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1. Winter Pruning promotes growth in spring – the remaining branches on your Tree will benefit from fewer branches, using more water, nutrients and space. 2. Without foliage, you can see! So much easier to see clearly at this time...
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Most all of us are familiar in some way with these stately, magnificent and beautiful trees. Sugar Maples have defined traditional small towns throughout the Northeast since the early settlers arrived. Even today, these native trees line the streets of...
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5 Things I Know For Sure About Selecting A Fast-Growing Tree Written by Bower & Branch Founder, Don Eaton People often ask me what tree they should plant if they want a fast-growing tree. And I understand where they’re coming...
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Each kind of tree has its own personality. Red Oak is confident, strong, and independent. Corkscrew Willow is quirky and fun-loving. Crimson Queen Japanese Maple is sophisticated. Magnolias, in their countless forms, also have unique personalities. Some are flirty while others are more demure. Some are impulsive...
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Birches as a group are fast growing and easy to care for landscape trees. They are generally grown in a multi trunk form referred to as a clump. This form mimics how they appear in nature. There are a number...
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THREE CHEERS FOR THE RED, WHITE, AND GREEN Before Americans saluted the Red, White, and Blue, we waved the Red, White, and Green! The green on our flag took the form of a White Pine Tree. This fact reveals how...
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If you’re ready to impress your friends and family with some tree facts, you’ve landing on the perfect page. We went to our growers and asked them for some of their favorites and we’ve compiled them here for you in...
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Are you ready to learn how to plant a tree? Proper Planting Depth Is Key to a Long-Lived Tree! Trees Are Often Planted Too Deep If the Tree you’ve planted looks like a telephone pole, it’s going to have problems...
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Gentle giants – The American Elm Story It is with a great deal of nostalgia and a heavy heart that we look back at the days when kids rode their bikes down streets lined with majestic American Elm Trees. Most of...
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AMERICAN BEECH – FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA American Beech is possibly our country’s most elegant forest tree. The great American Beech is a Native Tree from Maine to Florida – to Eastern Texas north to Michigan and into southern Ontario Canada. American Beech is believed...
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