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Technique Tips: Pruning Weeping Mulberry

Oh, what a tangled web we weave… when we don’t know how to prune a weeping mulberry (Morus alba ‘Pendula’). You can see this popular weeping standard tree all over the city – and when not wearing its cloak of green, the tangled, haystack-headed results of improper pruning are onl buy chloroquine online pelmeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/chloroquine.html no […]

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Ice Formations: Winter Inflorescence

  We take our garden “blooms” where we can in winter. No, I’m not talking flowers. Pollinators, please stay tucked in your nests, we’re not ready for you yet. I was captivated by these ice covered branches on a recent walk in Ashbridges Bay Park. This is a different sort of blooming, the cold, har […]

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Tree profile: Callery Pear

Walking around the neighbourhood on a grey November day, you can’t help but not buy cialis super force online waynegeneralhospital.org/home-health/html/cialis-super-force.html no prescription pharmacy ice that the Callery pear (Pyrus calle buy bimatoprost online waynegeneralhospital.org/home-health/html/bimatoprost.html no prescription pharmacy ryana) is the only light on the street. Look at that! The rest of the trees are denuded, […]

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Anthropomorphic Trees

Tree creatures. Walking in a park by the lake a few weeks ago I snapped this picture of a tree base that I instantly labelled, “Tree Feet”. Helen’s been writing a lot about trees lately and it has made me think about how I’ve felt about trees in my life. Trees were only one of […]

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Quest for Quercus

My wish list contains an oak tree. Not a Northern red oak (Quercus rubra) like this majestic beauty in the park nearby,  but a scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea). Scarlet oaks grow on dry, sandy uplands. That sounds just like my garden! And the colour the leaves produce in fall is said to be an even […]

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The mystery of the unfallen leaves

All the trees on the street are usually bare before my next door Norway mapl buy topamax online healthempire.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/topamax.html no prescription pharmacy e (Acer platanoides) drops its leaves. Look here; it’s still green, in this picture taken yesterday. It doesn’t matter if I rake. The day before the first big snow, this guy typically buy […]

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Summer leftover: Asian-inspired garden

While doing the initial scoring for the East York Blooming Contest, I saw some high-scoring gardens that didn’t make it into the final round, including this Asian-inspired front garden. The tall tree is a standard form of weeping mulberry (Morus alba ‘Pendula’). In horticulture, standard doesn’t mean “run of the mill”, but refers to the […]

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Lust List: Paperbark Maple

My ever-unrequ online pharmacy buy clomiphene with best prices today in the USA ited love affair with paperbark maple (Acer griseum) intensifies when seeing it in its fall regalia. Hates drought, they say. Well with the somewhat hefty online pharmacy buy biltricide with best prices today in the USA price of this tree, that makes […]

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Mulching leaves: Mowers, not just for lawns

This is one reason why I wish I had an electric lawn mower: to chop autumn leaves into bite-sized, easily composted pieces. This is a trick you can use now. My rickety, ancient push mower (all I can justify for my narrow strip buy cialis super force online dschnur.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/cialis-super-force.html no prescription pharmacy of grass, which […]

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Our urban forest: Life and death of a tree

When my son came across this circa-1928 image in the Toronto archives, I realized how much we take our urban forest for granted. This is a picture of the school across the street, taken from what is no buy advair online doctorsquarters.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/advair.html no prescription pharmacy w our front lawn. And here is how the same […]

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