Deeply Rooted

This time I’m giving you the good news first: the Northern Gold Forsythia is a beautiful, yellow flowering bush that is fully hardy.

This is a small spirea by all standards. It only stands 12 to 15 inches tall. It is a 3rd generation seedling of the Goldflame spirea. It is smaller than the grandparent plant, more compact and has a little more vibrance in the leaf color.

During the Christmas season my thoughts naturally turned towards the Christmas story for blog inspiration.

Want to hear some bible stories about odd plant behaviour? They will probably miss the main point of the story, but I found them fascinating anyway.

I remember walking around my dad’s nursery when I was a teenager, helping out and getting distracted at the same time when I spotted a tree I had seen there before but had never really seen it for what it was. Black Walnut.

Now that the snow has come and it feels like winter, we might as well talk about winter hardiness. We are often asked if we sell plants that are not comfortable with our lower temperatures.

Do you know what really is the pits? When people say they are going to do something I never do. So here I am, with the long-awaited part three to this series.

Heavy, wet snow load is changing columnar trees into weeping trees this fall!

Tent worms, army worms and canker worms. We often hear and use these names interchangeable for a very similar issue. There is a web full of caterpillars forming on your tree.

Does it seem to you like the fall colours are a little more vivid this year? I think they are.