Tribune Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden ...

GARDENING experts have revealed that 2025 is all about bright colours and “joyful” flower beds. Instead of more naturalistic ...

To grow bare root trees, prune damaged roots ... Traditionally, gardeners look for landscaping ideas in summer and spring.

Are you planting trees for a fruit orchard, shade, or privacy? If you are, you'll face an inevitable dilemma when buying the saplings: whether to buy bare-root or potted trees. At a glance, bare ...

damp place without any soil around their roots until they can be planted again in early spring. How is this better than a tree sold in a container? One, bare root plants have more root mass. Their ...

“I prefer planting bare-root fruit trees rather than ... tree or fruit damage from any potential late-spring freezes.” How to plant fruit trees Before planting, knock off the soil around ...

To ensure a productive tree, nurseries attach part of one tree to another recommended for growing ... a container or bare-rooted. In both cases look for well-developed fibrous roots.

Winter pruning compensates for breeding of fruit trees which now produce fruit that is too unnaturally abundant and heavy for ...