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6 Keys to Effective Fall Pruning

by Ruth S. Foster | Sep 6, 2018 | HowTo, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

The path outside my window is thinly dappled with small brown leaves. The last I noticed it was in spring when it was completely carpeted with white cherry blossoms. The Japanese consider a carpet of flower petals a treasured joy of the spring garden, even though it...

It’s Time to Ready your Lawn: Spring is Coming –– Really

by Ruth S. Foster | Mar 16, 2015 | HowTo, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

One day, we will awaken and the snow will finally be off the lawn and the terrace. It seems to have been, the longest, coldest, white winter in memory, but spring will come. (Mother Nature, are you listening?) I have read that we have a new weather pattern, the...

Winter Tree Pruning Do’s and Don’ts

by Ruth S. Foster | Jan 24, 2014 | HowTo, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

In January, the winter is cold and bleak. One looks out and sees stark trees, leafless and bare. The urban forest is all around us. And as each tree in it bares its soul. it tells us of its vigor to survive.We watch these woods fill up with snow. It bends big...

It’s Always the Weather

by Ruth S. Foster | May 24, 2013 | HowTo, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

In the garden, it’s the weather that always rules. Every year there is a week in May when the world is ablaze with flowers, but this year something is different.I think it it is the dogwoods (Cornus florida}. I have not seen them bloom like this so...

When Mother Nature Prunes with a
Big Snowstorm

by Ruth S. Foster | Feb 13, 2013 | HowTo, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

When Mother Nature does the pruning, her saw is the delicate white snowflakes that fall so softly. But they pack a big punch, for she really is the iron hand in the velvet glove.Storms are this old Ma’s way of pruning and she barely lifts a finger. An unfeeling...

For Your Safety, Look Over Your Trees in Winter

by Ruth S. Foster | Jan 18, 2013 | HowTo, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

Winter is the time of year to look to your trees. Are they safe and sturdy? Or are they hazardous? In my town, a child was killed in his driveway by a branch that fell.What does hazardous mean exactly? Are there big dead or dying branches that could fall on the...

6 Keys to Effective Fall Pruning

It’s Time to Ready your Lawn: Spring is Coming –– Really

Winter Tree Pruning Do’s and Don’ts

It’s Always the Weather

When Mother Nature Prunes with a
Big Snowstorm

For Your Safety, Look Over Your Trees in Winter

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6 Keys to Effective Fall Pruning

It’s Time to Ready your Lawn: Spring is Coming –– Really

Winter Tree Pruning Do’s and Don’ts

It’s Always the Weather

When Mother Nature Prunes with aBig Snowstorm

For Your Safety, Look Over Your Trees in Winter

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When Mother Nature Prunes with a
Big Snowstorm