finding a huge market and almost every other big publishing house is banking upon to opportunity by coming up with guides to help the ever-eager gardeners. Organic gardening is a very relaxing as well as involving hobby. Just with little help, anyone can produce tasty fruits, vegetables and...
Young Tree Pruning - Handout For Seminar
Pruning Young Trees Part 1: Understanding tree growth and structure Most of the trees that are planted in our urban forests are grown from nurseries. Trees tend to be pruned to remove lower branches and develop a full upper canopy. While this provides a great looking tree it is not structurally the best design for long term health and structure. In nature, trees have lots of lower branches as they develop. These lower branches provide energy to the lower trunk so that the diameter and strength of the trunk are greater. In addition, nursery grown trees often have their tops tipped back to encourage a fuller canopy. The problem with tipping back the top is that it destroys the central leader of the...
Most guidelines for tree pruning are built around the idea that all trees already have good health/structural-integrity and have good growing conditions. Well, let me tell you this is not normally the case. Many tree trimming calls I go on here in Austin, Texas require creative techniques to help the tree fit inside its urban environment. The main topic I really want to discuss here is tree topping. The standard rule for this is don't do it. Tree topping is usually not a good tree trimming technique. We're talking about cutting the ends off the branches of the tree. I'm 100% positive that trees don't grow limbs so we can have something to cut, and I'm 100% positive that the leaves on the ends of...