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PLANT NATIVE TREES, SHRUB FOR BEST RESULTS

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: After deciding to plant trees and shrubs this spring, the next question is which kind. With Iowa's extremes in climate, the best choice is to go native. Using native trees and shrubs from an Iowa grown nursery is the best

Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News

Roadside tree, shrub, and groundcover planting guidelines.(North Carolina)

North Carolina's state highway system is known for its beautiful roadside vegetation, including extensive wildflower plantings. The plantings are designed for practical purposes as well; grasses and legume covers provide erosion control, and trees and shrubs reduce mowing requirements. The state

Publication: Public Works

NURSERY GROWS TREES, SHRUB, GRASSES

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. (AP) -- The seedling trees and shrubs being gently lifted out of the beds at the U.S. Forest Service's J. Herbert Stone Nursery this month represent a new kind of reforestation. A decade ago, the 311-acre nursery grew just two kinds of trees: Douglas fir and ponderosa pine to

Publication: The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)

GET A JUMP ON SPRING BY PLANTING IDEAS FOR TREES AND SHRUBS

Heavy snow cover each day and bitter-cold west winds prompt Shelley's inspirational poetic line: "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" That is what Erie County Soil and Water Conservation District folks have in mind as they begin their annual Conservation Tree & Shrub Seedling Program. Each

Publication: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)

DEC ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR TREES, SHRUB SEEDLINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is selling tree and shrub seedlings for conservation plantings. The program, which runs through May, offers low-cost seedlings for conservation plantings on public and private lands. The DEC-operated Tree Nursery in Saratoga Springs produces more

Publication: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)

RIGHT TREES, SHRUBS CAN WITHSTAND WISCONSIN WINTER.(Daybreak)

Winter can be tough on Wisconsin's trees and shrubs. Low temperatures, rapid temperature changes, winter desiccation and the weight of ice and snow can damage vulnerable trees and shrubs. Woody plants gradually acclimate to cold temperatures. Cold-hardiness is initiated by decreasing day length and

Publication: The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)

TREES, SHRUBS SEEK OWNERS FOR A VERITABLE GROWTH INDUSTRY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: ERIN DUGGAN Staff writer Fledgling trees and shrubs are arriving in the Capital Region this month, looking for new soil to call home so they can begin cleaning the air, curbing erosion and providing food and shelter for wildlife. But plantings are down this year by 40 percent in the Capital

Publication: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)

Trees, shrubs have purpose

Mike Allen - Tree Care A reader of my Tree Care articles called and asked why I focus the content of my articles on problems with trees and shrubs rather than the benefits? The reader's point is well taken. In my business, when there are no perceived problems with trees or shrubs in the yard, I do

Publication: Winnipeg Free Press

Fall is prime time to plant trees, shrubs

Most gardening experts have heard this question dozens of times: "When is the best time to plant trees and shrubs?" And most of the inquiring gardeners get this reply: "Whenever you can get a shovel into the ground." With the techniques used by many commercial growers today, that response has as

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times

Trees, shrubs beautify the winter landscape

The first lecture I heard on "winter interest in the garden" left me skeptical. "Not my season. Not that interested. I'm shutting it down and staying inside," I thought. Back then I was a vegetable and flower gardener, hadn't learned my shrubs and trees, and probably hadn't learned to use my eyes

Publication: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)