Over the years, my father has planted innumerable trees – blue spruce, Japanese maple, dogwood, crabapple, catalpa, ginkgo, birch, all sorts of fruit-bearing trees, and pines galore. You name it, he’s ...

Michael Greenstein, president of Kusamura Bonsai Club, shows his elephant bush bonsai in Los Altos on March 28, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. In a Los Altos backyard, there is a redwood tree ...

Basket plants don't necessarily need pruning except to keep their size manageable. To prune, trim ends before the leaf node; ...

Is the Sitka spruce a friend or foe? Irish sawmills require at least 2.7m cubic metres of sawlog material approx. Coillte currently supply in the region of 1.5m cubic metres therefore the balance ...

Pruning changes the form and growth of a plant. Pruning can also be considered preventive maintenance for both insect and disease damage. Many problems may be prevented by pruning correctly during the ...

As with containers, plant bougainvillea so that the top of the root ball is level with the surrounding soil. Regular pruning and seasonally adjusting watering and feeding are key to success with ...