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winter landscaping

    Misc Trees

    The Immortal Evergreen

    By David Beaulieu | February 10, 2017

    How are the plants in your yard looking these days? If you live in the North, as I do, your deciduous trees and shrubs are probably pretty bare. My sweetgum tree, viburnum shrubs and spirea shrubs were some of the last holdouts. Even my neighbor’s Bradford pear tree, always one of the last to give up the struggle, has shed the remainder of its tardy but oh-so-brilliant fall foliage. But not all is lost — well, not if you’ve had…

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  • Landscape Design

    Landscaping with Trees: Adding Contrasting Color

    This landscape design for trees and shrubs will add contrasting early spring color. This free do-it-yourself tree and shrub landscape design provides a show of spring flowers highlighted by an evergreen backdrop of the Green…

    By JOEL T. PARKER JR. ASLA RLA LEED AP | February 10, 2011
  • Misc Trees

    Bone Up on Your Evergreens!

    It’s easy to ignore evergreens when the yard is loaded with flowers. Often called the “bones” of the landscape, some evergreens are about as sexy during the summer as just that — bones. The…

    By David Beaulieu | January 6, 2011