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How to Grow: Magnolia

Learn about magnolia trees and shrubs, including varieties and how to plant and grow them. Listen to Podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Magnolia Magnolia spp and hybrids Other Name Many types Sun Requirements full sun, part sun Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Early spring with white, pink or yellow flowers Mature Height x Spread 15 to 35 feet x 10 to 30 feet Added Benefits deer resistant When you say, magnolias, you normally think of movies like 'Gone with the Wind' with the classic, evergreen, southern magnolias. But magnolias are a...

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How to Grow: Maples

Acer spp, culitvars and hybrids Other Name Many types   Sun Requirements Full sun, part sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Grown mostly for its stature and vibrant, yellow, orange, and red fall leaf colors   Mature Height x Spread 30 to 70 feet x 30 to 50 feet   Added Benefits native, fall color, drought tolerance, deer resistant   People travel from around the world to see the fall foliage colors of New England and the maple is one of the primary trees making this display so amazing. This native tree has many variations. I...

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Fruit Trees

How to Grow: Mulberries

Learn about growing mulberry trees, including varieties and how to plant and grow them. Listen to Podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Mulberries We mostly know mulberries from the children’s nursery rhyme. Many gardeners avoid them because mulberries can grow up to 50 feet tall and the black fruits can stain walkways and houses. That’s a shame, because by selecting different varieties you can have a mulberry tree that stays manageable and is non-staining. The fruits have the flavor of a sweet blackberry and are good in pies, juiced,...

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How to Grow: Nut Bushes

Learn how to grow various nut bushes and trees. Listen to Podcast: Sometimes it's good to get a little nuts about gardening. Nut trees and bushes are great landscape plants providing shade, screening, food and shelter for wildlife and delicious nuts for us, too! Yes, many nut trees are slow growing, but they're landscape legacies. Maybe you or your children won't enjoy the 70 foot tall walnut tree, but you're leaving behind a tree for future generations to appreciate. So what nuts can we grow in Vermont? Surprisingly a lot. Black walnut...

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How to Grow: Oaks

Quercus spp   Other Name common oak   Sun Requirements Full sun, part sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Grown mostly for its stature and attractive reddish-purple fall foliage   Mature Height x Spread 40 to 90 feet x 40 to 60 feet   Added Benefits fall color, native, drought tolerant   Like the maple tree, the oak defines our forest and landscape. These huge, stately trees are long-lived and much desired as shade trees and for wildlife. Like many children, I remember hanging a swing from the lower, large limbs of a white oak...

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Fruit Trees

How to Grow: Paw Paw

Learn about growing this unusual tree in your yard with its tropical-like fruit. Listen to podcast: Okay, just call me a sucker for fruit. I drink fruit smoothies for breakfast and drool over durians and dragon fruits in Asian Markets. To no surprise, my wife Wendy and I are planting a fruit orchard at our new home. Yes, we'll have pears, plums, cherries and peaches. But what I'm really excited about is growing paw paws. With a name like paw paw how can you not like this fruit! Paw paw is a temperate climate relative of tropical fruits...

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How to Grow: Persimmon

Learn about growing persimmon trees including information on varieties for the North. Listen to podcast: On a recent trip to California I found a mango variety that's hardy to zone 4! I couldn't believe it. Oh, and what day is today? April fools! Although we still can't grow mangoes in Vermont, we can grow other exotic fruits, such as persimmon. A fully ripe, soft persimmon rivals a good mango for flavor. Varieties fall into astringent and non astringent, Asian and American categories. Most persimmons you find in the grocery store are...

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How to Grow: Phenology

  With the changing weather and climate, gardening by the calendar can be tricky, especially when you're trying to decide when to plant. But nature has a pretty reliable guide, and it's called phenology. Phenology is the study of periodic plant and animal life cycles. It shows how things in the natural world influence, and are influenced by, variations in climate and seasonal changes. What was once thought of as folklore, has now been scientifically proven to work! Many farmers and gardeners plant by the indications that are occurring...

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How to Grow: Plant a Tree

Learn how to plant your tree in this step by step process including how to dig the hole, placing the tree in the hole, watering the tree, and mulching the tree. Transcript Hi I'm Charlie Nardzzi of the National Gardening Association. Today I'd like to talk to you about how to plant trees and shrubs. Fall is the perfect time to plant deciduous trees and shrubs in most parts of the country. The cool air and short days stimulate the leaves to drop, but the warm soil provide great conditions for tree roots to grow. By  planting in fall your...

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Garden Design & Care Shrubs Trees

How to Grow: Planting Shrubs

  Frugal folks will enjoy the fact that, come fall, any trees and shrubs that you plan to plant are probably on sale at most garden stores and nurseries! And fall is the practical time to plant them, too, as the air is cool and the soil will stay warm enough for roots to start getting established. The old way of doing this is dig a hole, put in the shrub, water it and be done. But his year, gardening experts have come forth with some new recommendations on how to plant your trees, including pruning the roots, to help ensure your tree...

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