Flowering apricot trees offer spectacular flowering blooms earlier than any other flowering tree, sometimes blooming as early as January. This early flowering can result in cold weather damage in some areas of the United States. New outstanding cultivars of flowering apricot trees can be purchased from mail order nursery retailers. Prunus mume flowers, in early spring with flower colors of red, pink, and white, all blooming on the same twigs of the tree. Double flowers of apricot, dark-red cover…
Click Here to Read More …
Plant Guide #18478…. Growing Acid-Loving Plants
Growing azaleas, rhododendrons, blueberries, holly, pieris, heather, and other plants that love acidic and organics soils.
One of my fond memories of being 12 was catching my first shad. Each spring the shad migrate up the Delaware River to end their life long journey to spawn. Their migration is like clockwork, arriving exactly on time, like the swallows of Capistrano each year. In many ways so are the flowers and buds on plants. I remember my…
Click Here to Read More …
For centuries, individuals have enjoyed the elegance and splendor of the garden gazebo. A garden gazebo is a great way to add a vantage point to look out upon your garden. It also adds a peaceful place from which you can really enjoy your life, and your garden.
Careful planning is required before deciding on a gazebo for your garden. Depending upon the region you live in, the material used for the gazebo construction is a very important option to consider. Most garden gazebos come in pine or ced…
Click Here to Read More …
There has been many people from the Doylestown Pa area planting the Dawn Redwoods. So I thought I would write this article to help you learn about this great tree.
Okay campers: This tree proves that scientists don't know when a tree is extinct. Fossil records showed that this tree was extinct for 35 million years, yet this deciduous conifer fooled them all until 1945 when it was rediscovered in a remote valley of Central China in 1945. Dawn Redwood or The Dinosaur Tree, is offically called, "Me…
Click Here to Read More …
Landscapers Choice: The Green Giant Arborvitae
Our farm, Highland Hill Farm, is located in the solid clay soils so common to Doylestown, Bucks County Pa. These soils are similar to those found in NJ where many of of customers are located. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the arborvitae, the Green Giant, the Western Redcedar Tree, or botanically, the Thuja Plicata, is our favorite. Here is why:
The hardiness zone the Gree…
Click Here to Read More …
