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Welcoming Entries with a ‘Weeping Habit’

What welcoming plants can you select to make your front entrance more inviting? Try a plant with a weeping habit! These plants will create a spectacular welcome for friends or family as they arrive at your front door. The ‘Sweetspire’ is a naturally weeping plant that produces finger-like panicles of...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-19-2009
Can Citrus Trees Be Grown Cooler Areas?

Citrus trees require warm temperatures to grow, and are typically found in the southern regions of the United States. There are many areas that achieve warm enough temperatures in the summer to sustain citrus fruit. The problem is that these trees are very sensitive to cool temperatures. They simply...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bryan-nhn on 10-19-2009
How to Make a Shade Garden Look Great

When planning a shade garden, you need to focus not only on color, but think of texture as well. Remember that foliage can be just as colorful as flowers and last longer too. There are so many shades of green, such as variegated with white or silver that reflects light and gives the garden a feeling...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-03-2009
Hazelnut Cross Pollination

Hazelnut trees are popular landscape plant due to their bushy form. They work great for privacy, they have a beautify coloring of yellow and orange in the fall, and they have the potential to produce a tasty, edible nut. Hazelnut can also be referred to as filberts , cob nuts, or Lombardy nuts. If you...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bryan-nhn on 09-30-2009
What is a Spicebush?

The Spicebush, Lindera bezoin, is a native deciduous shrub with a broad, rounded habit which typically grows 6-12' high. Clusters of tiny, aromatic, greenish-yellow flowers bloom along the branches in early spring before the foliage emerges. They bloom in March and April. The Spicebush has thick...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-30-2009
Beautiful Camellia Tree (Camellia sasanqua)

When planning your landscape design , you may want to incorporate a combination of flowering trees and shrubs , along with shade and ornamental trees . The Camellia Ornamental Tree/Shrub is a gorgeous plant to consider! It is a beautiful upright, densely branched tall shrub with a pyramidal to oval shape...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 09-20-2009
Balsam Fir information

Balsam Fir is a medium-sized evergreen tree generally reaching 40-60 feet in height and 1-1 1/2 feet in diameter. It exhibits a relatively dense, dark-green, pyramidal crown with a slender spire-like tip. Balsam fir has both male and female flowers on the same tree. Flowers are receptive in late May...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-09-2009
Soil quality for Healthy Oak Trees

Healthy oak trees are grown in good soils, in fact, the most important factor in growing oak trees is good soil. The type of soil determines the nutrients availability and the water holding capacity that the tree has access to. Good soils can determine how much stress the oak tree can successfully withstand...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-01-2009
Large Bear In Tree!

While this large black bear in a tree was not at my place, I could only imagine if we lived in the Smoky Mountains and had a black bear come to visit us. We recently visited Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountains and we ended up seeing so much wildlife but the bear in the tree topped all the other wildlife...

Posted to Member Gardening Photos (Gallery) by jeff-nhn on 08-26-2009
Plan Before You Plant Trees

Planning is definitely something that you will want to do before adding a tree to your yard. You want to consider more that fall color when it comes to putting a tree in near your home. It is neat to watch a seedling grow to large presence in your yard, but a little aforethought will go a long way as...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bryan-nhn on 08-24-2009

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